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. Many of them AI based. 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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SaaS pricing isn’t static – it’s a living strategy that grows with your company. In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Tiered pricing models emerge to address these differences.

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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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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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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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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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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 13, 2024

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start from $89/mo with a free trial. 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.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Royalty-free A "royalty" is a payment made every time a piece of content is used. Royalty-free music means you pay once upfront for rights to use the music, rather than making recurring payments (royalties) each time you use the track. Annual subscriptions offer significant savings.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Founders, Kevin Liu and Scott Woody learned from their own early career experiences that companies need an easier way to deliver flexible pricing and packaging to the market. #2.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

In broad strokes, recurring billing consists of four steps: Setting up trials, recurring billing intervals, and pricing models. Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management.

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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. Trends like usage-based pricing , complex provisioning , industry consolidation , and evolving regulatory landscapes are reshaping how businesses operate and thrive.

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Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2025

By BluLogix Team AI Billing Innovations, Usage-Based Pricing, Credits, and Prepaid Models AI Billing Needs a New Approach Unlike traditional SaaS, AI products often require real-time metering and consumption-based pricing. Prepaid Billing AI companies are shifting from post-consumption billing to prepaid models.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

In this blog, while understanding more about CardPointe and why it still works for so many businesses, we will take you through a guide on managing Cardpointe recurring billing with SubscriptionFlow to ensure that you do not miss out on collecting recurring payments just because CardPointe has dropped it. What is CardPointe?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks.

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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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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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Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Integration capabilities Since you probably have other tools in your tech stack, you dont want to keep switching tabs or windows to reconcile invoices or transfer data. Look for an eCommerce payment system that offers plug-and-play integrations with your existing tech stack to minimize development costs.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

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. Leverage AI-driven sentiment analysis to analyze and categorize open-ended responses quickly.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

This matters a lot more when stock prices are going down, and management teams often grant additional shares to make employees whole (thus increasing dilution even more) The quarterly median FCF margin has continued to rise as we exited the ZIRP period and companies focused on efficient growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Bandwidth’s nationwide network is built to support scale, provide deeper insights to help prevent user dissatisfaction, and by removing the middleman, SaaS companies enjoy direct-to-carrier pricing. CustomerSuccessBox announced “Sheldon,” a new AI-engine to help customer success teams improve MRR Retention. SaaSOptics . ProfitWell.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 30, 2024

A technological shift is exemplified by what happened in endpoint security, where rules-based solutions from Trend Micro and Symantec were replaced by AI-based anomaly detection from CrowdStrike and SentinelOne. These companies then competed with each other, leading to intense pricing battles.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 12, 2024

Subscribe now The Red Queen Effect I strongly believe in two competing truths with respect to AI and its impact - the size of the prize will be bigger than we imagine now, BUT we’ll overestimate it in the short term. Right now the world is evolving - AI is a massive platform shift. And I think (for now) the latter is much larger.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. Your office manager doesn’t have time to seek out the best prices on office supplies—let alone make new purchases every week. 5 Purchasing.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

As far as an expected timeline - yesterday the company filed an amended S-1 with a $17 - $19 price range (more on that in a minute). In addition to our financial and operational capabilities, the Digital Finance Cloud embeds powerful applied AI and machine learning technologies to further enhance our offering to customers.

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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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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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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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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2024

RevenueCat powers mobile subscriptions in over 30% of all mobile apps (!) But the insiders wanted to invest more, so they took in a modest amount of extra capital ($12m) at a slightly higher price. Second, Gorgias sees big wins for AI in Support — But When Done Carefully. Their AI agent is often in the Top 5% for CSAT.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 21, 2024

1: Meta’s social media marketing course Best course for beginners seeking to receive professional training Price : Free. 2: Impactful social writing Best course for becoming a thought leader in your niche Price : $127. The cheapest one is priced at $29/month. Instructor(s) : Anke Audenaert , Daniel Kob.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Inga Broerman Why Billing Automation is the Foundation of Scalable Growth In the dynamic world of the subscription economy , businesses face increasing competition and mounting customer expectations. Schedule a Demo Today The Challenge of Scalability in Subscription Management Scaling a subscription business is inherently complex.

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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. Customers increasingly demand pricing models that reflect their actual consumption, offering greater flexibility and perceived value.

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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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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. A strong data foundation is critical for an effective AI strategy! This was repeated quite a few times AI tends to be additive budget for large enterprises. This year, there was tons of experimentation.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Another important detail to note is how Average Sales Price (ASP) and Expenses have changed over time.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for media let you create content at scale in a previously impossible way and you don’t even need design experience to create something impressive. AI isn’t new. But, these sectors have only scratched the surface of AI capabilities. The KinetiX tech AI tool is free for personal use.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 1, 2024

Anything AI related has always been “hot,” but it has really hit a fever pitch in the last few months. What’s most interesting about this, is a lot of the darling AI companies from last year have really slowed down, but everyone seems to have forgotten this and is ready to “find the next big thing.”

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