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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.

When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

So You Want to Sell Inference

Reselling inference is a zero-margin commodity. The margin question comes down to cost-plus versus value-based pricing : one anchors to the inference line, the other decouples from it.

So You Want to Sell Inference

The First Derivative of Inference

The fastest growing companies in AI & software all share one property. They are either selling AI directly, or they are reselling inference. At worst, the first derivative of inference.

What Would AI Email Cost?

State-of-the-art AI email costs $22-130/month, but smaller models & local inference can cut costs by 100x. The next 12-24 months will be defined by matching models to workloads.

What Would AI Email Cost?

The Three Questions in AI Sales

The new sales motion asks three questions : software budget, labor budget, & what ratio you want in three years.

The Three Questions in AI Sales

AI's Bundling Moment

The SaaS era rewarded unbundling & specialization. AI companies are rebundling into platforms because rapid model changes create cognitive burden for buyers assembling best-of-breed stacks.

AI's Bundling Moment