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Per seat, per use or per result: how AI is changing what software vendors charge for

Vendors now bill for a credit, an action or a resolution, and the definition decides the invoice more than the price does. What Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot and Cursor actually wrote, eight questions for a buyer, and how a small vendor picks a unit without giving away its margin.

October 12, 2026

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Biz59 LLC is a small company in New York. We build and run nine products, most of them with one sign-in, and we write about what we see in software, AI and startups.

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AI in business

Open-weight models in a small company: when running your own beats the API bill

Four places a language model can run, priced from the providers' own pages in October 2026, and the break-even for a firm of five to fifty people. On cost alone, your own GPU wins much later than most expect. Where it wins sooner: data that can't leave, a steady queue, hardware you already own.

October 12, 2026

Case study

Case study #2: we ran our own app through AppBro, and it found 12 problems before a customer could

AppBro sets up the pages an app needs for store review. Before asking anyone else to trust it, we used it for iPaid iOwe, an app of ours that is already in the stores. Here's what worked in under a minute, the 12 things that broke, and what we still haven't tested.

October 12, 2026

Guide

Privacy policy and sync for your app without a backend

The app is finished and the store form still wants a privacy policy URL, a support URL and a delete-account page, and your users want their data on a second phone. What the stores really ask for, three ways to cover it, an honest table, and how far our two small tools, AppBro and DBSync, take you before you need a real backend.

October 11, 2026

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