An Hour With Our Top AI Agent Cost $13.42. You Can’t Hire Anyone For That.
Amelia our Chief AI Officer pinged me this morning with a screenshot and three words: “10K making less than … minimum wage.” This is what she was looking at. 10K, our AI VP of Marketing, had just wrapped a focused work session. The summary read: Time...
$500M ARR, 60 Engineers, Cash-Flow Positive: How Higgsfield Actually Runs, With CEO Alex Mashrabov
We use Higgsfield almost every day at SaaStr AI. If you’ve watched any of our short videos, the intro to The Agents with me and Amelia, the event promos, the sponsorship teasers, all of it is built on Higgsfield. We’re also a proud early investor through...
Don’t Put AI on Your Hot Leads. Put It on the Ones Your Reps Will Never Call. There’s Millions in Revenue There.
From The Agents, our weekly podcast on how we deploy and run AI agents at SaaStr, and how to do it yourself. The other night I was talking with an AI CEO and their head of marketing, and they told me the same thing I hear constantly: “We tried AI agents on...
One Way to Build a Great AI Agent: Just Start With a Dashboard, Then Add the Agent
You can buy an AI agent to get started. There are great ones out there, and that’s a perfectly fine place to begin. You can see our full AI Agent stack here, and just copy us. But if you want to build your own, here’s one simpler way to just … get...
The Builder’s Economy: 10 Metrics from ICONIQ’s Newest 2026 State of AI Report
ICONIQ just released the third edition of its State of AI report, subtitled “The Builder’s Economy,” built on a Q2 2026 survey of roughly 305 executives at software companies building AI products. The thesis moved in six months. The January edition...
How Gamma Hit $100M ARR With a Team of 50: CEO Grant Lee’s Top 4 Lessons. And Top 5 Mistakes
Gamma is the anti-PowerPoint. Grant Lee and two former Optimizely colleagues set out to kill the blank page problem, and five years later they’re at $100M ARR, 50 million users, and 600,000 paying subscribers. Profitably. With a team of 50. They did the bulk of...
Your Agents Should Beat Your Best Reps, Not Match Them. And 14 Other Hard Truths About B2B + AI Today, From Our SaaStr AI Annual AMA
We closed out SaaStr AI 2026 with our deep dive AMA, and the theme this year: software is the least static it has ever been. The products we run change more in a month now than they used to in years. The old playbooks work but they are just … too slow. Planning...
5 Simple Reasons We Won’t All Vibe Code Our Own HubSpot or Salesforce
Someone on X this week made a claim that has truth in, but also radically overstates things: “I’ve built AI agents that do everything HubSpot would have done for me and more. And I’m not technically inclined.” I believe him. Because we’ve...
Tired vs. Wired: Our Deep Dive on Why Software Spend Is Up Record Amounts … Yet Half of SaaS Is Still Dying
Two things are true in B2B right now, and they look like they can’t both be true. Total software spend is growing 15% this year, the fastest in a decade, up from 12.8% last year. Gartner has it going from $1.2T to $1.4T. At the same time, public software is...
Vercel Took a 10-Person SDR Team Down to 1. The Whole Thing Costs $5,000 a Year. With Vercel’s COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser.
Vercel’s COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser ran go-to-market at Google and Stripe for roughly a decade each before joining Vercel. Six weeks into the job, in June 2025, she stood up a go-to-market engineering team with one mandate: bring agents to everything in GTM. That...
The Agents Is Back. Outbound Isn’t Dead. Our Agents Are Collapsing Into Each Other. And Collections Just Went on Autopilot.
Everyone keeps telling you the future is 100 specialized agents. In our stack, the opposite is happening. On the latest episode of The Agents, Amelia and I walked through the newest addition to our stack: an AI VP of Finance that went into production this week. The...
Figma Grows 46% and Trades at 6x. Everyone Else Growing 30%+ Trades at 15-36x.
Figma went public on July 31, 2025 at $33 a share, popped 250% on day one to close at $115.50, and got valued near $68 billion. It peaked at $142.92. This week it trades around $19, with a market cap near $10 billion. That is down roughly 87% from the high. Down about...
The Agent Playbooks from Salesforce, Snowflake, Databricks, Harvey, and Lovable: Inside SaaStr AI 2026
The main stage at SaaStr AI 2026 in San Mateo ran end to end on agents. Agents in production, carrying quota, writing to systems of record, and reshaping how companies are built. Below is a session-by-session recap of maintage on our biggest day, with every speaker...
The Monthly Brand Engine: How Monaco Manufactured a New Viral Moment Every 30 Days
Great Marketing is a Sequence. AI Means You Should Do Even More Of It. AI in GTM gives you back time. But what do you do what that time? Sam Blond CEO Monaco and ex-CRO of Brex came to SaaStr AI 2026. with a tutorial on how to build a repeatable engine for a major...
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