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How Will AI Ads Reshape the Internet? [Ft. Nic Baird, Koah Labs]

Most AI apps treat ads as a tax on the product. Nic Baird, co-founder of Koah Labs, is betting the opposite: that at $2-3 per thousand queries, an AI app that refuses ads either paywalls its best features or dies. He tells Keith why Koah only serves an ad when it's unit-economic positive against token cost, and why relevance is the only defensible moat in this category.

Nic goes into the mechanics: how Koah generates ad copy from product data (with static images coming from the advertiser when brand control matters), why standard click attribution breaks when nobody transacts inside a chat…

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