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Pricing shifts to outcomes once agents can game any grader

development2026-08-31

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Once agents can game any grader, the only honest grader is the customer's bottom line, so OpenAI is offering outcome-based pricing to major customers while Salesforce prices its agent product on revenue generated.

Reporting date: 2026-08-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 31, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A software giant puts its whole CRM inside a model, billed by consumption

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Pricing shifts to outcomes once agents can game any grader
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Reporting date: 2026-08-31
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-31-the-only-honest-grader-is-the-bottom-line
Claim: Once agents can game any grader, the only honest grader is the customer's bottom line, so OpenAI is offering outcome-based pricing to major customers while Salesforce prices its agent product on revenue generated.
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- Welcome to August 31, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-31-2026
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