Will Anthropic Build a ByteBell? The Startup Kill List and Why the Context Layer Is Different.
Anthropic has erased $1 trillion in SaaS market cap by absorbing entire product categories — Cowork ate project management, Design ate prototyping, Managed Agents ate orchestration. So why won't they build ByteBell? Because a model-agnostic, self-hosted knowledge graph directly conflicts with their business model. Here is the full kill list and the honest probability analysis.