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A16Z: Enterprise AI Spending is Growing 75% a Year.

SaaStr

a16Z recently surveyed over 100 leading CIOs across 15+ industries to get the latest pulse on enterprise AI spend in software. The learnings aren’t a surprise — but they are useful to see just how core AI spend has become in the enterprise. Top 5 SaaStr Learnings: Enterprise AI in 2025 1. The Price War : Google’s Gemini 2.5

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AI and the Bottom Line with Canva’s CCO: How They Built a $7B Enterprise Motion on 16 Billion AI Interactions

SaaStr

How Canva’s CCO Built a $7B Enterprise Motion While Preserving PLG Culture Rob Giglio, Canva’s Chief Customer Officer, shares the playbook for scaling from 170M to 230M monthly active users while building enterprise sales without compromising company culture. Top 5 Takeaways 1.

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Syllable.ai

SaaStr

The Enterprise-Grade Platform That Makes AI Voice Agents Actually Work at Scale We’re proud to announce that Syllable is returning as a partner for SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2026 , following their tremendous success and impact at our 2025 event. This isn’t a demo—it’s enterprise-grade monitoring and analytics.

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5 Things That Are Actually Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad’s CEO and a16z

SaaStr

AI-powered Customer Onboarding and Customer Support We’re seeing a lot of companies using either AI tools they built themselves or through 3rd-party AI SaaS vendors have success helping users understand a new behavior or use a product for the first time. What’s Currently Working in AI for SaaS 1.

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Welcome Back Duplo Cloud & Pylon to SaaStr Annual 2026! 🎉

SaaStr

What Pylon Does : Pylon is the modern support platform built specifically for B2B companies. They’ve revolutionized how growing SaaS companies handle customer support with a comprehensive solution designed for the unique needs of B2B businesses.

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Why Data is More Valuable than Code

Tom Tunguz

For example, an inbound email comes into a customer support desk, “Was I double charged this month?” ” An agentic workflow would query the billing system, the contract system, & the email drafting tool to draft an email to the customer with distinct language for that persona.

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Why SaaStr’s AI is So Good: Tons of Data. Tons of Training. And Daily QA.

SaaStr

They work with customers to understand their specific use cases, then iterate on the AI until it actually works for real-world scenarios. For the better part of the last decade, it’s been broadly assumed that product-led growth (PLG) is superior to implementation-heavy enterprise software. But AI has changed that.

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