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Ori, PolyAI, Cresta, Writer & Fireworks AI: Is Enterprise Defensibility Possible in an AI's World?

Mike Butcher, May Habib, Russell Banzon, Nicola, Lynn, Amalia, Mahdi

Industry leaders convened to declare that traditional SaaS and seat-based pricing models are collapsing as enterprises pivot to agentic AI, where value is derived from direct outcomes and autonomous revenue generation rather than software access. The consensus emphasizes that architectural advantages are temporary, with true defensibility emerging only through proprietary data flywheels and comprehensive organizational adoption strategies that integrate AI into core workflows. Looking toward 2025, the panel predicts a surge in production-level deployments driven by a tenfold reduction in infrastructure costs, forcing companies to prioritize offensive scaling over defensive postures to survive rapid market disruption.