Shelfware taught procurement to ask whether software was being used. Consumption pricing requires another question: Is the additional usage still worth what we are paying for it?

Here we are expecting a breakthrough performance without: redesigning processes (e.g., digitisation vs digitalisation) relieving people's fears of job loss, developing new skill sets, assigning ownership, enforcing usage, measuring outcomes.

Whether the large SaaS vendors can keep control of the orchesration and integration layer remains one of the most interesting questions in the enterprise software industry.

Most organisational inefficiency comes from undefined states, unclear ownership, and uncontrolled transitions — not from a lack of intelligence. Those problems are solved with basic RPA and workflow design, not machine learning.

Nano-SaaS, therefore, emerges precisely where incumbents stop: at the level of micro-niche problems that only become viable when developed through vibe coding.

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And that’s the paradox: you’re buying intelligence, but unless you govern it smartly, it makes your cost model dumber.