From SaaS to AGaaS
If there is one sentence that can explain the transition we’re going through, in the software world, that is “SaaS is charged for access to tools. AGaaS charges for the execution of outcomes.”
That sentence is simple. Its implications are not.
To understand them fully — to trace how a pricing shift cascades into a complete restructuring of the enterprise software economy — you need to start one layer deeper: not at the pricing model, but at the architecture that made the old model possible in the first place.
What Is AGaaS — and Why That Name?
AGaaS stands for Agentic-as-a-Service.
The naming follows the same convention as the cloud era’s taxonomy:
SaaS — Software-as-a-Service (pay to access a software product)
PaaS — Platform-as-a-Service (pay to build on a platform)
IaaS — Infrastructure-as-a-Service (pay to use computing resources)
AGaaS — Agentic-as-a-Service (pay for autonomous work to be executed on your behalf)
The generational framing matters. Every prior “as-a-service” shift rewrote the industry’s value hierarchy. IaaS ended the era of on-premise servers. PaaS commoditized deployment infrastructure. SaaS commoditized software installation. GaaS is commoditizing human execution — and that is a larger disruption than any that came before it, because human execution was the assumption underneath all previous layers.
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