🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 2h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing, tying fees to customer gains
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing model for its Office of the CFO platform, removing implementation and subscription fees until the solution is live and then taking a share of verified financial gains. The model stems from a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS, an AI‑native platform for autonomous customer journeys
By the numbers: Miso Robotics acquires Zignyl (value undisclosed)
News•Dec 22, 2025
Things I Learnt About Passkeys when Building Passkeybot
Passkeybot.com launched a hosted sign‑in page that lets developers add passkey authentication with minimal server code. The author details technical insights gained, from Apple’s Secure Enclave and the distinction between user presence and verification to attestation’s privacy trade‑offs. New WebAuthn features such as the immediate mediation API and Related Origin Requests simplify fast sign‑ins and cross‑domain passkey provisioning. The article also covers practical concerns like JavaScript security, BLE‑based passkey use, and emerging standards like the Digital Credentials API.
By Hacker News
News•Dec 22, 2025
Sigma Launches Privacy-Focused AI-Native Browser with Local LLM
Sigma Browser OÜ unveiled Eclipse, a privacy‑first browser that embeds a local large language model, keeping all queries and chat data on the user’s device. Unlike Chrome’s Gemini or Firefox’s AI add‑ons, Eclipse never sends data to the cloud and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 22, 2025
Foxit PDF Editor Gains New Collaboration Safeguards and AI Features
Foxit released PDF Editor v2025.3 for Windows and Mac, adding privacy‑focused collaboration safeguards and a suite of AI tools. The update introduces region‑specific consent prompts, audit‑logged consent data, and automatic anonymization for users who decline. Integration with Microsoft Sensitivity Labels...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 22, 2025
EaseUS Adds Fragmented File Recovery Tech to Data Recovery Wizard
EaseUS released Data Recovery Wizard 20.1.0, adding a SmartSector Rebuild (SSR) engine that targets fragmented files on heavily used removable storage. The SSR technology analyzes data signatures, metadata, and block proximity to reconstruct files that standard tools miss. EaseUS claims up...
By BetaNews
Social•Dec 22, 2025
Jagged vs Smooth AI: Incumbents Win Edge, Disruptors Dominate Core
Banger by @emollick. His Jagged Intelligence concept really has become one of the most important ideas in AI. In B2B AI, you could argue that it reveals a framework for disruptor versus incumbent success: * Jagged Intelligence area => advantage to incumbents,...
By Nick Mehta
News•Dec 22, 2025
Facilitating Energy Management with a Unified, Scalable, and AI-Powered Operations Platform
Schneider Electric introduced EcoStruxure Foresight, an AI‑powered unified platform that integrates electrical and mechanical building systems to optimize energy use. The solution promises up to 50% efficiency gains, 90% faster issue resolution, and up to 50% reduction in engineering time. It...
By CIO.com
Blog•Dec 22, 2025
This Week on How I AI: How to Get Your Whole Team Excited About AI
In this episode, product designer Brian Greenbaum shares a repeatable playbook for turning a team into AI enthusiasts, emphasizing fast tool experimentation, hands‑on workshops, and a clear adoption roadmap that won over leadership. He explains how championing AI accelerated his...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Dec 22, 2025
NordProtect Rolls Out Expanded Monitoring Features for Identity Theft Detection
NordProtect, Nord Security’s identity‑theft protection service, has added expanded monitoring capabilities to detect fraud earlier. The upgrade includes credit monitoring across all three major bureaus, short‑term loan tracking, and comprehensive financial‑account alerts. Users also receive a TransUnion credit‑lock feature and...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 22, 2025
Why Flaky Tests Are Increasing, and What You Can Do About It
Flaky tests in mobile development have surged, with Bitrise Mobile Insights reporting a jump from 10 % in 2022 to 26 % in 2025. The rise coincides with a 20 % increase in pipeline complexity and faster release cadences, turning occasional glitches into...
By SD Times
News•Dec 22, 2025
Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools
Beverly Hills High School has installed a $4.8 million AI‑driven surveillance suite that combines facial‑recognition cameras, behavioral analytics, bathroom listening devices, drones and license‑plate readers. The district argues the system is essential for a high‑profile Los Angeles campus amid a wave of...
By Slashdot
Social•Dec 22, 2025
A 5‑minute Nudge Turns Site Drop‑offs Into Deals
We worked with a founder who helps leaders become thought leaders on LinkedIn. Had a major issue with drop-offs that he couldn’t track down, so he added RB2B to his site. Every week, he checked who visited. Sorts them as ICP...
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 22, 2025
EU Offers UK Early Gift: Data Adequacy Until 2031
The European Commission has renewed its GDPR adequacy decision for the United Kingdom, extending frictionless data transfers until 27 December 2031. The six‑year extension, subject to a review after four years, follows a brief technical extension that prevented a lapse at the...
By The Register
News•Dec 22, 2025
Is Xbox Betting on Cross-Platform Gaming?
Microsoft reported a 2% decline in overall gaming revenue and a 29% plunge in Xbox hardware sales for FY2026, with the Series X/S experiencing a 70% sales drop in November. CEO Satya Nadella signaled a strategic pivot toward an "everywhere"...
By Slashdot
News•Dec 22, 2025
NHS England Tech Provider Reveals Data Breach - DXS International Hit by Ransomware
DXS International, a key NHS England technology supplier, disclosed a ransomware attack discovered on December 14 that was quickly contained and remedied. The unknown threat actor, identified as the DevMan group, claims to have stolen 300 GB of company data, though clinical...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 22, 2025
ChatGPT’s New Personality Settings Let You Pick the Vibe — and It Ranges From Corporate Calm to Chaotic Bestie
OpenAI has introduced a new suite of personality controls called Characteristics for ChatGPT, allowing users to tweak warmth, friendliness, enthusiasm and other traits via three‑level presets. These settings sit alongside the existing Base style and tone options—Professional, Friendly, Quirky, etc.—so...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 22, 2025
AWS Leans on Partners to Spin up Mainframe Modernization Agents
Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Transform Composability, a platform enabling partners to create AI-driven agents that automate mainframe‑to‑cloud migrations. The solution lets service providers encode industry‑specific knowledge—such as COBOL insurance claims or government records—into reusable, containerized agents hosted in Elastic...
By CIO Dive
Social•Dec 22, 2025
AI-Powered Fin Platform Unveils New CX and Topic Tools
We're sharing some product updates in a fun new casual style these days, hear from Brian , Christine , and Dawn P. Here's the key feature callouts CX Score - AI tells you what your customers are *actually experiencing* (1:30)...
By Des Traynor
Social•Dec 22, 2025
AI Unifies Marketing, Sales, and Support Into One Agent
"AI is converging marketing, sales & support. They are becoming 1 AI agent. Not 10 different pre-AI SaaS products. In fact, it's already happening in e-commerce." The latest with @rodriscoll @HarryStebbings + me https://t.co/Uhpain34qX
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Dec 22, 2025
Dear SaaStr: When Should You Sell Your Startup?
The SaaStr post outlines practical signals for when founders should consider selling their SaaS startup and when they should hold off. It advises exiting before cash runs out, when the team cannot be strengthened, or when a founder’s personal “magic...
By SaaStr
Social•Dec 22, 2025
Automate Freight Billing, Get Paid 5 Days Faster
Lighthouz AI (@lighthouzai) helps freight brokers and 3PLs improve their cash flow and get paid 3-5 days faster. They automate freight bill audits and invoicing—turning long processing cycles into hours, enabling teams to handle 4-5x more volume without adding headcount. https://t.co/IAWfd57O3O
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 22, 2025
Master the Ordinary, Skip the Trend Chase
In marketing everyone is searching for the next big thing. My advice? Stop chasing trends. Instead figure out how to do common things uncommonly well.
By Katelyn Bourgoin
News•Dec 22, 2025
Microsoft Brings Ask Copilot and Agents to the Windows 11 Taskbar for Business Users
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523, adding Ask Copilot and AI Agents directly to the taskbar for commercial users. The opt‑in feature integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot, contextual Work IQ data, and voice or text interaction in a single click. Agents can be invoked via...
By BetaNews
News•Dec 22, 2025
What the AWS Outage Taught CIOs About Preparedness
The October outage of AWS US‑East‑1 rippled through SaaS tools, home monitoring, and even school sites, highlighting hidden third‑party dependencies. Deluxe’s CIO, Yogs Jayaprakasam, traced over a dozen major cloud failures in the past year and concluded that preparedness, not...
By CIO.com
News•Dec 22, 2025
"It Doesn’t Matter Which Industry You Belong to, Data Is Your Lifeblood" - Veeam CEO Tells Us Why Getting Security...
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran says data security and resilience are prerequisites for any AI initiative. The company’s $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI is meant to create a unified platform that protects data across its entire lifecycle, from creation to backup to...
By TechRadar
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News•Dec 22, 2025
[Podcast] Unifying Intelligence
Enterprises are still wrestling with fragmented data definitions and hidden logic that lock them into costly vendor ecosystems, according to a new survey of 100 senior IT leaders. Strategy Software’s three‑part podcast series, "Unifying Intelligence," breaks down why data consistency...
By CIO Dive
Social•Dec 21, 2025
More Expensive LLMs Aren’t Always the Better Choice
There are times when the very latest LLM is the best, and there are times when the most expensive LLM is the best. And there are times when it isn't. We've run 2,700 VC Pitch Decks through SaaStr AI VC so I...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 21, 2025
No Wonder There's a Bubble - Study Claims Nearly All of the World’s Data Centers Are Built in the Wrong...
A new study finds that nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 operational data centers operate outside the ASHRAE‑recommended 18 °C‑27 °C temperature range, with about 600 facilities in climates exceeding 27 °C year‑round. Singapore alone hosts over 1.4 GW of capacity despite average temperatures...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Deep Customer Insight Gets Punished by Organizational Incentives
One more layer that’s worth naming. Even when teams talk to customers with good intent, most companies structurally make understanding hard to sustain. The incentives quietly punish it. Deep understanding creates friction. It slows momentum and introduces ambiguity right when leadership wants certainty. So...
By Hiten Shah
News•Dec 21, 2025
This App Promises to End Your Subscription Overload — and I'm Glad I Found It
Subee, a subscription‑management app, helps users track and cancel recurring services. It boasts a 4.6‑star rating, claims $150 million in user savings and a 98 % cancellation success rate. The app imports subscriptions via Gmail or manual entry, displays them in a...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 21, 2025
AI Agents Will Become Vertical‑specific, Integrated Professional Teams
From Karpathy’s latest post: “LLM apps will organize, finetune and actually animate teams of them into deployed professionals in specific verticals by supplying private data, sensors and actuators and feedback loops.” This is exactly right. In a world of AI agents, there...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Outdated GTM? Adopt ICP, Messaging, and Repeatable Motion
The 5 warning signs your GTM Strategy is already outdated for 2026…. 1) Your only form of Marketing is spending on Google ADs 2) You're waiting for SEO to kick in 3) Your AI SDR is returning zero replies 4)...
By TK Kader
News•Dec 21, 2025
How AI Is Preventing Collisions, Driving Productivity, and Transforming Physical Operations
Artificial intelligence is reshaping physical operations by preventing collisions, scaling driver coaching, and automating manual workflows. With 70% of firms flagging worker safety as a top priority, AI’s real‑time alerts and billions‑of‑miles‑trained models are becoming essential. In the UK, driver...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 21, 2025
First SDR Teams Demand Heavy Management and Constant Recruiting
The toughest part of building your first SDR team is how to manage it: 1/ Need a lot of management 2/ Turnover often high 3/ Who will train 4/ Need constantly be recruiting 5/ Often junior Outbound always works. Always....
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Founder Cashes Out at Peak to Fund New Venture
ChatFAI was winning. Millions of users, strong revenue, and viral growth. Umar (@heyumarkhan) got acquired when things were going great. Cashed in the chips. He then used the exit to fuel his other startup. Full interview here: https://t.co/tNIE71aLPb https://t.co/htq2TImIUZ
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 21, 2025
Workers Should Control the Means of Agentic Production, Suggests WorkBeaver Boss
WorkBeaver CEO Bars Juhasz argues AI agents should be adopted from the worker’s perspective, not top‑down mandates, to prevent premature layoffs. The no‑code platform lets non‑technical staff automate tasks through a menu‑driven interface and an upcoming version that learns by...
By The Register
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Small Wins Build Toward Massive Startup Success
Startups are built by consistently executing small short term goals towards really large long term goals.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Anthropic Takes Enterprise Lead as OpenAI Shifts to Consumers
The AI LLM market share story of 2023-2025 is one of just ... massive change. Fast. Enterprise LLM Market: 2023: OpenAI 50% | Anthropic 12% | Google 7% 2025: Anthropic 40% | OpenAI 27% | Google 21% 🥇Anthropic went from distant third to...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Dec 20, 2025
App of the Week: OpenRouter — The Universal API for All Your LLMs
OpenRouter launched a unified API that aggregates more than 300 large‑language models from over 60 providers, letting developers access any model through a single endpoint. The platform automatically routes requests based on cost, speed, accuracy, and privacy, and provides built‑in...
By SaaStr
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Give Your Product Away Generously to Drive Growth
Lovable 's secret sauce to growth: Give the product away—a lot. Here's the relational from their head of growth Elena Verna 👇
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 20, 2025
AI Agents Scaling to All Knowledge Work by 2026
The rate of AI agents being able to complete more and more complex work is definitely the story of 2025. Next year it appears this will only go more vertical. We’re collectively figuring out how to develop agent architectures that...
By Aaron Levie
Blog•Dec 20, 2025
🧠 Community Wisdom: What PMs Need to Master in the Age of AI, Testing Product Activation with AI Browsers, Splitting...
The episode explores how product managers must adapt to AI, covering practical uses like testing product activation with AI-driven browsers and balancing traditional PM responsibilities with prompt engineering. It compares analytics platforms Mixpanel and PostHog, highlighting strengths and trade‑offs for...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Entrepreneurship: Expect Future Self to Question Today's Decisions
I think about where I was 10 years ago, and I wish I could go back and smack myself upside the head. The things I thought were correct were ABSOLUTELY not correct. There's almost nothing about how I made decisions in my...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Dec 20, 2025
From Poor to Best: Support Can Turn Around Quickly
Had an issue on @Replit last night and they pushed a fix in wee hours of morning Went from mediocre support (at best) in June 2025 to … the best support I’ve gotten this year in December 2025 You can do the...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 20, 2025
Five Post-Incident Improvements that Actually Strengthen Resilience
David Brown argues that true resilience is forged after an outage, not during the rush to restore services. He outlines five post‑incident actions—visibility audits, controlled change, data‑driven cleanup, explicit ownership, and automated lessons—that turn reactive fixes into lasting strength. By...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Build Moats, Not Features, to Win in 2026
Stop competing on features in 2026. Start building moats. Achieving feature parity is tablestakes these days. The ONLY way you get a chance in the playing field (and more importantly to stay there) is through building hard-to-copy moats. Here are...
By Wes Bush
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Great Marketing Starts with Customers, Not Competitors
The best marketing ideas come from studying your customers (not your competitors)
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Pricing ERP Pre-Scale: Two Critical Metrics Revealed
How do you price an ERP before scale? 🤔 On Ep 223 of The SaaS CFO Podcast, Michael Salorio breaks down Solentrex’s per-proposal pricing model—and the 2 metrics that matter most right now. 🎧 https://t.co/qW6DePhZzM #SaaS #Podcast https://t.co/K9Q5UvmZ0p
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Customers Know Your Startup’s Roadmap Better Than You
Talk to your customers. Talk to your customers. Talk to your customers. I promise they know more about your startup's roadmap than you do.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Top CEOs Forecast AI Landscape in 2026
2026 AI predictions from the CEOs of NVIDIA, Harvey, Glean, Cognition, Box, .... Jensen Huang, @jainarvind , @winstonweinberg, @ScottWu46 ,@raizamrtn, @zackmziegler, @levie, @MishaLaskin, @polynoamial, @joshim5, @bryan_johnson, @_sholtodouglas, @bfspector, @amspector100, @dylan522p
By Elad Gil