AI App of the Week: Vivun — The AI Sales Engineer That Actually Does the Work
The Bottom Line: Ava by Vivun is an AI sales teammate built by founders with 25+ years in technical sales. It’s not a call summarizer—it preps you before meetings, answers complex questions in real-time during calls, and generates the follow-up materials after....
If AI GTM Tools Were Half as Good As Cursor or Replit, It Would Be a Different World Today. They Will Get There.
We’ve been running AI GTM agents for almost a year now. We use Artisan for outbound, Qualified (now Salesforce) for inbound, Agentforce for Salesforce-native outreach, Delphi for Digital Jason. We’ve sent 20,000+ AI messages and generated over $2M in...
a16z’s State of Markets: $5.5T in Private Unicorns, <5 Public Companies Growing 30%, and 8 Other Data Points You Need to See
a16z released their inaugural “State of Markets” deck this week. Here are the 10 top takeaways for B2B founders and execs: #1. $5.5 Trillion in Private Unicorns — 10x Growth in 10 Years Private tech companies valued above $1B now represent ~$5.5T in...
We Built Our Own AI VP of Marketing. Here’s What It Actually Does.
We didn’t want to build it. Let’s be clear about that upfront. We wanted to buy an AI agentic solution that does what we need in marketing. We looked. We demoed. We really, really tried. But we just couldn’t find one that does what we actually need....
Wing Ventures’ State of the AI in the Enterprise: 50% of Pilots Succeed, 53% See Positive ROI, and 70% See AI Replacing Even More Humans
Wing Ventures interviewed 180+ C-level execs on AI for its new State of the AI in the Enterprise report here. The learnings weren’t radical, but they did quantify a number of interesting observations in AI: #1. 50% of AI Pilots Proceed Into Production A great...
By Late 2025, Replit Got Really Good. Now Imagine If Your Agents Really Could Run 24×7.
When we started on Replit in mid-2025, the idea you could build a commercial-grade B2B app on it was … a fiction. With very short context windows and limited capabilities, thinking you could vibe code a “Salesforce” was borderline ridiculous. Maybe it still is, But …...
Strange World Indeed, January 2026 Edition: The Massive, Unprecedented Divergence Between Public B2B and Private AI B2B
We’re living through something we’ve never quite seen before in B2B software and SaaS. It’s arguably the worst time in our history to be invested in public software stocks. Multiples at all time lows, and crashing hard in 2026. And simultaneously,...
The 6 Threat Vectors Attacking Traditional B2B Software in 2026 (And How to Fight Back)
“Can your team ship AI features that make you truly smile? If you don’t smile — your customers won’t either” Traditional B2B software and SaaS is under assault. The leaders are all still growing, but in most cases slower than ever....
5 Key Takeaways from Anthropic’s Latest Economic Index: Prompting Is Still Critical, AI Can Handle Massive Tasks If You Break Them Up, and Deskilling is a Bigger Issue Than Unemployment
Anthropic just released their fourth Economic Index report—2 million conversations analyzed across Claude.ai and their API. Some of this we know, but Anthropic has the data. My top takeaways: #1. AI Helps Your Best People the Most, Not Your Junior Staff. The Data...
We Had a Bug in One of Our 20+ AI Agents. It Took Forever to Figure Out Which One. This is Going to Be a Real Problem.
So we had a bug in one of our AI Agents the other day. It was still telling people to come to SaaStr AI London 2025 on Dec 1-2. Of course, it already happened. 😅 The issue wasn’t fixing it. The issue was — which agent was saying this?! We have 20+ AI Agents...
We’ve Built 12+ Vibe Coded Apps Used 800,000+ Times. I Love It. But I Still Have To Maintain Them Every Single Day.
The ‘prpsumer’ vibe coding revolution is real. I’m a mass convert. We’ve built 12+ AI-powered apps on SaaStr.ai, and the results have been staggering: 800,000+ total uses across our AI tools 10,000+ used SaaStr.ai to help research and pick their AI agents...
The Dark Side of Hot Seed Rounds in the Age of AI: When Founders Just Keep the Money
A Cautionary Tale from 2025/2026 Here’s something I never thought I’d have to write about, but after watching it happen three times in a single year (really more than that), it’s time we talked about it openly. I’ve now seen three separate VC...
How Filevine Went from SaaS to AI-Native at $200M+ ARR — And Now Makes More Revenue from AI Than SaaS (A Roadmap for the Rest of Us)
Ryan Anderson, CEO of Filevine, shared their AI transformation playbook at SaaStr AI London. Here’s the thing: their new AI revenue now exceeds their SaaS revenue on a quarter-over-quarter basis. This is the roadmap. The Filevine Story: 10 Years of Grinding,...
Freemium is Back — The AI Edition! But You’ll Still Probably Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.
“For Freemium and PLG to work at scale, you probably need millions of folks to use your product. If it’s 1000’s … then go sell it.” Freemium is back. In fact, it’s never been bigger. The Age of AI is build on freemium. ChatGPT is the...
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