Outcome-based pricing is the buzzword of the year. Walk into any RevOps conference and three speakers will tell you it's the future of B2B SaaS. Roee Hartuv, who has redesigned pricing inside companies on both sides of the Atlantic, says it's a trap for almost everyone trying to adopt it.

Roee spent four years at Winning by Design — the firm that built the Bowtie model — leading the revenue architecture team and teaching their flagship course to operators globally. A year and a half ago he made a sharp call: of every GTM lever an operator can pull, pricing and packaging produces the fastest and biggest results. So he walked away from being a generalist and now works on nothing else.

In this conversation with LeanScale co-founder Anthony Enrico, Roee breaks down the order of operations every founder gets wrong (start with packaging, not price), the three-question test that decides whether outcome-based pricing actually fits your business, why traditional SaaS companies bolting AI onto seat-based models are quietly bleeding money, and the validation journey that lets you reprice your most important customers without losing them.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARNWhy pricing and packaging is the most overlooked growth lever in B2B SaaSThe order every founder gets wrong: why packaging comes first and price point comes lastWhy outcome-based pricing is a trap for horizontal AI products — and the three-question test that decides whether it fits youHow to design packaging around jobs to be done instead of feature bundlesThe complexity budget — why your ACV determines how complex your pricing can beHow AI flipped SaaS unit economics and what to do about cost-to-serve you can't measureThe $40M bootstrap story: how AI launched on a seat-based model nearly killed a profitable companyHow to make usage-based pricing palatable to CFOs who hate unpredictabilityThe validation journey that lets you reprice your biggest customers without losing themWhy pricing and packaging should be revisited every product or sales cycle, not every five years

CHAPTERS00:00 — Cold open + intro01:42 — Why pricing is the most overlooked growth lever in B2B04:27 — Why you start with packaging, not pricing06:18 — Packaging by jobs to be done vs. by features07:16 — Why the price point matters least in B2B09:20 — The complexity budget framework10:46 — How AI broke SaaS pricing economics15:51 — The $40M bootstrap company that bled out on AI17:50 — Why outcome-based pricing is a trap for most companies22:47 — Roee's three-question test for outcome-based pricing26:10 — Designing usage-based pricing CFOs will accept31:12 — Building packaging around jobs to be done in practice34:41 — The validation journey: repricing without losing customers37:50 — How often you should revisit pricing42:24 — How to work with Roee + wrap

ABOUT THE GUESTRoee Hartuv is a pricing and packaging advisor based in Berlin who works with B2B SaaS and AI companies on both sides of the Atlantic. He spent nearly four years at Winning by Design — the firm that pioneered the Bowtie model — where he led the revenue architecture team and taught their flagship revenue architecture course to operators globally. Before consulting, Roee spent more than a decade in software sales, from solution engineer to sales leadership. A year and a half ago, he narrowed his focus exclusively to pricing and packaging after seeing it consistently produce the fastest and biggest results of any GTM lever.

ABOUT THE LEANSCALE PODCASTThe LeanScale Podcast is the show for GTM operators building the next generation of revenue infrastructure. Hosted by Anthony Enrico, co-founder of LeanScale.

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Why Outcome-Based Pricing Is a Trap for Most AI Companies | Roee Hartuv on Pricing & Packaging

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Why Outcome-Based Pricing Is a Trap for Most AI Companies | Roee Hartuv on Pricing & Packaging