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B2B SaaS Pricing and Access Models Are Not Built for AI Agents

A builder argues that per-seat SaaS subscriptions and thin MCP/API integrations do not fit how people now work through AI agents, since agents lack the domain expertise to use raw APIs well and vendors are reluctant to expose full internal functionality. The post frames this as a shift toward selling priced, well-defined units of agent-executed work instead of subscriptions or per-call API pricing.

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