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JULY 18, 2025

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work directly with industry leading Generative AI companies, build and own robust, production-grade data integrations used to power advanced foundational models. They have dedicated engineers whose job is to make AI work for each specific customer. But it’s not just about the data.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Activant Capital brought together at SaaStr Annua l a group of break-out next-generation AI enhanced vertical software leaders: the CEOs from Owner.com, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay. At SaaStr Annual they shared their experiences and insights on implementing AI in vertical software companies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2025

What “Working” Means in the Era of AI Apps: The New Enterprise Benchmarks That Matter One of the most common refrains in the generative AI era is that “startups are growing faster than ever” — often with fewer resources. Now this isn’t all start-ups, it’s many of the best ones.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One two is that all ai is what we’re seeing right now what we’re seeing right now is as we’ve heard generative ai there have been other kinds of ai and telemise happened to build one of these other kinds predictive ai that have been around forever for as long as we’ve had you know uh almost as long as we’ve had computers (..)

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average. Let’s unpack the key strategies that drove this remarkable expansion. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

CFOs Are Losing Power to Department Heads (Yes, Really) The Surprise : Department leads now make 24% of final purchase decisions (up from 18%), while CFO influence is declining The Why : Smaller deal sizes mean CFO approval thresholds aren’t triggered as often The Implication : Stop pitching to finance teams first.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2025

of the generative AI chatbot market share, though this represents a decline from 76% in January 2024—indicating growing competition. million daily active users as of 2025. ChatGPT holds 59.5% million monthly active users and 2.9 million mobile app users—roughly 5% of ChatGPT’s user base.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2025

The AI Integration That Actually Matters : Half of SAP’s Q4 cloud order entry included AI. SAP delivered more than 1300 generative-AI use cases in 2024, with more than 30,000 customers using SAP Business AI. But the real story is in the cloud numbers: cloud business earned €17.14

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2025

Let that sink in—99% of marketing leaders are actively investing in generative AI. GenAI investments are already delivering measurable ROI: 49% report improved time efficiency 40% see improved cost efficiency 27% can produce more content and handle more business Just 1% of CMOs said GenAI isn’t currently a priority.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. A chief data officer at a top-five global bank recently shared they have 150 generative AI projects in the lab but zero in production.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A discussion of Andy Wilson ‘s successful exit at Logickull where Jason was an investor and I was an advisor What will be the impact of AI on SaaS budgets? To what extent will companies raid headcount budget to generate AI budget? How to market and sell the ROI of the productivity impact of AI tools?

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Industry leaders have quickly embraced RAG as a way to build more intelligent AI applications. In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments. While the acronym might sound funny, the concept has proven incredibly powerful.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2025

DocUnlock is changing that with cutting-edge generative AI, automating workflows for brokers and eliminating inefficiencies. Writer has carved out a niche in enterprise AI and offers a secure, customizable generative AI platform tailored for businesses which sets it apart from more generalist models like OpenAI.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Alex Kendall AI entrepreneur and enthusiast Alex Kendall is shaking up the world of autonomous driving. a next-generation AI-driven autonomous driving system that adapts to new environments through data-driven learning. As co-founder and CEO of Wayve , he is transforming transportation with AV2.0,

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

AI & ML Features Einstein AI offers lead scoring, opportunity insights, forecast predictions, and now Einstein GPT for generative AI (e.g., auto-generated emails, AI chatbots in service). Extensive AI across products (but often at higher tiers). It also acquired Tableau for top-tier BI analytics.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

It’s based on market creation potential: AI market projected to hit $1T+ by 2030 OpenAI commands 17% market share in generative AI Winner-take-all dynamics in infrastructure B2B Application : If you’re creating a new category, price your rounds based on market potential, not current metrics.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2025

Companies like Ramp (valued at $7.6B), Harvey (built on OpenAI), and Runway are proving that AI-native teams can operate with the efficiency of legacy orgs 10x their size. At Harvey, <100 employees are supporting Fortune 100 legal teams with generative AI agents. The agentic era has begun AI is autonomously executing.

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SaaStr

JULY 6, 2025

The AI Focus: Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence From the outset, NFDG positioned itself as an AI-focused venture fund, anticipating the massive wave of innovation that would sweep through the artificial intelligence sector.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

For instance, companies like Sephora and Amazon have deployed AI-driven recommendation engines. Executives also leverage generative AI for idea generation and reporting. Over time, as the AI learns from exceptions, the automation becomes smarter and even more efficient.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

2) AI infrastructure and AI-native The advancements in AI have enabled developers to build what wasn’t possible just a few years ago. One of our early investments, Writer , is competing successfully in providing full-stack generative AI to the enterprise, against juggernauts like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

No wonder most SaaS companies have jumped on board – one industry report finds that 76% of SaaS vendors already offer AI features in their products, and 38% of SaaS firms launched new generative-AI capabilities in the past year. This confirms that mastering the full AI stack is a strategic priority for tech companies everywhere.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

In this post, well break down what LLMs are, how they differ from AI tools, and why understanding this distinction is key to building successful AI-powered SaaS applications. The past few years have seen an explosion in generative AI AI systems that create content.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

” Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn (all-hands): “AI use will be part of what we look for in hiring.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Generative BI vs. generative AI Generative BI and generative AI are not separate types of AI models but very similar. If you look at it in simple terms, Generative BI is a use case for generative AI. How does generative BI work? It's as easy as that.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

The generative AI revolution has driven explosive growth in Large Language Model (LLM) applications. To build these AI-powered apps (chatbots, automated agents, RAG systems, etc.) more efficiently, developers rely on LLM orchestration frameworks.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

The SaaS landscape is rapidly embracing generative AI. Analysts estimate that up to 6070% of routine tasks could be automated by AI, potentially adding trillions of dollars in value. are already infusing AI into products used by billions. Major platforms (Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc.) Launched in early 2024, Orq.ai

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

. “It’s no longer possible to build a fintech product at scale without using AI,” states Taylor. While AI has been in the DNA of fintech companies for years, recent advancements in large language models and generative AI have created entirely new user models and experiences.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Just most AI-fueled ones. A lot of GTM leaders and marketing leaders are hoping deploying a next-generation AI-first tool will solve their GTM woes. Even with AI fueling it. They are still just running automated cadences. That that alone is the answer. The New GTM is probably more work than the old one.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

Generative AI has exploded by 2025. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Self-serve support: Zendesk goes beyond traditional knowledge bases to incorporate generative AI capabilities that let you save time. For example, instead of writing entire help articles, you could come up with a few bullet points and ask the AI to expand on them.

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