https://www.hatch.org/tags/saas/ Recent content in SaaS on Steve Hatch's Blog Hugo en-us Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:41:01 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2025/10/21/death-of-saas-why-autonomous-ai-services-are-quietly-replacing-software-giants/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:41:01 +0000 https://www.hatch.org/2025/10/21/death-of-saas-why-autonomous-ai-services-are-quietly-replacing-software-giants/ <p><img src="https://www.hatch.org/images/death-of-saas-why-autonomous-ai-services-are-quietly-replacing-software-giants.png" alt="Death of SaaS: Why Autonomous AI Services Are Quietly Replacing Software Giants"></p> <p>Ten years ago, software companies sold tools.<br> In the next ten, they’ll sell <em>results</em>.<br> And if that sounds like semantics, it’s because most people haven’t realized that <strong>AI just killed “Software-as-a-Service” and replaced it with something bigger</strong> — what Foundation Capital calls <a href="https://foundationcapital.com/ai-service-as-software/">&ldquo;Service-as-Software&rdquo;</a>.</p> <hr> <h2 id="the-shift-no-one-saw-coming">The Shift No One Saw Coming</h2> <p>In the SaaS era, customers paid for access — a login, a dashboard, an API key.<br> The responsibility for performance sat with the user.</p>