◆ Technology Rewired
How every category of software is being rebuilt by AI and agents, and what comes next.
One story per category, told in five eras: on-prem, SaaS and cloud, AI-assisted, agentic, and the next five years. Each page scores how autonomous the work is today, names who is building the agentic version, and shows how the team doing the work changes.
20 categories, 160+ software, rewired.
The Rewiring Board
Build
Protect
Run
Grow
Verticals
Agentic: agents carry work across functions on their own. Support hands to sales, sales to finance, and people approve the exceptions.
Showing Agentic era
Rings show autonomy from 0 (manual) to 5 (fully autonomous). Traces are real dependencies: software that spans two categories. In the Next era, dashed rings are my five-year projections. How scores work.
What changed this month
Technology Rewired launches with 20 categories and 10 deep dives · Oct 9, 2026
Featured deep dive
Identity and Access Management (IAM and CIAM)
Identity and access management decides who can sign in and what they can do. For twenty-five years that meant people: directories, SSO, MFA, passkeys. The shift now is to AI agents as identities in their own right, each needing its own credentials, narrow scopes, delegated authority from a human, and an audit trail that names both.
Read the five eras →Deep dives
All 20 categories
The same map as the board, as a list. Scores are today's agentic-era autonomy.
Build
The functions that make the product.
- DevOps and Platform Engineering2.5
Self-healing infra; agents run incident triage and remediation
- Software Development3.0
From writing code to reviewing agent-written code
- Collaboration and Productivity2.1
Meetings, notes, and follow-ups run themselves; status work disappears
- Data and Analytics2.3
Questions get answered in plain English; analysts own definitions and trust
- Product and Design2.0
Agents draft specs, prototypes, and research synthesis; humans own taste and tradeoffs
Protect
Security, identity, and the controls around them.
- Cybersecurity Operations2.6
Agents triage alerts and run investigations; analysts approve
- Governance, Risk and Compliance2.8
Continuous, agent-collected evidence replaces annual audits
- Identity and Access2.0
Agents become identities that need auth, scopes, and audit
- IT Operations2.3
Agents reset, provision, and fix without a ticket
Run
The back office that keeps the company going.
- Finance and Accounting2.5
Close, reconciliation, and collections run continuously
- People and HR2.0
Recruiting screens and employee onboarding run end to end
- Legal1.7
First-pass review and research move to agents; lawyers sign off
- Supply Chain and Procurement1.6
Sourcing, POs, and supplier chasing run as agent workflows; physical flow stays human-paced
Grow
Everything that finds, wins, and keeps customers.
- Customer Support and Success3.2
Tier-1 resolution moves from humans to agents; humans handle exceptions
- Marketing and Growth2.5
Content, SEO-to-GEO, and lifecycle email run by agents
- Sales and Revenue2.4
SDR work automated; CRM updates itself
- Commerce and Retail2.0
Shoppers send agents to buy; storefronts must sell to machines
Verticals
Industries with their own software stacks.
- Education1.8
Every student gets a tutor; teachers shift to coaching and assessment design
- Healthcare1.6
Agents take the paperwork; clinical judgment stays with clinicians
- Real Estate and Property1.5
Leasing, tenant requests, and loan files move to agents; the deal stays human
The cross-category shifts
- Agentic Commerce: How AI Agents Will Find, Compare, and Buy for You
- MCP for Technical Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Implementing the Model Context Protocol
- Everyone Bought AI Observability. Nobody Owns Agent Behavior.
- GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes in the Workflow (And What Does Not)
Why I am building this
I built LoginRadius, a CIAM platform, and scaled it to over a billion users, and I now run GrackerAI, a GEO platform. I have watched identity and marketing software go through every era on this board. These pieces explain the bigger pattern:
- AI Didn't Kill SaaS. It Killed the Seat.
- The Post-Agentic Organization: What Becomes Scarce When Intelligence Is Abundant
- The Hard Truths About SaaS in 2026
- Seven Patterns of Technology Failure That Repeat Across Decades
- 47 Tech Predictions, 18 Months Later: The Public Scoreboard
The arc has two bookends on this site: Tech Graveyard covers what died, Future Tech covers what comes next.