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Wade Foster

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Model choice involves cost and task accuracy

Wade Foster says the leading model on Zapier’s Automation Bench completed about 40% of its automation tasks accurately. He describes cheaper models as costing less while performing reasonably well, and argues that organizations should be able to choose models for different workflows.

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It performs about 40% of the tasks accurately, which is the highest that there is. Now, it's more expensive than, say, something like Gemini 3.7, which is, does pretty good but does it at a fraction of the cost.

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No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

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Workflow visualizations help people check intent

Wade Foster says visualizing workflows helps people check whether an automation does what they intended and provides documentation they can share.

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humans still very much benefit from visualization of those workflows though. That visualization helps them, uh, verify is this thing doing what I intended it to do? It acts as documentation

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No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

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Fixed seat prices may fit fewer AI product experiences

Wade Foster questions fixed seat-based pricing when intelligence is a central part of the product experience, while allowing that it may still make sense in some areas. He expects usage-based or outcome-based pricing to become more common.

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for the most part, seat-based pricing is dead or dying. I think it may still make some sense in some small areas, but by and large, when you're, when intelligence is such a core part of these product experiences, I don't see how a fixed seat-based pricing mechanism really makes much sense

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No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

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