How this term is used here In this channel's material, usage-based billing comes up in the context of SaaS companies navigating the AI transition. The discussion around Linear—a pre-AI-era SaaS company that rebuilt itself as an agent-native platform—explores what its choices reveal about measuring AI work, and pricing models are part of that picture: when software agents perform the work, how much a customer pays can be tied to how much the product actually does, rather than a flat subscription seat. [^c21e925e-a374-5583-a551-628601b7d1b9@0] The interview with Linear's cofounder and CEO Karri Saarinen, conducted by Dan Shipper, uses this backdrop to examine product strategy and the enduring role of human judgment.