I've noticed that a lot of AI products don't stay in the category they started in.
Something launches as a tool, does one thing well, and that's the whole value proposition. Then a year later people are connecting it to other systems, building workflows around it, sharing it across teams, writing integrations for it, and depending on it for things it wasn't originally designed to do.
Looking at some of the bigger AI products today, I'm not even sure "tool" is the right word anymore.
The interesting part is that there never seems to be a clear moment where the transition happens.
People don't wake up one day and decide they're using a platform now. It just gradually becomes part of how work gets done.
For those who've seen products make that jump, what was the signal?
What made you realize something had stopped being a tool and become a platform?
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