<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>WorkOS on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/workos/</link><description>Recent content in WorkOS on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:31:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/workos/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Startup ARR is a six-month rental now, and other fundraising math that broke</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-founders/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:31:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-founders/</guid><description>New research from Madrona finds 77% of enterprises reevaluate AI vendors every six months or continuously, turning claimed ARR into a much softer number than SaaS founders are used to. A NYU professor argues venture capital&amp;rsquo;s tilt toward scaling over profitability has become its weakest link, with founders forced into a binary: stay small and own the cap table, or raise and dilute. WorkOS shipped Agent Auth so agents get short-lived scoped tokens instead of borrowed user sessions, while Google rolled out voice-first Workspace features across Gmail, Docs, and Keep.</description></item><item><title>The New Valley: Why $5M-$25M ARR Is Where AI Startups Go to Die</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-founders/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:38:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-founders/</guid><description>Series A financing for AI startups has hit a wall. Carta data shows just 15.4% of Q1 2022 seed companies reached a Series A within two years, down from 30.6% for 2018 vintage companies, creating a &amp;ldquo;stall zone&amp;rdquo; between $5M and $25M in ARR that investors call the new valley. Meanwhile, a working CFO details how he&amp;rsquo;s churning SaaS products in 2026 by quoting double the price of Claude, and WorkOS launches Relay to keep credentials out of AI agent context. Cloudflare&amp;rsquo;s new Adaptive Intelligence engine reframes bot defense around economics, and a data-driven argument shows that adding more AI agents can make teams slower, with output dropping from 70k to 67k lines per month going from 4 to 8 agents.</description></item></channel></rss>