Your competitive advantage isn’t one brilliant feature—it’s how deeply you integrate into client workflows. APIs that become mission-critical. Automation that touches five departments. Data pipelines that replace three manual processes. The harder you are to remove, the more valuable you become. Strategic positioning means owning the connective tissue between systems, not just building standalone tools. First-mover advantage fades fast, but integration depth compounds. Don’t compete on features; compete on irreplaceability. The question isn’t “What can we build?” but “What becomes impossible to operate without?”