How AI Agents Are Breaking SaaS Economics with Ki-youn Jung & Abhishek Singh

How AI Agents Are Breaking SaaS Economics with Ki-youn Jung & Abhishek Singh

Author: Venture Guides September 10, 2026 Duration: 29:51
What happens when AI agents scale faster than their economics can support? In this episode of Built Not Born, host Sage Nye sits down with EON co-founders Ki-youn Jung, Co-founder and CEO, and Abhishek Singh, Co-founder and CTO, to explore the infrastructure challenges emerging as enterprises adopt AI agents at scale. They discuss how EON’s experience with escalating compute costs led them from a health-tech application toward building an inference layer designed to anticipate agent behavior, reduce redundant token usage, and lower latency. The conversation examines why token economics could undermine traditional SaaS models, how reusable and deterministic AI outputs can preserve trust through statistical verification, and why infrastructure may represent the bigger opportunity in AI. They also explore the challenges of running agents for weeks or months, including drift, oversight, and maintaining alignment. The episode offers a practical look at building infrastructure for the next era of computing.

Sage Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides, hosts Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast, a series built on the premise that lasting companies are engineered, not discovered by chance. This podcast moves beyond theoretical advice to focus on the tangible mechanics of launching and scaling a business, specifically for founders and leaders in the early, precarious stages. Each episode features frank discussions with a range of voices crucial to the journey-technical founders who have navigated product-market fit, investors who scrutinize traction, and go-to-market experts who specialize in building repeatable sales engines. The conversations are candid by design, stripping away the glossy narratives to examine what actually worked, what failed, and why. Listeners will find a resource devoid of fluff, where proven playbooks and operational realities take center stage. It’s for those who understand that strategy is meaningless without execution, and that a bulletproof go-to-market plan is the foundation upon which everything else is built. Tune in for the real talk needed to translate vision into viable, growing revenue.
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