Field co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie doesn’t assume AI brokers will substitute enterprise SaaS (software-as-a-service) corporations. As an alternative, he believes that the extra probably future is a hybrid mixture of SaaS plus brokers, he stated, talking onstage on the Trendster Disrupt 2025 convention on Wednesday.
“Usually, after you have a enterprise course of, you need to have the ability to outline that in, successfully, enterprise logic with deterministic techniques — simply because the danger of that altering any given day could be very excessive,” defined Levie.
“For those who’re doing one thing mission vital — we’ve already seen nice examples of both knowledge being leaked due to brokers, or an agent going and, you recognize, perhaps blowing up your database or doing one thing in manufacturing you didn’t count on. So that you wish to have some kind of ‘church and state’ between the deterministic facet of your software program and the non-deterministic facet.”
He painted an image of a way forward for enterprise software program the place the SaaS is used for the core enterprise workflow, after which the brokers journey on prime of that. These brokers could be useful with making choices, automating workflows, or, primarily, simply accelerating no matter course of the individual was making an attempt to do within the system, the exec stated.
As well as, Levie identified that this reconfiguration would dramatically affect the enterprise mannequin of enterprise SaaS.
“The factor that I’m very satisfied of is we’ll have about 100 instances extra, perhaps 1,000 instances extra, brokers than now we have folks. So that you’ll have far more customers of that software program system, or SaaS, as brokers,” Levie stated.
In consequence, the standard “per-seat” enterprise mannequin would not work, and as an alternative, corporations must promote some type of consumption and volume-oriented use instances with AI brokers.
These modifications are a market alternative for startups, notably these which can be constructing for the agent-first period, fairly than larger corporations which can be making an attempt to combine brokers into present processes.
Smaller startups, he stated, haven’t any enterprise processes to alter, to allow them to design a brand new course of in an agent-first means.
This presents a chance for startups to construct options for the enterprise area to make the change administration course of simpler and extra palatable, Levie stated.
He inspired entrepreneurs to capitalize on this shift by constructing.
“We’re on this window proper now that now we have not been in for about 15 years, which is — there’s an entire platform shift occurring in tech that’s opening up a spot for a brand new set of corporations to emerge,” Levie stated.
“And I might simply, you recognize, attempt to totally exploit that.”





