In his latest Forbes piece, Dylan Gans, cofounder of Baton, explores what happens when agentic AI finally shows up for Main Street. With up to $5 trillion in enterprise value on the line as Baby Boomers retire, Gans argues SMBs have long been an afterthought in the infrastructure built to support ownership transfers — and agentic AI could change that.

How does it widen the bottleneck brokers create? How does it help buyers compete against private equity-backed searchers with full deal teams? And where should it stop, before it steps on the human trust a deal actually runs on?

Read his latest piece in Forbes now for the full case, and the risks, behind this new technology.