---
title: "Anti-money"
description: "Sam Goodwin frames Alchemy as reducing SaaS products to libraries and shifting value elsewhere."
group: concept
terms:
  - "anti-money"
sources:
  - https://youtu.be/MtKHzAH6uXM?t=2355
---

# Anti-money

Sam describes Alchemy as "anti-money": reduce SaaS products to libraries, then ask what remains valuable to manage. He names secrets and observability in that discussion. [Watch from 39:15](https://youtu.be/MtKHzAH6uXM?t=2355).

This is Sam's framing in [his Alchemy conversation](/lore/devtools-fm-sam-goodwin-alchemy), not a claim that every SaaS business follows the same model.