If Users Only Reach Your Product via Agents, Are They Still DAUs? Belsky Says Yes
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-09-03
Scott Belsky raises a question plaguing product teams: if a user leverages a tool's data and functionality daily through agents but never opens the actual product, are they a daily active user? His answer is definitively yes—daily value from the underlying service counts as DAU. Interfaces change; the goal is being an indispensable resource.
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