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Make the Capability Rentable: How Business Leaders Let Others Use What Their Company Does Best Without Giving Up What Makes It Valuable
What if one of your company's most valuable capabilities could create value outside your company without giving away what makes it valuable?
Every business develops capabilities that competitors cannot easily reproduce.
They may live in experienced people, proprietary data, specialized workflows, operating methods, customer knowledge, decision rules, software, machinery, relationships, or combinations of all of them.
Traditionally, those capabilities stayed inside the company.
AI is beginning to change that.
A capability can increasingly be separated from the organization that created it and made available to someone else. But making a capability usable is not the same as giving it away.
Make the Capability Rentable is about the decisions that come next.
How do you determine what another company should be allowed to use?
What must stay behind?
How do you let a customer benefit from your insight without handing over the underlying database, method, or advantage?
Who owns the improvements?
Who gets smarter from each use?
What happens when the relationship ends?
And how do you know whether a capability that works technically is actually ready for a commercial deal?
In this fourth book in the Rentable Expertise series, Alex Tran explores the supplier side of the capability economy.
You will learn how to think
identifying capabilities that may have value beyond your organization
separating the capability from the assets that make it possible
protecting data, expertise, methods, and competitive advantage
deciding what crosses the customer boundary and what stays behind
structuring learning, improvement, control, and exit
determining whether a capability deserves additional capital
recognizing when renting should eventually become owning or building
treating the commercial agreement as part of the capability itself
This is not a book about selling everything your company knows.
It is about something more
letting others use what your company does best without giving up what makes it valuable.
For CEOs, business owners, operators, executives, and P&L leaders, Make the Capability Rentable provides a new way to think about expertise, intellectual property, AI, competitive advantage, and the emerging market for business capability.
Every business develops capabilities that competitors cannot easily reproduce.
They may live in experienced people, proprietary data, specialized workflows, operating methods, customer knowledge, decision rules, software, machinery, relationships, or combinations of all of them.
Traditionally, those capabilities stayed inside the company.
AI is beginning to change that.
A capability can increasingly be separated from the organization that created it and made available to someone else. But making a capability usable is not the same as giving it away.
Make the Capability Rentable is about the decisions that come next.
How do you determine what another company should be allowed to use?
What must stay behind?
How do you let a customer benefit from your insight without handing over the underlying database, method, or advantage?
Who owns the improvements?
Who gets smarter from each use?
What happens when the relationship ends?
And how do you know whether a capability that works technically is actually ready for a commercial deal?
In this fourth book in the Rentable Expertise series, Alex Tran explores the supplier side of the capability economy.
You will learn how to think
identifying capabilities that may have value beyond your organization
separating the capability from the assets that make it possible
protecting data, expertise, methods, and competitive advantage
deciding what crosses the customer boundary and what stays behind
structuring learning, improvement, control, and exit
determining whether a capability deserves additional capital
recognizing when renting should eventually become owning or building
treating the commercial agreement as part of the capability itself
This is not a book about selling everything your company knows.
It is about something more
letting others use what your company does best without giving up what makes it valuable.
For CEOs, business owners, operators, executives, and P&L leaders, Make the Capability Rentable provides a new way to think about expertise, intellectual property, AI, competitive advantage, and the emerging market for business capability.
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Published September 10, 2026
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