AaSS - Agent as Software Solution Definition Released for Small Business Owners
Nov 15, 2026
Alex Gilevich has published the definition of AaSS (Agent as Software Solution), a software ownership model where an AI agent builds, runs and maintains software a business owns, with two public tests and free lessons at aass.co.
Blaine, United States, November 15, 2026 /PressCable/ -- Alex Gilevich has published the definition of a new term, AaSS (Agent as Software Solution), at aass.co. AaSS is a software ownership model where an AI agent builds, runs and maintains software that a business owns, instead of software it rents.
In practice, a business owner describes a problem in plain words: the report that is wrong, the copy-paste between two systems, the tool nobody sells. An AI agent then designs the database, writes the code, connects the business's tools and tests the result. Everything lands in accounts the owner controls: the code, the data, and the agent's rules and memory. The agent stays. When the business changes, the owner tells the agent, and it changes the software. Only the swappable parts, like the AI model and the server, are rented.
The definition comes with two tests that anyone can check without asking its author. The leaving test asks whether an owner can walk away with the data, the code and the process without asking anyone's permission. The loyalty test asks whether the agent's rules and memory live in the owner's files. Two yeses mean AaSS. Any no means some kind of rent, which the site calls fine, as long as the owner knows it is rent.
AaSS is not Agent as a Service (AaaS), which means renting someone else's agent, and it is not "anything as a service" (XaaS). In AaSS the business owns the software, and only swappable parts are rented.
The definition is deliberately honest about costs. Building software got cheap; maintaining it did not, and maintaining software for years is the real cost. AaSS is also not presented as a war on software as a service. Renting still makes sense for many things, and the site says both ways are meant to exist: renting for problems everybody shares, owning for the processes that make a business different. The agent does not replace people either. It works for the person a business already has.
Examples listed on aass.co include connectors that move data between a business's systems, a stock-reorder tool built on the owner's own stock data, a product-data hub that sends a catalog to every channel a business sells on, and a mirror: a copy of a business's data in a database the owner controls, fed from the tools it rents. The site is an example too: AI agents drafted, designed and built it, and Alex G. owns it.
Gilevich explains the idea with a parable that starts with the familiar one about teaching a person to fish. "But teaching is not enough: without the rod (the tools, the hooks, the line, the whole setup) they know how to fish and still go hungry," he said. That is why aass.co pairs the method with the parts to use it: the definition, the two tests, lessons, a rent-or-own check for any one tool, and a free working kit, the SiteCrew AaSS Kit, on GitHub with no email needed.
Gilevich coined the term in September 2026, and the definition was first published on October 2, 2026.
The full definition, the two tests and the lessons are at https://aass.co/what-is-aass
Contact Info:
Name: Alex Gilevich
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Organization: AaSS
Address: 1685 H St #43173, Blaine, WA 98230, United States
Phone: +1-604-345-1126
Website: https://aass.co
Source: PressCable
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