The SaaS Hourglass: Where Does Your Product Sit On The New Software Stack?

The SaaS Hourglass: Where Is Your Product? | FourWeekMBA

The SaaS Hourglass

Where does your product sit on the new software stack? Value concentrates at the top and bottom — the middle gets hollowed out.

Orchestration
Agent coordination, intent, outcomes
▲ Value concentrates here
▼ Squeezed ▼
UI-Dependent Apps
Dashboards, workflows, manual tools
▲ Squeezed ▲
▼ Value concentrates here
Proprietary Data
Knowledge graphs, domain data, context
Answer 4 questions to find your position on the hourglass
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