Archive - Beyond the Build

August 2025

PLG is Dead. Long Live PLG.

The old product-led growth playbook built SaaS as we know it. But AI has rewritten the rules. Here’s how founders and product leaders must adapt. How AI…

Aug 30 •

PitchBook’s Q2 2025 SaaS Report: What Founders and CEOs Should Take Away

Insights and a founder's action plan for raising money or eyeing an exit in this environment

Aug 9 •

July 2025

Part 4: The New AI SaaS Org

The Great SaaS Rebuild: AI’s Organizational Revolution

Jul 31 •

How Design-Led Companies Win - and Everyone Else Plays Catch-Up

Design isn’t about shipping prettier UIs. It’s about reorienting the business around experience.

Jul 26 •

Part 3: The AI Pricing Supernova

How Usage-Based and Hybrid Pricing Are Reshaping Revenue Predictability and Product Design

Jul 23 •

Part 2: AI is Breaking SaaS Metrics

Why CAC Payback, the Rule of 40, and Gross Margin no longer tell the full story. And what will replace them.

Jul 15 •

Who Leads Your Customer's AI Transformation?

How CSMs, Product, and IT Teams Partner to Operationalize AI

Jul 10 •

Part 1: The AI R&D Team Compression

How engineering teams are shrinking, and why that’s not a correction, it’s a recalibration.

Jul 8 •

AI - The End of Software as We Know It

How AI, pricing, and automation are dismantling and rebuilding the software industry from the inside out.

Jul 3 •

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