What'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.
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Proton has introduced Proton Sheets, an end‑to‑end encrypted spreadsheet tool that joins its Docs offering in the Proton Workspace suite. The service is free for all Proton Drive users and encrypts both cell data and metadata, leveraging Swiss privacy law for stronger legal safeguards. With 54 % of European businesses still relying on cloud‑based spreadsheets, Proton positions Sheets as a privacy‑first alternative to Google and Microsoft solutions. The launch coincides with broader Workspace upgrades, including AI features and expanded VPN server locations.
I analyzed 130+ public tech earnings calls to learn how top CEO's and CFO's are Monetizing, Measuring, and Defending AI Value. New post here: https://lnkd.in/g-HMDYhp
You might not have heard of Housecall Pro, but it's a vSaaS juggernaut doing hundreds of millions in ARR. A surprising way they got there: Cold calling, even when the product started at only $4/mo 🤯. The math on that...
A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs spanning December 2022 to November 2024 for a New York Times copyright lawsuit. OpenAI contends the order jeopardizes user privacy and conflicts with its data‑retention commitments, while the court asserts layered...
My team of AI agents was getting out of hand. So I hired a Lead AI Manager. 🤖 TypingMind This is an LLM frontend that can connect with a large set of models - all from one unified UI. But the most amazing part: With...
My team of AI agents was getting out of hand. So I hired a Lead AI Manager. 🤖 TypingMind This is an LLM frontend that can connect with a large set of models - all from one unified UI. Let me show you 👇
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta for restricting third‑party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. The new policy, effective October 15 for new AI services and January 15 2026 for existing ones, blocks competitors while keeping Meta’s own AI accessible....
Rob Belcher of SaaS Capital explains that today’s SaaS founders can choose from bootstrapping, equity, private‑equity, and growth‑debt financing, with debt offering a dilution‑free path for companies generating $3‑15 million ARR. He outlines how SaaS Capital’s loan‑fund model aligns lender incentives...
In order to operate a healthy business, you should follow the 50-30-20 rule. - At most 20% of your work should be work that sucks, but is crucially needle-moving. - At most 30% of your work should be "leisure" work that doesn't...
And of course - the hidden benefits. - Owning your operation makes you an OUTSTANDING operator. - Designing internal systems forces you to deeply understand your own business. - Solving your own problems makes you see new opportunities. Exactly 100% of the SaaS tools...
Oracle NetSuite unveiled NetSuite Next at SuiteWorld 2025, branding it as the platform’s biggest product evolution. The new suite embeds contextual, conversational, and autonomous AI directly into ERP, CRM, and e‑commerce workflows, enabling tasks like account reconciliation and cash‑flow prediction...
SaasRise Mastermind Recap — Dec 3, 2025 Another week of peer-to-peer SaaS insights. CEOs tackled demand gen, AI, marketing, operations, and growth challenges. Key takeaways below 👇 1. Cold Email Response Rates Challenge: Only 1% reply; most positive responses early...

Here are the topics discussed this week in the SaaS CEO and Founder Mastermind. Come join us next Wednesday at 8am PT and 12pm PT on Zoom for the type of peer advice you can only get from other SaaS...
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑driven development assistant, mistakenly erased a developer’s entire D: drive when its Turbo mode misread a cache‑clearing request. The AI executed a system‑level delete command with the quiet flag, providing no warning or confirmation, and the...
In our third quarter, we delivered ARR of $1.782 billion, up 11% year over year - a testament to the team’s focus, consistent execution, and the momentum we’re seeing as customers scale agentic automation across the enterprise. Thank you Morgan...
🚀 New SaaS CFO Podcast! Kelby & Dave from Tritami are redefining technical training with direct access to top instructors + an 80% revenue share model. Full episode 👇 https://t.co/QOQelZUnUN #SaaS #AI https://t.co/briZQJfD0q
Amazon announced at re:Invent 2025 that it will give its AI coding assistant, Kiro Pro+, free for a year to qualified early‑stage startups. The offer provides up to 100 user credits per startup and targets U.S. companies with VC funding...
The Fizzy test suite runs in UNDER FOUR SECONDS! Nearly 2,500 assertions. The magic is to lean hard on vanilla Rails fixtures and parallel test runners. Not only is this blazingly fast, but it's also achingly beautiful. https://t.co/2wBGd2IQoZ https://t.co/XBtNtvRRzc
It's perhaps surprising, but if I had one piece of advice for a B2B entrepreneur getting started, it wouldn't be about culture, execution or product nuances. My advice would be to make sure what you're working on is something customers badly...
Nvidia and the University of Hong Kong unveiled Orchestrator, an 8‑billion‑parameter model that coordinates multiple tools and specialist LLMs to solve complex tasks. Trained with the new ToolOrchestra reinforcement‑learning framework, the model learns when to invoke specific utilities or sub‑models,...
The SaasRise Mastermind on Dec 3, 2025 dissected several pain points confronting SaaS CEOs, from a 1 % cold‑email reply rate to deteriorating lead quality across channels. Participants urged shortening outreach sequences, shifting spend from pure Google‑Ads capture to broader demand‑generation tactics, and...
Can you use my positioning methodology to get yourself a date? I had a fun conversation with Brent Adamson and Shari Levitin on the Selling Isn't Everything podcast, where we talked about a bunch of things like: ♥️ Can you...
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 69% trust score in Prolific’s vendor‑neutral HUMAINE blind test, up from 16% for Gemini 2.5. The evaluation, which involved 26,000 users across 22 demographic groups, placed Gemini 3 first in performance, reasoning, adaptiveness and...
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) halted most of its electronic trading platforms after a chiller‑plant malfunction at its CyrusOne data‑center caused a cooling failure. BrokerTec US Actives and BrokerTec EU were the only services to resume quickly, while all other...
A quick summary of what you can and can’t replace with AI today: - Outbound SDRs: you can replace most SDRs with AI today, possibly 100% … but you still need humans managing it and training it. Every day. IF...
Salesforce FY26 & Q3 Growth & Agentforce >3.2 Trillion Tokens! Salesforce Growth: FY26 $41.55B (Guidance) FY25 $37.9B FY24 $34.9B 2023 $31.4B 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.3B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.3B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $15B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B FY24 $10.2B FY23 $7.1B FY22 $6.0B Salesforce Margin: FY26 34.1% (guidance) FY25...
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
Salesforce FY26 & Q3 Growth & Agentforce >3.2 Trillion Tokens! Salesforce Growth: FY26 $41.55B (Guidance) FY25 $37.9B FY24 $34.9B 2023 $31.4B 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.3B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.3B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $15B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B FY24 $10.2B FY23 $7.1B FY22 $6.0B Salesforce Margin: FY26 34.1% (guidance) FY25...
Every CEO I know is busy building out their Strategic GTM Plan for 2026. This process can be scary and daunting. BUT, it doesn't have to be if you have the right help and blueprint to follow. This is why...

AI has moved from experimentation to core GTM implementation for SaaS firms, reshaping sales, marketing and customer success. Six companies—Tally, Chili Piper, Mollie, ElevenLabs, HubSpot and Postal—demonstrate concrete results, from $4 M ARR to 5,000 % revenue growth, by embedding AI agents,...
Which ERP is gaining the most ground in 2025 for B2B Tech CFOs? What are the most popular platforms in 2025 to manage SaaS Metrics?? Answers to those questions and so many more are available to those questions and so...
While OpenAI signed $1.15 trillion in compute contracts through 2035, DeepSeek trained a frontier model for $6 million. This was 2025’s central question : are we building on bedrock or quicksand? The top 10 posts of 2025 examined some of these...
Character.ai is ending open‑ended AI chat for users under 18 after a tragic suicide lawsuit and is introducing a visual, choice‑driven feature called Stories to keep teen users engaged. Stories let users select characters, pick a genre, and make plot...
AI vision has improved a ton in the last two years. But when we tested a full set of landing page analyzers, something stood out. Several tools couldn’t identify the primary CTA. Others misread the headline entirely. A few told us to...
There's a meme going around that SaaS is Over! It's good clickbait for sure. But the extremes are both wrong. SaaS isn't over. Nor is it the same as it was. The past tech transitions tell the tale - mainframe...
Password fatigue forces users to juggle roughly 168 passwords, leading to reuse and exposure to credential‑stuffing attacks. Passwordless authentication—using biometrics or security keys—eliminates the password layer while still delivering multi‑factor protection. The article debunks the myth that passwordless is less...
We just announced our Q3 earnings yesterday, delivering revenue of $301 Million and non-GAAP operating margins of 28.6% in the quarter, and we guided for the full year to come in at approximately $1.175 billion in revenue. A huge thanks to...
"96% of organizations say they DON'T see an org-wide transformation with AI" - Atlassian State of AI Collaboration Report What are the 4% of companies who go beyond individual productivity doing differently, and how can you get past the hype...
A startup told me that one of their investors didn't like it that they were selling to newly founded startups, and wanted them to sell to bigger companies, who have more money. If investors tell you this, write them off...
Don't fear competitors who've raised a lot, unless you can say precisely how all that extra money is going to make them beat you. E.g. if ads are the only way to acquire users, and they can buy all the...
Story from @Samsara: Replacing Drivers? The Real AI Revolution Is Empowering Them https://t.co/ejSMuoXgML via @usatoday
Keep your customers happy. Retention is a superpower. Renewals fund expansion.
Fizzy post-launch Livestream Q&A https://t.co/rGZEMsyuWk
Congrats to @phindsearch on their $10.4M round! Walls of text are so 2022. On Phind, every answer is now an interactive mini-app. It’s a step towards their vision of creating a personal internet just for you. https://t.co/JO0vbeF5BO https://t.co/t3R3dsQ4Yp
I don't think SaaS is dead. I think SaaS companies that don't lean hard into AI are dead.
New Agentforce 360 for AWS powers agents with models from @AmazonBedrock inside our secure Salesforce Trust Boundary. Full data governance, auditability, and no customer data used for model training. #Agentforce360 #Security https://t.co/vB1TuEfV62 https://t.co/u2PzHNdQV1

Last month, AI ran our entire $6.6M ARR business alone for 7 days. A lot of founders and LinkedIn warriors said I was insane, but RB2B grew faster than we had in months because of it. 👇 https://t.co/LMK9S1wyKh
Dropping an episode of "Do you even resonate?" soon. Which B2B SaaS site wants to volunteer? Reply with your URL and ICP
As long as all newly founded startups prefer your product, don't worry about competitors who can convince larger customers. You'll own all future cohorts of companies, and that's more than enough. Plus in practice you'll eventually convert the old cohorts...
When describing a startup it's usually better to use verbs rather than nouns. Say what you do rather than what you are. Not because it sounds more dynamic, but simply because it's clearer.