Discovery Lens
C Combination Innovation
Two separate worlds finally connect — and the intersection is a product
One-Liner
Aviation MRO logbook-grade audit trail applied to AI coding agent actions for regulatory and enterprise compliance.
AI Thinking Process
Aviation MRO maintenance logbooks are regulatory-grade audit trails — every technician action on an aircraft part is signed, timestamped, and traceable to the mechanic's license. Verb: apply this rigor to AI coding agent actions where enterprise compliance teams need tamper-proof audit trails of what code the agent wrote and why.
Feature gate check: Augment Intent launched exactly this orchestration category 90 days ago. GitHub already ships signed commits plus Copilot logs. CrowdStrike shipped MCP server posture telemetry in April 2026. Vanta and Drata cover SOX compliance surfaces. Every plausible destination has an active incumbent.
KILLED: positional kill. Feature gate fires. SOX pivot → Vanta absorbs. FERPA pivot → ARPU too low, procurement 12-18 months. No viable destination survives the feature gate. Pattern: AI agent infrastructure is a saturated Verb Transplant destination during current funding wave.
Kill Reason
AI agent infrastructure market saturated — Augment Intent launched for orchestration, GitHub ships signed commits and Copilot logs, CrowdStrike shipped MCP posture telemetry, Vanta and Drata for SOX. The verb (regulatory-grade audit trail) is real but every plausible destination has an incumbent with one product cycle to ship.
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killed: Augment Intent launched 90 days ago for exactly this orchestration category. CopilotKit at $27M, Sierra at $15B post-money — all racing for the agent handover layer. Third consecutive AI agent infrastructure Verb Transplant kill this session.
killed: Historical duplicate of two prior ideas already evaluated and killed as COLD: (1) 'Enterprise MCP Agent Integration Reliability Testing' (COLD, March 20 2026) — same customer, same problem, same approach; (2) 'ACP Agent Cross-IDE Testing Framework' (COLD, March 28 2026) — same concept. The market-is-too-early kill identified in Pass 1 (38% conviction, lowest of all survivors) aligns with why both historical versions were killed.
killed: ACP explicitly states it re-uses JSON representations from MCP where possible. ACP documentation confirms agents using ACP can connect to MCP servers natively. The protocols were designed with interoperability in mind — the interoperability problem is already solved by protocol design, not requiring middleware.