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What Your MRR Schedule Isn’t Telling You

Posted on May 19, 2026May 19, 2026by Ben Murray
arr revenue intelligence

Most SaaS companies already have the data they need to understand their revenue base. It’s sitting in their billing system, invoice exports, MRR schedules, CRM, and financial statements. The problem is not always more data. The problem is structure and data coordination. For years, we have used customer revenue data to build MRR schedules, ARR […]

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The Real Economics of SaaS versus AI Companies

Posted on November 18, 2025November 18, 2025by Ben Murray
saas math vs ai math

There is a lot of hype and clickbait out there on SaaS math versus AI math. And that SaaS companies are dead, and SaaS metrics are dead. The tweet below got me thinking about SaaS economics versus AI economics. It’s a catchy take on AI versus SaaS. But is it true? “AI companies running at […]

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