The Harness Is the Company
A harness can be composed of adapted or task-specific sub-harnesses (with the orchestrator being called a “meta-harness”). No harness.They sell software services, but the engineers pair with agents to get the work done. Increasingly other functions like product and sales pair with agents for productivity.
- ▪A harness can be composed of adapted or task-specific sub-harnesses (with the orchestrator being called a “meta-harness”).
- ▪No harness.They sell software services, but the engineers pair with agents to get the work done.
- ▪Increasingly other functions like product and sales pair with agents for productivity.
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| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:06:56 +0000 |
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The Harness Is the CompanyWhy SaaS business is now a harness one.Shrivu ShankarAug 24, 2026234ShareEvery SaaS business will become a harness around a model, whether or not they’ve realized it yet.What even is a harness?Narrowly, folks will often associate a “harness” with frameworks like LangGraph or coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, or OpenCode, which wrap a stateless model API in enough tooling and state that you can actually get work done.I’m using the term “harness” broadly to mean all the infra, interfaces, context, and state that surround a stateless LLM. A harness can be composed of adapted or task-specific sub-harnesses (with the orchestrator being called a “meta-harness”).
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