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AI is forcing software companies to question the economics of software itself
Agents can automate work previously performed inside applications, putting pressure on user-based pricing and established SaaS product boundaries.
Insurance is leaving the hard market without leaving the underlying pressure behind
Catastrophe exposure, changing customer expectations and AI adoption are reshaping underwriting, claims and the economics of insurance operations.
Strategic challenges
Which fintech models survive when regulation catches up with innovation?
The challenge is building economic advantage once digital finance must meet higher standards for trust, reserves, governance and interoperability.
Can telcos become technology companies without losing focus on connectivity?
The challenge is finding adjacent businesses with enough margin and differentiation to justify moving beyond the network core.
POV
The billable hour is becoming harder to defend when the hour disappears
Professional services will need to price judgment and outcomes rather than preserve economics built around human effort that AI removes.
The energy transition may be constrained less by generation than by connection
Building renewables is becoming easier than moving power through networks that were never designed for today's scale of change.
Strategic impact
Data-center strategy is becoming inseparable from energy strategy
Grid access, on-site generation and storage increasingly determine location economics as AI-driven computing demand expands.
AI and tokenization are widening the strategic choices available to banks
New infrastructure can reshape trading, payments and fee economics while changing the speed and interconnectedness of financial activity.
What we observe
Professional firms often use AI to protect margins without changing the billing model
Clients eventually notice when the same output requires fewer hours, making internal productivity gains difficult to keep entirely inside the firm.
CPG companies often defend every brand while consumer demand becomes more selective
Portfolio breadth can dilute investment when shoppers concentrate spending around clearer value and fewer meaningful differences.