CROSS-CATEGORY: Companies Collapse 5–10 SaaS Subscriptions Into a Single 'One Agent Per Outcome' Workflow

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The 'one tool per task' model is being replaced by 'one agent per outcome,' with teams and indie builders orchestrating five-to-ten point SaaS subscriptions into a single agent workflow — one widely shared write-up documented cutting a $217/month stack to save ~$2,400/year by replacing tools with task-specific agents on basic APIs. The pattern spans support, sales, research, and admin simultaneously, which is what makes it cross-category rather than a single-niche story. The structural threat to SaaS: the integration/orchestration layer, not any single feature, becomes the product.