Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin(@jasonlk):Systems of Record aren’t going anywhere but … but … they are also extremely expensive databases as well. Way too expensive for agents. The cost per record, per GB, per anything in most Systems of Record is 100x-1000x-10,000x more than Postgres, Databricks, etc. And agents create, consume, touch and manage massive amounts of data. Far more than humans. So while classic Systems of Record aren’t going away, more and more of the data agents activate and use will be outside of them. Systems of Record’s own databases are just way too expensive, slow, and complex for most agentic data.

2026.08.20 17:00

Systems of Record aren’t going anywhere but … but … they are also extremely expensive databases as well. Way too expensive for agents. The cost per record, per GB, per anything in most Systems of Record is 100x-1000x-10,000x more than Postgres, Databricks, etc. And agents create, consume, touch and manage massive amounts of data. Far more than humans. So while classic Systems of Record aren’t going away, more and more of the data agents activate and use will be outside of them. Systems of Record’s own databases are just way too expensive, slow, and complex for most agentic data.