Ptio is a SaaS platform for parametrizing Prompts using CVS, Excel or images from ZIP. This allows you to use a Prompt template thousands of times to generate or transform content at scale.
Ptio includes a library of data transformation steps to reshape inputs or structure outputs, and you can extend it with your own transformations using standard SQL.
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:
