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The SaaS Bill Just Split Into Two Meters

A watercolor illustration of two rising gauge dials, one small and capped, one large and still climbing, hung as a framed painting on the wall of a modern tech-startup meeting room in downtown San Francisco, with a blue pen and a laptop on the conference table below.

One meter counts how many people log in. The other counts everything the agents they authorized won’t stop doing, and the surviving architecture stacks both.

Your next software renewal will likely carry two prices, not one. One line still counts the people who log in. The new line counts everything the agents they turned loose did while nobody was watching a screen. Salesforce already reports it publicly: Agentforce revenue up 205% year over year, with the seat line holding right beside it. This is a stacking model, not a swap. It changes three things at once: what you sell, what you buy, and how fast a software bill you thought was fixed can run away from you.

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Why you should pay for the software you use

Pirates (more accurately called “thieves”) have lurked around in the background of the high-technology world since commercial software was first made available to personal-computer owners back in the olden days. When people think of digital piracy, however, they most often relate it to software. But piracy can be extended to anything available in a digital format on a local device—including mobile units—where the cost of producing perfect copies is almost zero. Even more, digital piracy may soon be found in the physical-goods world thanks to the growing popularity of 3D printers. The problem is, piracy (more accurately called “theft”) can eventually lead to a product’s development being stopped in its tracks because of a lack of funding for future versions. And that may well be the biggest reason to start paying for what you use.

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