Absorbed into the model.
The lab pays $9B. The content store runs on as a compliance layer under their enterprise agent. The agent you built is dissolved into theirs within eighteen months, because the useful parts of it were learned behavior, and learned behavior moves into the weights.
You're on the board of a lab. Your old company is an API.
A clean exit at the moment the lab needed what you'd built. The store survived as plumbing; the relationship went to the lab. Not every ending in this war is a loss, but this one isn't a company.
One path that gets here
A · Ship the agent as a per-seat add-onB · Reverse. Open the store to every agent and stop pretending Box AI is the front doorB · Use the position. Your store sees every agent's request. Build the agent on top of your own gravityB · Take the lab's offer