Resolution as a Service (RaaS) is the pricing and architectural model in which enterprise software is priced on problems solved rather than the number of users who log in. The research published here — the RaaS Category Manifesto, the Biological Middleware Tax market analysis, and The Seat Is Dead research brief — constitutes the primary evidence base for that framework and the transition it describes.

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Research

Original analysis on the economics of agentic software. Primary-sourced. Built for operators, not observers.

Research Brief · May 2026

The Unmanaged Resolution Economy: Sizing AI Agent Task Completions Across Enterprise and SMB Markets, 2026–2030

Approximately 117 billion AI agent task completions will occur across US enterprise and SMB markets in 2026. Fewer than 3% carry outcome-based pricing. Primary research sizing the governance gap and the commercial liability it creates at renewal.

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Research Brief · April 2026

The Seat Is Dead: How Agentic AI Is Forcing a Complete Rewrite of Enterprise Software Pricing

ServiceNow disclosed that 50% of its net new business no longer comes from seat-based pricing. Workday disclosed headcount reduction as a direct revenue risk in its own 10-K. This brief documents the transition using primary earnings transcripts and SEC filings from eight major enterprise software vendors.

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Market Analysis · 2026

The Biological Middleware Tax: Quantifying the Cost of Human Intermediation in Agentic Software Markets

A market sizing analysis of the economic drag created by legacy headcount-dependent software architectures, and the opportunity that opens as agentic systems absorb that cost.

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Manifesto · 2026

The RaaS Manifesto: Resolution as a Service and the Architecture of Post-Seat Software

The category argument for Resolution as a Service. Names the structural threat to seat-based vendors, defines the alternative architecture, and maps the transition path for companies willing to act before the renewal cycle forces their hand.

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