Per-Seat SaaS Is a Liability: A 2026 Operator's Checklist
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In one 24-hour window this week, four independent surfaces converged on the same thesis from four different angles. Palantir's deployment team told the supply-chain industry that SaaS is dead. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told the All-In Podcast that this is the "current SaaSpocalypse" - his third in two decades, and not his first. Hacker News pushed a piece titled "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise" to 275 points, where the top-comment math priced the gap between today's subsidized seat licenses and tomorrow's API-grade reality.