Saas
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The Weekly-Ship Problem: Change Management for AI Products That Rewrite Themselves
A conventional SaaS release changes what the software does. An AI-native SaaS release can also change what the software thinks, and those are …
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Key SaaS Trends Shaping 2026: The Mid-Year Read
This piece replaces an earlier draft that listed themes without analysing them. The list was fine as an outline and useless as an argument. What …
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Procurement's AI Questionnaire Era: What Due Diligence Now Asks, and How to Answer It
The AI questionnaire is now a standard item in technical due diligence. It sits alongside the SOC 2 and the DPA as a precondition for vendor …
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What Is Actually Portable in the AI Stack: An Exit-Cost Read for Buyers
The AI lock-in conversation is mostly conducted at the wrong altitude. Buyers ask “can we switch model providers?” and the answer, …
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AI-Native vs AI-Bolted-On: Three Structural Tells in Vertical SaaS
Every vertical SaaS vendor now claims AI. Most of the claims are true in some narrow sense, and almost none of them tell you whether the product was …
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Agent Observability Is Now a Buying Requirement: What to Demand Before Agents Touch Production Data
An agentic feature that cannot be traced is not a feature. It is an account sitting inside your data-path that nobody owns. Over the past two …
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Data residency and sovereign AI: the architecture patterns EU buyers are now asking about
Data residency is not a new requirement for European SaaS buyers. What changed since 2024 is that questions moved from “where is the database …
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Shadow AI inventory: discovery, acceptable use, and the governance category that formed to fix it
Every security and IT leadership review this year includes a slide on AI tools employees are using without approval, always presented as a problem. …
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FinOps for AI: unit economics, caching, and model routing as finance controls
Cloud FinOps taught engineering teams to treat compute as a budget line, not background cost. AI inference is now forcing the same lesson on product …
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Open-weight models after DeepSeek: what actually changed for enterprise AI stacks
In January 2025, DeepSeek released R1, an open-weight reasoning model that reset industry cost and performance assumptions. It was not the first …