SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! AI is transforming SaaS, and were dedicating two massive stages to the SaaStr.AI The SaaStr.AI Summit Is Back and Bigger.

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Subscription Flow

JUNE 26, 2024

What Mol did was identify how badly traditional banks’ online payment processing worked for small European businesses, before offering Mollie recurring payments as an alternative to these businesses that were nearing bankruptcy during the lockdown. How to handle Mollie recurring payments?

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. Generally you need to aggregate data from a number of places to “group.” Many of them AI based. Follow along to stay up to date! Perfect for a LLM!

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? Why is pricing so tricky? The costs are dynamic. Usage is volatile. ROI is unproven.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI. They want one that fits their unique needs and integrates with their data sources and third-party things. Now, it’s time to knock over all of these beliefs with generative AI.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

In an era when executives are bombarded with tech buzzwords, it’s vital to focus on real-world AI uses that deliver business impact. This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. Executives also leverage generative AI for idea generation and reporting.

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USIO

MARCH 7, 2025

By embedding payment capabilities directly into existing business systems, companies can eliminate redundancies, improve cash flow, and create a smoother experience for customers and partners alike. Manual invoicing, reconciliation, and transaction approvals require time and personnel, leading to higher operational costs.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation. Now, it’s 100+ times.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 29, 2025

Were excited to bring AI-based enrichment to every ChartMogul customer, across both CRM and Subscription Analytics. Late last year, we quietly rolled out an AI-powered enrichment feature to a small group of customers. Late last year, we quietly rolled out an AI-powered enrichment feature to a small group of customers.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. With businesses adopting diverse pricing modelsranging from subscriptions to usage-based billinglegacy systems often struggle to keep up.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

Subscription revenue has accelerated to 31%. Rolling Our AI Products, But Still Early ServiceTitans AI capabilities, like Dispatch Pro and Marketing Pro, are designed to automate tasks, drive insights, and increase customer ROI. Scheduling Pro leverages real-time customer data to demonstrate availability and improve efficiency.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses. Fully Compliant, Custom Trial and Subscription Options (Without Writing Code).

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

Subscribe now Data + Compute = AI Two of the largest data companies in the world, Snowflake and Databricks, held their annual conferences this week. Foundation models and their outputs are only as good as the data that feeds / trains them. To truly take advantage of AI, enterprises need organized data in the cloud.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. At the 8th ever SaaStr Annual, ~200 of the best and hottest companies on earth will go BIG as partners/sponsors.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 13, 2024

The platform’s AI-driven algorithms detect fake followers and engagement, ensuring that creators with authentic and engaged audiences are highlighted, increasing their appeal to brands. Pricing: Shopify Collabs is available to Shopify merchants as part of their existing subscription. 

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that Redpoint has partnered with Spot AI to lead their $20M Series A. These cameras generate petabytes of data daily, but the software interfaces to access video today limit their use and value. Spot AI enables simple access to insight from video. Plus, it’s plug and play. Run, Spot, run!

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. GCP data is a bit more noisy as they don’t disclose GCP itself, but rather Google Cloud which includes GSuite. Let’s get into some high level data.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 30, 2025

Subscribe now Moats in the Age of AI A lot has been written about moats in software. Proprietary data. In the Age of AI, this is more true than ever. The first AI note-taking tools? Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Pendo for Startups” gives companies access to the product usage data that today’s investors consider alongside business metrics as they vet deals, as well as sentiment and guidance tools to improve product usage and adoption. With Visual SQL, people across your company will be able to explore and understand your data. ClientSuccess .

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Terms like Large Language Model (LLM) and AI tool often get tossed around interchangeably, but they arent the same thing. Because choosing between leveraging a raw LLM versus an AI-powered tool can mean the difference between a groundbreaking feature and a misguided project. In this article, well explore LLMs vs AI tools in depth.

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Blulogix

MARCH 12, 2025

By BluLogix Team The Future of Monetization: Why Usage-Based Billing is the Key to Scalable Growth Introduction Introduction Subscription models have dominated the digital economy for years, but in 2025, usage-based billing is emerging as the smarter, more scalable approach. Automate Billing & Invoicing to prevent revenue loss.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

Subscription models offer companies large and small the opportunity to build predictable revenue and high customer lifetime value. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic. In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. General purpose GenAI tools dominate the market today, but the tooling layer is starting to emerge to allow enterprises to fine tune models to their specific data. A strong data foundation is critical for an effective AI strategy!

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FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, Stripe advertises subscription management features, however, many companies end up integrating with another service like Chargebee or Recurly to get the subscription management features they need. More subscription management features. Manage Everything from Checkout to Subscriptions in One Platform.

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Stax

MARCH 4, 2024

So, let’s dive into payment security, touching on the basics of what you need to know to ensure secure payments. TL;DR The PCI DSS determines security protocols and sets the standards for payment security. of the global population using this method of payment in 2022. What is SSL/TLS?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It’s been 9 months since ChatGPT was released and 7 months since it became the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million monthly active users , ushering in a new era of generative AI. But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? Who might be the next “big winner”?

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Neil Patel

MAY 14, 2021

Well, now it’s possible, thanks to AI copywriting tools powered by machine learning. What Is AI Copywriting and How Does It Work? AI copywriting is essentially computer-generated writing created using natural language processing tools. Then, you set certain parameters for the AI tool to follow. AI Copywriting Limitations.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). The two most common are annualizing non-recurring revenue (say multiplying monthly revenue x 12), or taking reoccurring revenue can calling it ARR. A huge portion of AI revenue today is truly experimental! ERR stands for Experimental Runrate Revenue.

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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Here are the players and how they work together: Payment gateway – The customer-facing application connecting the eCommerce store to the payment processing system. The customer enters their payment details and the gateway securely transmits the data to the network.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

1 Userpilot for product teams to collect and act on NPS data Creating NPS surveys with Userpilot. Personalize surveys by setting conditions based on user behaviors , translating and localizing your NPS surveys using AI, and customizing the appearance of your surveys to match your app’s design.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

By Inga Broerman Scaling with Usage-Based Models: A Practical Guide to Metering The rise of usage-based pricing is revolutionizing the subscription economy. Data-Driven Pricing: Advanced analytics allow companies to refine usage models to maximize both revenue and customer satisfaction.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

What does advertising look like in the world of AI? In a future where generative AI dominates search, the ten blue links & five sponsored ads disappear. These are both passed to the AI model into the context window. What if the training data contains caloric misinformation about a new Pepsi fizzy mushroom cola?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2021

“The Current State of SaaS Companies, Subscriptions and Retention with ProfitWell” A great update from a version of this data just after Covid hit. #3. “How to Use AI to Create Highly Engaging Enablement Programs with Zoom” How Zoom uses AI to turbocharge the quality of its sales enablement.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By BluLogix Team Thriving in the Subscription Economy of 2025 and Beyond Introduction The subscription economy is not just a trendits a transformative shift in how businesses operate and generate value. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) AI is set to play a significant role in the future of the subscription economy.

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