Executive Briefing: Agents Split Your Software Into 3 Parts. Which Should You Keep Paying For?
Agents are pulling apart the data, screens, and workflows you’ve been buying as one subscription. Each piece now needs its own decision.
AI agents are causing a strategic shift by dissecting software subscriptions into distinct components: data, interfaces, and workflows. This unbundling requires leadership to understand how their teams are using AI and to decide which capabilities are worth building internally versus continuing to purchase. The evolution of AI necessitates a new approach to software buying and selling, focusing on evolving value and strategic advantage.
- AI agents are making decisions that shape software strategy by determining data importance, workflow skips, and trusted processes.
- Software subscriptions can be unbundled into data, interfaces, and workflows, each with different future trajectories.
- Companies must decide which capabilities to continue buying, where to invest engineering effort, and how much flexibility to retain as AI models improve.
- Sellers need to demonstrate ongoing business improvement beyond simply having AI, while buyers should understand which parts of a workflow can be changed when switching providers.
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