Databricks: Only 19% of Organizations Have Deployed AI Agents. But They’re Already Creating 97% of Databases.
10 Interesting Learnings from Databricks’ State of AI Agents 2026 Databricks recently released their State of AI Agents report, built from data across 20,000+ organizations including over 60% of the Fortune 500. Here are the 10 learnings that matter most for B2B...
The Top 10 Reasons Your AI Agent Implementation is Failing
We get a lot of emails about this. A lot. Founders, VPs of Sales, CROs, RevOps leaders. They write in and say some version of: “We tried AI SDRs / AI agents / AI support. It didn’t work. We’re not getting the results you talk about at SaaStr. What...
HubSpot Switching AI Pricing From Per Use to Per Resolution. But Does It Really Matter?
So HubSpot just made a big pricing change to its Breeze AI agents. Starting April 14, its AI Customer Agent pricing moves from $1.00 per conversation to $0.50 per resolved conversation. And its Prospecting Agent moves from a flat monthly charge per contact enrolled...
We’ve Deployed 20+ AI Agents. Here Are the 10 Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes
We’ve now deployed 20+ AI agents at SaaStr. We run an eight-figure business on 3 humans and a fleet of agents. We’ve sent 100,000+ hyper-personalized outbound emails, booked hundreds of meetings automatically, had 2.75 million conversations through our AI...
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...
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