If you’ve heard of OpenClaw, Perplexity’s Personal Computer, or NVIDIA‘s new Agent Toolkit with NemoClaw, you may also know that the real power behind these tools comes from skills. Modular capabilities that tell an agent how to do a specific job.

The original bet was that enterprises would build agents and integrate them into their software and we would use them. What we are seeing is people want to create their own agents, with their own personality, memory, and context, and then connect them to skills from the systems they already use.

For enterprises, this is bigger than it sounds. These agents can sit on top of your ERP, finance platform, CRM, and project tools and finally do what we have been doing manually for years: connecting data across platforms that were never designed to talk to each other. Correlating things, producing reports, surfacing answers that used to require three people and a spreadsheet.

Some of my own agents connect HubSpot, Google Workspace, Ramp, and Jira, as well as our custom MCP servers, so I can approve an expense report from a Slack message or a voice command.

Skills as a service may be the new SaaS!

Agents-as-a-service are poised to rewire the software industry and corporate structures

Enterprise software vendors can see the agentic train coming and are quickly investing to stay ahead of it. For CIOs, the evolution of AaaS will change not just how the tools are used, but how they’re priced, integrated, and secured.