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The Substrate Imperative

The ARM industry has spent thirty years buying systems that record what happened and zero years building systems that learn from it. This paper makes the case for why that changes now.

What's inside

✓Why screen-level automation has a structural ceiling — and what it is
✓The difference between a workflow tool and a data substrate
✓How a substrate layer compounds in value over time in ways point solutions cannot
✓What the transition looks like for an operation already running on a legacy SOR

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