The Road Ahead — Competing in the MCP Economy
Every technological shift starts quietly, then becomes impossible to ignore.
The adoption curve for MCP is steepening fast — from developer experiments to enterprise pilots to full-scale production. Within months, MCP support will be an expectation, not an innovation.
This is the moment to prepare — to decide whether your company is shaping the next layer of software, or adapting to it later on someone else’s terms.
Competing in the MCP economy requires more than technical integration — it demands organizational readiness.
That means aligning leadership, engineering, and security around a shared goal: becoming discoverable, controllable, and interoperable in an AI-connected world.
Key actions for forward-thinking teams:
Audit your stack: Identify which APIs, data systems, and workflows could expose capabilities through MCP.
Establish ownership: Decide which teams govern agent access, credentials, and compliance.
Pilot early: Start with one low-risk integration. Learn how MCP behaves in your environment before your competitors do.
Engage the ecosystem: Join early adopter programs, test interoperability with partners, and contribute feedback to the evolving spec.
Signal readiness: Make your MCP capabilities public — visibility attracts integration, and integration builds defensibility.
The companies that treat MCP as infrastructure, not hype, will gain durable leverage. They’ll control the interfaces agents depend on and set the standards others build against.
➡ Take the GetReadyForMCP Assessment to benchmark where your strategy stands.
