S1E5: Agent Talk #5: Mickey Haslavsky (Enso) - SaaS is Dead, Long Live $49 AI Agents

Manny hosts Mickey Haslavsky of Enso, who's flipping the script on AI agents in the most refreshing way. Mickey says their mission at Enso is to reduce the prices of services, just in general, for small businesses. While lots of AI companies chase enterprise dollars or build complex multi-agent systems, Mickey's team is printing money with a simple contrarian approach: deliver "good enough" AI agents to small businesses at a flat $49/month. Some key insights from our conversation: * "SaaS is pretty much dead... some of the agents that we're building, you would have to raise like a seed round like three years ago, like raise like $5 million and have a team of like 10 engineers to build them." * "I don't buy this story of losing jobs. What's really important is reaching those who couldn't afford an agency before, who couldn't pay $3,000 for SEO or $5,000 for social media design." * "SMBs don't churn because they go out of business - they churn because they pivot constantly. That's why our unlimited access model works." Mickey's belief that LLMs will become completely commoditized, allowing companies like his to use cheaper models from anywhere (including Deepseek) to deliver services that previously required expensive agencies. The future might not belong to the fanciest AI, but to those who make it accessible, affordable, and actually useful for the millions of SMBs who just need to get things done. What do you think? Is this the true democratization of AI, or are there limits to the "good enough" approach? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit agenttalk.substack.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.