The End of SaaS? Yussi Nyfeit on the Rise of Autonomous Execution and the AI CEO
What happens when AI doesn’t just assist—but leads?
In this episode of Real Talk AI, I sat down with Yussi Nyfeit, founder of BXaaS (Business Execution-as-a-Service) and the mind behind the AI CEO Agent, to talk about what comes after SaaS. If the last decade was about tools, dashboards, and integrations, this one might be about something far more autonomous: self-directed systems that can plan, execute, and explain themselves.
We’re entering a phase where businesses want fewer tabs, fewer tools, and fewer people orchestrating complexity behind the scenes. Instead, they want outcomes—clear, fast, accountable. And that’s exactly where Yussi is placing his bet.
From Networks to Autonomous Ops
Yussi’s career arc is unusually well-suited to the AI agent era. He began as a telecom engineer working on infrastructure that couldn’t afford to fail. Later, at Elisa—Finland’s largest telco—he helped pioneer large-scale automation in operations. The result? A system that performs over 100,000 automated network actions per day without human intervention.
“When people talk about agents, they’re often imagining chatbots. But agents aren’t new—we’ve been building real ones in telecom for years. They just didn’t talk back.”
At Elisa, Yussi was also part of the group that pushed the company onto Gartner’s hyper-automation radar. But the experience taught him something deeper: infrastructure isn’t enough. Autonomous execution requires decision-making. And that means mapping AI to the org chart.
What Is the AI CEO Agent?
At the core of BXaaS is a multi-agent architecture that mirrors real-world companies.
A CEO Agent sets high-level goals and defines strategic intent.
Mediator Agents (modeled after C-suite roles) break those goals into workflows.
Worker Agents execute those workflows, interact with external tools, gather data, and report back.
It’s a business logic system that can either be fully AI-driven or hybrid, where human decision-makers supervise or collaborate with agents.
“It’s not about automating humans out. It’s about giving domain experts a structured way to scale their thinking, decisions, and actions.”
Yussi sees it as a radical upgrade from the current state of AI productization—most of which still sits in chat windows or as internal assistants trapped in prototype mode.
Why Now?
Two reasons: economics and pressure.
First, SaaS is bloated. Between skyrocketing CAC, slow adoption curves, and context-switching fatigue, many startups are realizing that simply offering another dashboard isn’t enough. Enterprises want outcomes—not just tooling. A CEO wants revenue growth, not a better UI.
Second, decision velocity has become a strategic risk. Markets shift faster than humans can respond. Teams are overwhelmed. And yet, most organizations haven’t changed the way they make decisions since the early 2000s.
“Founders, executives, operators—we’re already using AI as our back-of-house strategist. But it’s unstructured, invisible, and hard to trace. BXaaS is here to make it explicit, auditable, and scalable.”
Who This Is For
Yussi is building for three groups:
Non-technical founders who want to ship products that do, not just inform
Operators and consultants looking to codify their expertise into scalable delivery
Enterprise teams tired of dashboards and ready to pilot intelligent workflows with measurable ROI
This isn’t a no-code platform. It’s not a framework. It’s closer to an executive operating system—AI that acts, delegates, and adapts.
So Is SaaS Dead?
Not exactly. But according to Yussi, it's going to shrink. We’ll still use tools—but the expectation will shift. The end user won’t be the human. It’ll be the agent. Interfaces will collapse. UX will be replaced with API-first logic that makes decisions and asks for human input only when necessary.
BXaaS is still early, but if you want to understand where product-led growth, agent infrastructure, and AI-native execution are headed—this conversation is your roadmap.
You can request access to the private beta here:
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