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Why Series A Pitches Now Include an AI Agent Budget Slide
In this episode of The Series A Show, Lucas and Luna explore a fresh trend appearing in early-stage pitch decks: the dedicated 'AI agent budget' slide. As startups deploy AI agents across sales, support, and operations, founders are learning that these software employees come with real costs—token spend, API fees, compute, and the hidden expenses of orchestration and failure recovery. Lucas breaks down why investors are no longer satisfied with vague promises of AI efficiency and are instead demanding concrete numbers on agent-related burn. He references a fictional but…
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