partnership shapes · rome × leedab

Same problem from opposite ends of the market.

Rome is solving execution drift for enterprise supply chains. LeedAB is solving operational drift for SMBs, with a local-first per-customer brain. The interesting question isn't whether we overlap — it's where we trade.

rome · enterprise

Plans hold; execution drifts.

  • Multi-stakeholder supply chains
  • Live model over SAP / APS / ERP / logistics
  • Cloud, deep integration, six-figure motions
  • Suppliers, factories, carriers, customers
tier · enterprise  ·  motion · top-down
trade lane
leedab · smb

Ops drift; the brain is the fix.

  • 31-agent local-first ops system
  • Per-customer Obsidian vault as substrate
  • Manifest model + SKILL.md overrides
  • Sales, delivery, finance, HR, ops, comms
tier · smb  ·  motion · product-led + founder-led
enterprise SC depth ←——— different shape, same execution thesis ———→ SMB ops breadth, local-first

Three shapes worth a real conversation.

All three assume each side keeps its core moat. None of them require either of us to chase the other's customer.
shape · 01

Referral lanes, both directions.

The cleanest version. SMBs that outgrow LeedAB and hit real SC complexity get warm-handed to Rome. Enterprises Rome qualifies out as too small or too lightweight on infrastructure get warm-handed to us.

smb outgrows local · → · rome enterprise
rome too-small lead · → · leedab smb
rome
Captures upside. Customers you couldn't have signed at SMB scale arrive pre-qualified, two years later, at the right tier.
leedab
Removes the ceiling. Our customers don't churn the day they outgrow us — they graduate to a known partner.
shape · 02

Rome SC depth as a LeedAB skill pack.

A subset of Rome's execution agents — the ones that translate to a 50-person ops team — packaged as a skill pack inside the LeedAB manifest. Customer keeps their local brain. Rome agents call out to your live model when SC depth is needed. Revenue share on activation.

leedab manifest · ←skill-pack← · rome agents
customer brain stays local · usage routed
rome
Reach without rebuild. Your tech in front of the SMB segment without a separate product line, separate motion, separate ICP.
leedab
Depth without dilution. Customers who need SC sophistication get it without us building outside our circle of competence.
shape · 03

Joint mid-market GTM.

There's a band — call it 100 to 500-person ops orgs — that's too big for SMB tooling and too small for full enterprise SC platforms. Pre-pilot conversation: what would a joint package look like — Rome's live model + LeedAB's per-customer brain — sold as one offering with one onboarding?

rome · live SC model
leedab · per-customer brain + non-SC ops
= one offering · one onboarding · one contract
rome
New tier. A band of buyers your enterprise motion currently can't justify the CAC for.
leedab
New tier. A band of buyers our SMB motion currently can't justify the depth for.
before any of this

What we'd want to learn first.

  1. What prompted the outreach — was there something specific you saw, or is this a wider sweep across the agent ops space?Helps us calibrate which shape, if any, is the actual conversation.
  2. What's the deployment posture customers are asking you for — cloud-only, customer-VPC, on-prem?Local-first is our category. If your customers are pulling in that direction, that's probably the thread.
  3. Where does your motion struggle — top of funnel, mid-market band, post-sale expansion?Each maps to a different shape above; we'd rather solve the real one.
  4. What does "partnership" mean for you in the next two quarters — referrals, technical, GTM, capital, all four?So we can match the seriousness of our reply to the seriousness of the ask.