🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 3h 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•Nov 26, 2025
Stop Paying Full Price: Get 5 Years of Genuine Microsoft 365 with up to 54% Discount for Black Friday
Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions are slashed for Black Friday on Newegg, with the Family plan at $86.99 (33 % off) and the Personal plan at $45.99 (54 % off). Both are 12‑month licences that can be bought in multiples to lock the discounted price for up to five years. Each subscription includes a free ESET NOD 32 antivirus worth $15. The article warns against third‑party sellers whose keys may be invalidated by Microsoft.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Persistence Pays Off: 9‑Year Journey to $25M ARR
I found a letter I wrote to myself in May 2016. 9 years later, it breaks my heart to read it. I wrote down exactly what I wanted: $25M ARR, lean team, freedom, and the lie I couldn’t afford while stuck...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Four Tests to Verify Your VP’s Effectiveness
Did you hire a good enough VP? 4 part test: - who great did they hire in the first 60 days? - did their #1 key metric improve? - did they take part of the job off your plate? - does the team believe? If they...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Nov 26, 2025
Is AI Support Perfect? No. But It’s A Lot Better Than No Support at All
Jason Lemkin argues that companies should deploy AI‑powered customer support now rather than wait for perfection. Well‑trained AI can resolve 60‑70% of tier‑1 queries instantly, delivering 24/7 coverage and cutting response times from hours to seconds. A hybrid model that...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Curated Daily Insights Cut Through Founder Noise
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Founders Need Daily, High‑Signal Newsletter Amid Content Overload
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me for...
By Hiten Shah
News•Nov 26, 2025
The New Holiday Shopping Concierge Is AI: Why Conversational Search Will Shape Black Friday & Cyber Monday
The article outlines how AI‑driven conversational search is replacing traditional keyword‑based product discovery for holiday shopping. Shoppers can articulate detailed intents—such as budget, use case, and constraints—and receive curated SKU recommendations with rationale. Brands and publishers stand to benefit from...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 26, 2025
No One Owns the Website—Complexity Blocks AI Adoption
ATTN: There is a giveaway at the end of this post. Everyone I know who touches websites is living a double life. By day: “We’ll get that website update live soon!! 🫶” By night: Asking chatGPT “how 2 fix a...
By Ari Murray
Social•Nov 26, 2025
M&A Surge Masks Low‑value, AI‑driven Seed Exits
I'm having some major cognitive dissonance about startup M&A. It *seems* to be 🌶️ with a record number of acquisitions according to Peter Walker . Yet Jason M. Lemkin & others are pointing out that in SaaS "the exits... are...
By Kyle Poyar
News•Nov 26, 2025
Emergency Alert Systems Across US Disrupted Following OnSolve CodeRED Cyberattack
OnSolve, a cloud‑based mass‑notification platform, suffered a targeted cyber‑attack that forced the shutdown of its legacy CodeRED system. The breach, claimed by ransomware group INC Ransom, resulted in the removal of user contact data and passwords, with a leak possible....
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Repeat Your Message, Build Trust and Referrals
Repetition builds riches. Here’s what actually happens in your audience’s brain when you repeat yourself: → Repetition builds familiarity, and familiarity builds trust (mere exposure effect) → Hearing something over time makes it stick in memory (spacing effect) → Your audience starts attributing that...
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Solo Founders: Bet on Three Small, Fast‑validated Ideas
Solo founders: stop betting it all on one idea. Run a portfolio of 3 small bets. Pick fast. Validate faster. Here's the playbook: 1) The rule - 3 small bets > 1 big bet. - Target: $1–3k MRR each. 2) Pick bets - Reachable audience. - Already knows the...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Nov 26, 2025
Watch Out Coders - Top Code Formatting Sites Are Apparently Exposing Huge Amounts of User Data
WatchTowr researchers discovered that popular code‑formatting services JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify expose user‑submitted data through an unprotected "Recent Links" feature. The flaw allowed crawlers to retrieve five years of JSONFormatter data and a full year of CodeBeautify data, revealing active directory...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Onboarding Should Deliver Value, Not Endless Feature Tours
Hot take: User onboarding is not about education. Most onboarding flows try to teach users about different product features. They shouldn't. Instead, they should get users to experience value as fast as possible. Here's what happens in most cases: You...
By Wes Bush
News•Nov 26, 2025
Struggling with High Storage Costs? Time to Get Deleting, as Study Finds up to 50% of Data Could Be Unused
A Crown Information Management study finds that as much as half of enterprise data sits idle, inflating cloud storage bills. Deleting 100 TB of unused files could trim an average AWS Standard storage customer’s costs by $27,600 per year. The report...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 26, 2025
AI Boosts Coding, but Human Prompting Remains Essential
It’s clear that AI agents are going to get better and better at coding. We’re going to be able to give them much bigger tasks, and reviewing that work will get easier and easier over time (both due to reliability,...
By Aaron Levie
News•Nov 26, 2025
Black Forest Labs Launches Flux.2 AI Image Models to Challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney
Black Forest Labs unveiled FLUX.2, a new family of image‑generation and editing models that includes four variants—Pro, Flex, Dev and the upcoming Klein—plus an open‑source VAE released under Apache 2.0. The models add multi‑reference conditioning, higher‑fidelity 4‑megapixel outputs, and markedly better...
By VentureBeat
Blog•Nov 26, 2025
The First 30 Seconds Matter More Than You Think
The episode explores how the first 30 seconds of a product experience can determine its success, illustrated by the host’s journey from a frustrating start with Beautiful.ai to the instant wow factor of Gamma. It highlights Gamma co‑founder Grant Lee’s...
By Sean Ellis
News•Nov 25, 2025
'The Leap Is Insane': Salesforce CEO Swaps ChatGPT for Gemini 3 and Says He's 'Not Going Back'
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced on November 23, 2025 that he has switched from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini 3 after a two‑hour trial, calling the new model’s reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities "insane" and saying he will not return...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 25, 2025
YouTube Is Working on a Feature that Will Fix the Messy Home Feed
YouTube is piloting an experimental feature called “Your Custom Feed” that lets users type prompts to shape the videos shown on their home page, aiming to curb the platform’s often‑misaligned algorithmic recommendations. The option appears alongside the standard Home button...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Rethink GTM Pricing, Hiring, Compensation for AI Scale
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should operate in a...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Rethinking GTM Pricing, Hiring, Compensation for AI Scale
Office Hours: GTM Leadership in the AI Era: Pricing, Hiring, and Compensation Thursday, December 11 5:30–7:30 PM PDT As AI-native companies scale, GTM leaders are being forced to rethink long-standing assumptions about pricing, hiring, incentives, and how revenue organizations should...
By Tomasz Tunguz
News•Nov 25, 2025
ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Is No Longer a Separate Interface
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT’s voice mode is being integrated directly into the main chat interface, eliminating the need for a separate screen. Users can now speak to the bot and see its responses, including images and maps, in real time...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Clarity Beats Speed: Narrative Accelerates Growth
Marketing is the new bottleneck. I tossed that out as a quick thought. The replies came fast. The private messages went deeper. People wanted to hear more and understand exactly what I meant, so I turned it into a thread....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Seeking Early‑Stage PM for Stealth AI MarTech Startup
Any talented Product Managers with experience in MarTech/SalesTech want to work together? I'm building a new product (currently in stealth mode) and looking to make our first hire on the product side after the holidays. This person: • Loves the...
By Dave Gerhardt
News•Nov 25, 2025
Perplexity Says Its AI Personal Shopper ‘Puts You First’
Perplexity has launched a free AI‑powered personal shopper for U.S. users ahead of the holiday season, allowing shoppers to type queries, refine results and purchase items directly through the platform via PayPal’s Instant Buy integration. The assistant remembers prior interactions...
By The Verge
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Delegate $10 Tasks, Reclaim 30 Hours Weekly
I was spending 30+ hours a week on stuff that has zero impact on growth. Scheduling meetings. Updating spreadsheets. Missing my kids' bedtime because I was answering emails until midnight... That’s when it hit me: I didn’t need more hustle....
By Dan Martell
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Deep Search Instantly Surfaces Hidden Ticket Insights
Deep Search from @yuma_dot_ai is a new way to access Customer Voice. Brands struggle to find patterns in thousands of support tickets, so critical issues go unnoticed for days. Deep Search uses a ChatGPT-like interface to scan the entire ticket cloud in...
By YCombinator
News•Nov 25, 2025
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Nov 25, 2025
Based on the Enterprise SaaS CEO Mastermind meeting, this is what we discussed:
By SaasRise
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Target the Goldilocks Zone: Mid‑Maturity Enterprise AI Customers
Just spoke to a friend who founded an early-stage AI startup (yes, this was an actual conversation - not one of those LinkedIn “I was just chatting with…” cold opens 😭). We were talking about a real dilemma: enterprise buyers...
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Marketing Is a Never‑Ending Pinball Game
PING! You ship that super interesting, well-written blog post. People love it. Traffic spikes, comments roll in… then things start to settle down. PING! You fire off a hot take on LinkedIn. Debate flares up in the comments, your audience...
By Amanda Natividad
News•Nov 25, 2025
Wyze’s New Security Camera Watches Your Yard From Inside Your Home
Wyze has launched a $34.99 Window Cam that monitors a yard from inside a rear window, eliminating the need for batteries, exterior power, Wi‑Fi extenders, or weatherproofing. The 1080p camera offers a 101-degree horizontal field of view, enhanced color night...
By The Verge
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Partnering with Signals Vendors Turns Outbound Into Cash
Pocus just closed a $100,000 deal FOR us. Why??? Because these 3 outbound plays inside Pocus PRINT MONEY. Here’s the breakdown 👇 BACKGROUND When we launched RB2B in March of last year, I thought every “signals” vendor was a competitor....
By Adam Robinson
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Build a Dream Team Before Hiring an Investment Bank
What key things should founders look for when hiring an investment bank to help sell their business or raise capital? Most software founders don't know exactly who needs to be involved in order to pull off a successful sale or...
By Michael Lyon
News•Nov 25, 2025
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Copilot Leaves WhatsApp on January 15
Microsoft announced that its AI chatbot Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, directing users to its own mobile apps or the web portal. The pull‑out follows WhatsApp’s revised platform policies that bar general‑purpose AI bots from...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Coach, Don’t Dictate: Use GROW to Empower Teams
My top takeaways from executive coach Rachel Lockett : 1. The biggest skill gap in new leaders is knowing when to coach vs. when to tell people what to do. When you constantly provide answers, you train your team to...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 25, 2025
AI Landing Page Tools Score Poorly in Real Audits
We scored every major AI landing page analyzer across the same criteria we use for real CRO audits. Comprehensiveness. Specificity. Originality. Realistic implementation. Correctness. The highest score was 5/15. Several landed at zero. This isn’t a knock on AI. It’s a reflection of...
By Hiten Shah
News•Nov 25, 2025
Speechify Adds Voice Typing and Voice Assistant to Its Chrome Extension
Speechify has expanded its Chrome extension to include voice typing and a conversational voice assistant that can answer questions about web content. The new dictation feature supports English, corrects errors and filler words, but early testing shows higher word error...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Nov 25, 2025
AI Video Agents Halve Downtime, Boost Resolution Speed
Congrats to Cerrion on their $18M Series A! Factory downtime costs manufacturers $1.4T annually (up 319% since 2019). Cerrion's AI video agents monitor production lines in real time, detecting quality issues, safety risks, and process deviations—then intervene automatically. Manufacturers like Unilever and...
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Chat UI Limits AI; Context‑First Unlocks Power
Chat made AI feel real for the first time. A blank box. A question. A response that sounded alive. It created the belief that conversation was the natural interface for intelligence. But the chat window is the smallest view of...
By Hiten Shah
Blog•Nov 25, 2025
Our 20+ AI Agents and Their Moats: Real But Weak
Jason Lemkin explains that while his company runs 20+ AI agents across its GTM stack, the core AI capabilities are largely interchangeable—prompts can be copy‑pasted between platforms with minimal tweaks and achieve comparable results. He argues that true moats lie...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 25, 2025
SaaStr AI VC Secures 682+ Startup‑VC Matches This Month
Then ready to get funded? SaaStr AI VC will help connect you with top B2B + AI VCs We’ve already made 682+ matches this month! Check that our here -> https://t.co/ZgZ3zuf6hP https://t.co/0zbn4irJYL
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Find the Perfect B2B AI VC with One Prompt
And not sure which VCs are right for your start-up? Ask SaaStr AI. In one prompt, we’ll tell you which of 372+ top B2B+AI VCs are best for your startup -> https://t.co/3JyImX3jMX https://t.co/bUh3OE9DWf
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 25, 2025
The Three Speeds of Zero Trust
Zero Trust must keep pace with the rapid, dynamic changes of modern IT environments, according to FireMon SVP David Brown. He identifies three critical speeds—change, alignment, and response—that determine whether Zero Trust implementations succeed or lag: continuous real‑time visibility to...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Open‑source Serverless AI Platform with Instant GPU Inference
Beam (@beam_cloud) is an open source serverless platform for AI apps. Run GPU inference, background jobs, and sandboxes with ultrafast boot times and no vendor lock-in. https://t.co/xlMRBl43Yr https://t.co/b0MGB5k5TU
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 25, 2025
MicroConf Talk Powers SaaS Playbook Pricing Section
@ronzilla @_lhermann Thanks! Also did a talk at MicroConf that covers all of these questions: https://t.co/nWzaXhZLyI The SaaS Playbook section on pricing is an adaptation of this talk, with a bit more info included.
By Rob Walling
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Create Custom Video Detection Models in Minutes
Building video detection models used to take months. With @DragoneyeAI's interactive playground, you can now build and deploy custom video models in minutes - simply describe what you want to see. https://t.co/WvW8IiNUTa https://t.co/QfSw34I4GQ
By YCombinator
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Building Great Products Is Hard: Bloat, Maintenance, Integration
@jasonlk Taste is hard (hello feature bloat) Maintaining is hard Legit integrations are hard
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Vibe Coding May Intensify Pricing and GTM Pressure
@jasonlk Agreed. Do you think tho that the threat of vibe coding plus ability for more competitors to emerge will create more pricing and gtm pressure?
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Net Revenue Retention: The Ultimate SaaS Success Indicator
“NRR is the metric that matters most.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) breaks down why Net Revenue Retention is the clearest signal for a billing infra company with long sales cycles + expansion potential. Ep 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #SaaS #AI https://t.co/WYxJradGbn
By Ben Murray