Why pay for Crunchbase when Claude answers instantly? AI pressures data-SaaS subscriptions
doooyle · x · 2026-10-09
A side-by-side screenshot shows a question answerable via a Crunchbase subscription being trivially resolved by Claude instead. The author argues this is exactly what 'AI will eat SaaS' means for data-lookup tools: when LLMs deliver the answer directly, these products need a fundamentally different value path to justify payment.
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