𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫: 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 $𝟐𝟒𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫. 😳
Jason Lemkin of SaaStr asked the question. His revenue agent alone makes between 35,000 and 40,000 API calls a day, and a price per call that looks trivial turns into a large number by month end.
This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:
𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭.
Your agent is a new kind of customer, and vendors have noticed. The next line in your software budget may be one nobody has written yet.
Inside the episode:
🔴 That $240,000 against the $5 Postgres instance the agent itself suggested, and why the contract and the security review come before the saving
🔴 Twenty agents you can reach by text message, priced from free to $100 a month
🔴 A hosting platform for agents in public preview, with pricing still undisclosed
🔴 A $100 million training academy aiming at 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, with the big consultancies in the room first
🔴 The move: ask three vendors what they charge when your software makes the calls
Cheaper models are arriving. The access around them is where the bill is moving. 🎙️
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