Build vs. Buy, Rewritten: Is SaaS Actually Dying?

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Updated July 3, 2026.

For twenty years, “build vs. buy” had a boring answer: buy. Why sink engineers into a CRM or a project tracker when someone else already sells a polished one for a few dollars a seat? That logic built the entire software-as-a-service industry. In 2026, it stopped being obvious.

Call it the SaaSpocalypse. In early 2026, roughly $300 billion of market value evaporated once investors did the math on what AI agents actually replace. The thing that made SaaS printing-press profitable, charging per human seat, only works when you need a lot of humans clicking around in the software. Agents click and do the task themselves, so fewer seats get sold.

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Build vs. Buy, Rewritten: Is SaaS Actually Dying?