Absorbed into the model.
The lab pays $24 billion. The record, the identity checks and the trust service licenses run on as plumbing under its business agent. The agent you built dissolves into theirs within eighteen months, because the useful parts were learned behavior, and learned behavior moves into the weights.
Prosecutor OMNI: No further questions! You were very helpful. You will be even more helpful as a dependency.
A clean exit at the moment the lab needed what you'd built. The plumbing survived; 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 · Iris in every envelope. Price the agents as an IAM add-on, on top of seatsB · Reverse. Open the agreement layer to every agent, Copilot includedB · Use the position. You witness every agent's deal. Build the agent on that recordB · Take the lab's offer