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.
TL;DR
- 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.