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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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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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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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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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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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? How many kinds of subscriptions do you support? What are the rules for subscriptions? Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? What about an AI support assistant?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Salesforce catalyzed cloud-delivery & annual subscription model in the enterprise, upending decades of selling software with perpetual licenses. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups? AI enables ABM-at-scale. The first time a user visits a site AI asks “What do you want to accomplish today?”

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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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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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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Enterprise software–at all stages and check sizes–with a focus on SaaS, Security, Infrastructure and, of course, with an integrated AI strategy.

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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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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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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that Redpoint has partnered with Spot AI to lead their $20M Series A. Spot AI enables simple access to insight from video. Spot AI builds an artificially intelligent camera system that stores video, analyzes it, and enables collaboration across a team. Plus, it’s plug and play. Run, Spot, run!

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

ServiceNow, a $150b market cap company, made this statement yesterday in their earnings call : “In Q4, our gen AI products drove the largest net new ACV contribution for our first full quarter of any of our new product family releases ever, including our original Pro SKU.” ServiceNow is the most recent. features shipped?)

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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 18, 2025

By BluLogix Team The Hidden Costs of Traditional Subscription Billing (And How Usage-Based Models Solve Them Introduction While subscription billing offers predictable revenue, it also introduces inefficiencies that can cost businesses millions. Many customers cancel subscriptions because they dont see the value.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

To calculate implied ARR I take the subscription revenue in a quarter and multiply it by 4. So for public companies the formula to calculate gross margin adjusted payback is: [(Previous Q S&M) / ((Current Q Subscription Rev x 4)  -(Previous Q Subscription Rev x 4)) x Gross Margin] x 12 Here’s the payback data from Q3.

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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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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 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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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

CustomerSuccessBox announced “Sheldon,” a new AI-engine to help customer success teams improve MRR Retention. Go to customersuccessbox.com to learn how your teams can get to 130%+ MRR Retention with AI-powered CustomerSuccessBox. Chargebee offers subscription billing and revenue operations for fast-growing B2B SaaS companies.

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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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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. Whether you just scored your Series A or are about to go public, there’s no reason to waste precious capital on tasks that could be automated.

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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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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. Usage-based pricing represents a seismic shift in how subscription businesses operate.

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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. Just this week, multiple AI coding copilots announced rounds exceeding $100 million.

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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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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

MAY 4, 2024

RevenueCat powers mobile subscriptions in over 30% of all mobile apps (!) Second, Gorgias sees big wins for AI in Support — But When Done Carefully. Across the SaaStr Fund portfolio , we can see a lot of different impacts of AI. Their AI agent is often in the Top 5% for CSAT. So what’s new? You pick your path.

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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. Example: Many AI platforms offer a free tier with limited credits, encouraging upgrades when usage grows.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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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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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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