When Compute Is Your COGS: Lessons GaaS Should Steal From Cloud
Agentic AI-as-a-Service vendors keep modeling their economics like SaaS companies, but their cost structure is closer to a cloud infrastruct
8 articles tagged "gaas gross margin".
Agentic AI-as-a-Service vendors keep modeling their economics like SaaS companies, but their cost structure is closer to a cloud infrastruct
A sales-development (SDR) agent that books meetings sounds like a clean per-outcome business: charge per meeting, pay for tokens, pocket the
Model routing is the single most reliable lever a GaaS vendor has for expanding gross margin without touching price. By sending the easy 70-
Inference is the one input cost in your business that can swing 50% in a quarter -- in either direction -- and you usually find out after th
A customer-support agent that "deflects 70% of tickets" sounds like printing money. The real math is messier. Once you load in retries, esca
Software taught a generation of founders that anything below an 80% gross margin was a problem. Agentic AI-as-a-Service breaks that rule, be
Slapping a SaaS-style "12x ARR" on an agent business quietly assumes things that aren't true anymore: near-zero marginal cost, durable recur
Most agent-as-a-service founders obsess over token prices and model choice while ignoring the single biggest swing factor in their cost-to-s