Salesforce: the AI modules are selling into the installed base at full price

The economics turn on customer acquisition cost. Selling a new module into an existing account carries almost none, so incremental contribution margin on upsell runs far closer to gross margin than the blended figure suggests. Attach is visible in the segment detail. The new modules contributed meaningfully to the quarter with no corresponding increase in sales and marketing, which is what upsell into an installed base looks like. The position: long on Salesforce, entry locked at publication and the exit dated rather than open-ended. The target is stated in the call block above and the horizon with it. Sized to the catalyst rather than to conviction, with the invalidation written into the kill-switch card instead of left implicit. Competitive discounting is the risk that would show up first in realised price. A well-funded competitor buying share would compress the exact metric this argument rests on.