Why MCP Protocol Alone Won't Fix AI Agents | Ayan Barua

Ampersand raised $15M to argue MCP and unified APIs alone can't make enterprise AI agents reliable enough for autonomous write-backs.

• $15M Series A: Ampersand raised $15 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners to build a translation layer connecting AI agents to enterprise systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, and NetSuite.
• Unified APIs are obsolete: CEO Ayan Barua argues standardized common-model integration (the prior era's approach) can't handle per-customer complexity now that AI makes custom code cheap to generate.

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