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The Productivity Tool Margin Curve: Why Bundling AI Scheduling and Notes Into Process Design Beats Reselling Them
AI productivity tools are the lowest-leverage category for agency revenue because clients can self-serve in 90 seconds.
By InnovaAI ResearchPublished Updated
Why does it matter for agencies?
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60/100AI productivity tools are the lowest-leverage category for agency revenue because clients can self-serve in 90 seconds. The strategic play is to bundle them into a workflow redesign engagement where the tool is the visible artifact, but the billable work is the process design that surrounds it, turning a commodity into a margin-rich service.
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