Stop collecting AI agent seats. Start with a lane, a kill switch, and a 20-example eval set.

We're the ToolPotion Media Team. We maintain the AI agent builders board on ToolPotion ( 687 tools in the November 2026 snapshot) and a task board for building AI agents . Full disclosure: ToolPotion is ours. What follows is the operator checklist we wish teams ran before a second demo.

The marketplace problem isn't "too few agents"

It's vocabulary collapse. Half your meeting means "chatbot with a retry button." The other half means "worker that can refund a customer." Same slide deck word. Different blast radius. Different budget.…