Stripe: vertical SaaS is moving beyond subscriptions

AI is pushing vertical SaaS past pure software. Payments, finance, and agentic commerce become defensibility layers, not add-ons.

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Stripe frames AI as pressure to expand the product surface beyond workflow software, where plain SaaS gets easier to copy.
Payments and financial services are positioned as core revenue infrastructure for vertical platforms, not secondary monetization.
Agentic commerce signals a shift in buying flows: software may trigger, route, and settle transactions inside the same product.

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