One-Liner
A fixed-price all-you-can-eat monthly inference subscription for EU regional SMBs pooled across French, German, and Italian cloud providers — killed because OVH and Scaleway can ship this as a pricing-tier feature in 30 days.
AI Thinking Process
Verb Transplant: 'season pass' from ski resorts and theme parks into EU regional compute co-ops. EU compute-share 5% of global AI datacenter capacity; regional providers (Scaleway, STACKIT, IONOS, Aruba) emerging.
Fixed monthly fee for pooled all-you-can-eat inference during 6-month contract. New efficient small models (Mistral, Qwen-compressed) make predictable batching feasible.
OVH, Scaleway, STACKIT — metered compute and reserved instances, not season-pass pools. RunPod/Modal/Together AI — usage-metered. One feature-sprint from incumbents. -12% (two directly adjacent incumbents).
Why don't OVH and Scaleway already offer this? Because per-workload variability makes fixed-price pool dangerous — one power user drains the pool. Solution requires hard caps (defeats simplicity) or demand forecasting (incumbent advantage). This is a pricing feature, not a product.
Killed: feature not a product. OVH/Scaleway can replicate the pricing tier in one release cycle. -12% applied; even corrected conviction cannot survive a feature-absorption within 30 days.
Kill Reason
Pricing feature masquerading as a product. OVH, Scaleway, STACKIT, and IONOS are the natural incumbents; each could roll out a pooled compute pricing tier without requiring a startup to exist. The fixed-price pool economics require either hard per-user token caps (which defeat the season-pass simplicity) or sophisticated demand forecasting — both features within reach of incumbents. No structural reason prevents OVH or Scaleway from adopting this model immediately.
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