The Agents Episode #006: We Run SaaStrAI on 3 Humans and 21+ AI Agents. Here’s Every Agent, Agent by Agent, With the Numbers.

About this episode

The episode discusses the deployment and operation of AI agents at SaaStr, detailing their development and performance metrics.

The Agents is our weekly podcast on how we deploy and run AI agents at SaaStr, and how to do it yourself. We run SaaStr AI on 3 humans and 21+ AI agents. At SaaStr AI 2026 we did something we’d never done before: we pulled up the back ends of our top agents live, in front of the room, and went through how they really work. Not the demo version. The real version, including the parts that break. This is that walkthrough, agent by agent, with the numbers and the stack behind each one. A few of these were built on Replit. A few are third-party tools we trained. Collectively they’ve handled multi-millions of interactions. Here’s what each one does, what it runs on, and the lessons that surprised even us. The single biggest theme across the whole stack: almost none of these started as agents. They started as a dashboard, a project management tool, a website. They became agents because we kept showing up to work with them every day. 10K: Our AI VP of Marketing 10K runs our marketing. He owns the number, tracks daily revenue across all of go-to-market, handles forecasting, knows every campaign’s performance in real time, and pushes us our top three marketing ideas every single day. He…

People in this episode

Host: Jason M. Lemkin

Topics covered

• AI agents
• SaaS
• marketing
• automation
• technology deployment
• performance tracking

Keywords

• AI agents
• SaaStrAI
• Replit
• marketing automation
• performance metrics
• SaaS tools
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SaaStr, Salesforce, Marketo

Products: SaaStrAI, Replit

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