For two decades, software followed a single architectural logic: build an interface, charge humans to use it. The seat was the unit of value. SaaS perfected this โ move the interface to the cloud, add monthly recurring revenue โ as explored in the shift from SaaS to agentic service models โ , watch NRR compound.
That logic breaks the moment an agent enters the picture.
An AI agent doesnโt log in. It doesnโt navigate dashboards. It doesnโt occupy a seat. It reads context, makes decisions, and executes actions โ autonomously, continuously, at near-zero marginal cost. The interface layer, the thing SaaS companies spent billions building, becomes largely irrelevant.
This is not a feature update. It is a categorical restructuring of where value is created and how it should be priced.
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Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
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