Stratagems #5: Leo Walked Into an AI-Powered Burning House. He Walked Out With a Client.

Short summary

A CTO recognizes a payment platform's AI system failure (over-optimized config removing critical fraud middleware) and drives directly to the affected customer to pitch his company's solution, turning a competitor's crisis into a customer acquisition opportunity.

• •Leo identifies why CodeForge's AI config optimization caused ShopStream's payment outage: it removed fraud-check and compliance middleware flagged as non-routing nodes
• •Recognizes ShopStream is his company's target customer losing $210K/hour and navigates directly to them rather than through sales channels
• •Leverages deep technical credibility and pattern recognition from past system failures to position CoreStack as the solution

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