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Markets2026-08-20 · source-backed
They replaced Atlassian Statuspage, roughly $65,000/year driven by ~26,000 billable notification subscribers. The breakdown: 52 hours of requirements, 88 hours of spec prep for agents, 160 hours of agent tooling and orchestration, 162 hours of MVP, and 537 hours of production hardening. Total ~1,050 hours across two engineers over four months, about $109,500 including only ~$4,500 in AI tokens, against forecast operating costs of $12,400 to $25,000 a year. (Fivetran) Payback is real by year two. But hardening cost more than requirements, the agent harness and the entire MVP combined, and $4,500 of tokens against $105,000 of human time is the honest ratio nobody puts in the pitch deck.
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