04/30/2026
For years, software has worked off an assumption: that moving lags on tech, so the product didn't have to keep up.
That assumption was always shakier than it looked. Right now it's falling apart.
We wrote a piece about what's actually happening with moving software pricing, why the "premium" tier in many of these products does less work than the invoice suggests, and what operators should be asking at their next renewal.
โ The difference between a fair premium and a status quo premium, and the one-question test for which you're paying
โ Why "features vs. functions" is the lens that protects you from paying premium for what should be baseline
โ What a vendor's dev-side (vs sales team) hiring tells you about where their energy actually goes
The technology is finally catching up to where good operators have already been.
For too long, vertical SaaS worked off a comfortable assumption: that moving was slow to adopt technology, so the product didn't have to keep up. That assumption was always shakier than it looked.