Crespo: Thin AI wrappers will die; deep workflow SaaS will win
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Eléonore Crespo is the co-founder and CEO of enterprise planning platform Pigment. She discusses whether AI will replace vertical software applications.
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“If you are building a layer, like a marketing tool that is just a layer, probably you can be killed by AI. If you're building something more fundamental that, you know, requires like, for instance, at Pigment, you know, we have this huge database, huge compute power, UX that needs to, you know, work with workflows for hundreds, if not thousands of people in your company. There, you will need more AI on the shelf coming from SaaS.”
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