The SaaSpocalypse
Why the AI Revolution is Eating Its Own Landlords
By: Riggs D. Thermonucleon, Dean of Bad Ideas (Emeritus) and Chief Disruption Officer, False Positive Labs
The Last Seat at the Table
For the past fifteen years, the tech industry has been governed by a single, sacred equation:
Number of Employees x $50/Month = Investor Happiness.
This is the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
It was a beautiful, parasitic symphony. A company would hire 500 mid-level managers to stare at spreadsheets; those managers would each need a “seat” (license) for a Customer Relation Mmanagement utility, a project management tool, a communication platform, and a specialized HR bot that sends automated birthday emails.
The tech-bros called this “Scale.” Wall Street called it “Recurring Revenue.” We at False Positive Labs call it the Human Seat Tax.
But something has gone wrong in the lab. The same Tech-Bros who spent a decade preaching the gospel of “Total Digital Transformation” have finally invented the thing they promised: AI. They thought they were building a more efficient worker. What they actually built was a Seat-Killer.
If a company can use an AI to do the work of 50 entry-level analysts, that company doesn’t just save on salaries. They cancel 50 SaaS licenses.
The “SaaSpocalypse” is the moment the software industry realizes it has spent billions of dollars building a guillotine for its own revenue model. It is the structural collapse of the “Per-Seat” economy, and the floor is starting to give way.
Speaking of paid seats…
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