Which CRM Should You Use in 2026/2027? Follow the Agents
What CRM should you use today? One of the classics, Salesforce or HubSpot? If so, which? Or one of the next generation, from Lightfield to Monaco to Aurasell? I was just asked this question by the CRO of a leading AI company that is planning to add 250 sellers this...
Anthropic Just Passed OpenAI in Revenue. While Spending 4x Less to Train Their Models
Both OpenAI and Anthropic dropped major revenue disclosures within days of each other this week. OpenAI confirmed $2 billion in monthly revenue alongside a $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation. Anthropic confirmed $30 billion in annualized run-rate, up from...
It’s Sunday on Slack. No One Told Our AI Agents They Didn’t Have to Check In.
I woke up Sunday morning morning, grabbed my coffee, and opened Slack. No one’s working. Except … well that’s not quite right anymore. Two highly detailed reports were already waiting for me. Posted at midnight and 9:00 AM, respectively. Our...
OpenAI’s $122B “VC Round” Is Vendor Deals, Contingent Capital, and a Guaranteed Return It Arguably Can’t Afford
The three anchors are a cloud vendor, a chip vendor, and a holding company with a circular revenue deal. The actual VC-style capital is a fraction of the headline. OpenAI closed $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31, 2026. But it’s not...
We Can Never Go Back to Working Without AI Agents
Amelia, our Chief AI Officer, and I had a conversation the other day that felt like stating the obvious. But maybe it’s worth saying out loud. We literally could not go back to running SaaStr without our AI agents. Not “wouldn’t want to.” Could...
What CIOs Are Most Looking to Replace with AI Today
The question every B2B exec should be asking right now is not whether CIOs are looking to replace software with AI. They are. The question is which software, and how fast. Redpoint surveyed 141 CIOs in March 2026 and asked a direct question: in which software...
How We Built Our AI VP of Customer Success, “Qbee” — And How You Can Build Yours
We’ve now built 20+ AI agents and 12+ vibe coded apps used 800,000+ times at SaaStr. We’ve shared how we rolled out our AI SDRs, and how we built / vibe’d our AI VP of Marketing as well as a bunch of AI-powered VC tools that have done almost a million...
5 Honest Lessons on How AI is Actually Rewiring B2B Sales (From Salesforce, Momentum, and Mangomint)
We put three very different revenue leaders on stage at SaaStr AI London: Greg Beltzer CCO of Salesforce Agentforce (former CIO), Ashley Wilson COO and co-founder Momentum (AI-native B2B company), and Marchelle Mooney from Mangomint (VP of Sales running a very SMB...
Our AI VP of Marketing “10K” Said To Drop Prices. Our 10+ Years of Data Said Otherwise. Our AI VP Marketing Was Right.
SaaStr AI Annual 2026 Attendance Is Up +41%. Don’t thank the humans on our team. Thank 10K. Our AI VP of Marketing. For the better part of a decade, we had a working theory about SaaStr AI Annual ticket pricing. All our spreadsheets and human analysis confirmed...
It’s Just Easier to Work With AI Agents Than Humans. And That’s Why 2027 Worries Me.
We now have 25+ AI agents running in production at SaaStr. And don’t get me wrong — they are work. We spend 90+ minutes a day “meeting” with them. Iterating on tasks, copy, and more. They manage us, we manage them. It’s just easier to...
What 141 CIOs and $765 Billion in Capex Tell Us About Where B2B Software Is Headed: The Latest From Redpoint
Redpoint Ventures just put out their latest 70-slide market update this month that is one of the most data-dense look at where B2B software actually stands right now. I read the whole thing. Here are the 10 learnings that matter most for B2B + AI founders and...
What the Co-Founder and CTO of FAL Learned Building an AI-Native Business From Scratch
Gorkem Yurtseven is the CTO and co-founder of FAL, an $8B generative media platform that hosts open and closed source image and video models and exposes them as APIs through its own inference engine. He joined us at the last SaaStr AI Annual, and here’s what...
Our AI Customer Success Agent Is Working Harder Than 95% of Human CSMs I’ve Worked With. Maybe More Than 95%.
Here’s what happened yesterday. At 8:37am, our AI Customer Success “QBee” agent sent out 150+ personalized sponsor update emails for SaaStr AI Annual 2026. Not a batch blast. Not a mail merge with a first-name token. Every single email was genuinely...
Five AI Agent Vendors Asked Us to Try Their Product This Week. Just One Got Deployed. Here’s the Difference.
This week alone, five leading AI Agent vendors reached out asking us to try their products, and another 20-30 LinkedIn’d us or emailed us hoping to get our time. From Public companies to hot startups. All of them. The problem: we already run 30+ AI Agents at...
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