Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Subscribe now The Year of “Enterprise AI” One of the biggest challenges facing AI systems in enterprises today is the “last mile” problem: how do you make AI both reliable and accurate for specific enterprise use cases? This is what I’m calling “Enterprise AI.”

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

At SaaStr’s AI Summit during the SaaStr Annual , René chatted with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin about how BILL has reached half a million customers and $1.3B With a trillion in payment volume coming through BILL in the last five years, managing the payment and compliance engine has required an ongoing effort of a sizable team.

SMB 310

SMB Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 310

Payrix

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At Payrix from Worldpay, we have an internal team of risk management experts dedicated to helping software companies, like yours, manage payment processing, fraud prevention, and compliance. Explore risk and compliance advice for platforms. compliance. compliance. Here’s what they want to know.

Merchant Services 130

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 130

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2024

AI will transform software sales. Most of the discourse so far has focused on how AI upends the sellers’ worldview. When researching software, operational buyers & procurement teams alike will use AI to research different offerings. AIO, (AI-optimization), will become necessary to ensure the results are accurate.

AI 293

AI Software compliance Consulting 293

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

AI 296

AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 296

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2024

AI adoption is slower than expected in many spaces. Most leaders wants to inject AI into their business to develop a competitive advantage. The pace of innovation, the early understanding of AI internals, & the non-determinism compound to create doubt. But no such standard exists for AI - yet.

AI 235

AI Outsourced Development compliance Innovation 235

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. Many of them AI based. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Perfect for a LLM!

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x At SaaStr Annual , IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes. How to scale AI across your business.

AI 302

AI Technology Scale Startup 302

Scytale

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scytale announces its vision for implementing an AI-driven future of compliance, as well as fully supporting AI security and privacy frameworks in its compliance automation platform. However, AI must also be implemented with caution, respect for data privacy, and adherence to ethical standards.

compliance 52

compliance AI Artificial Intelligence Innovation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2024

Is Generative AI going to be transformative or incremental for your startup? Are you re-vampimg your entire product roadmap, or sprinkling AI in along the way? A panel of AI-driven organizations took the stage at SaaStr Annual to talk about the trends and opportunities of GenAI and how it’s shaped their companies.

Generative AI 275

Generative AI AI Cloud Startup 275

Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model? the company has no plan/interest to staff a team to manage AI infrastructure or develop deep machine learning experience / expertise in-house. The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer.

Artificial Intelligence 227

Artificial Intelligence AI Machine Learning Scale 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI. Now, it’s time to knock over all of these beliefs with generative AI. Debunking Traditional SaaS Beliefs Generative AI inverts all of the assumptions above, and we’re at the start of it, not the end.

Generative AI 296

Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 296

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. The video is here.

Generative AI 228

Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 228

Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, compliance industry trends and requirements adapt accordingly. Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. Artificial Intelligence advancements also come with new insider threats.

compliance 52

compliance Artificial Intelligence Trends Cybersecurity 52

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. Sign up for free.

Generative AI 242

Generative AI AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 242

TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? What about an AI support assistant? For customer service?

Innovation 780

Innovation Development CTO Hire Technical Review 780

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Many net-new purchases are for data security, compliance, risk management, and AI-powered tools. Compliance : The cost of GDPR compliance has totaled around $9B globally since its introduction. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. weakest link.

VP of Engineering 296

VP of Engineering Trends Cybersecurity Sales Hiring 296

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2024

AI is the X-factor for your business, and it can lead to exponential growth. Dawn Herndon, Vice President of EMEA Build & ISV Partnerships at IBM, shares the areas where AI can accelerate your business and the different factors you need to consider as you build products and solutions to sell. Open-source.

AI 179

AI Artificial Intelligence Government Scale 179

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Wiser – Live Sales Co-pilot / Coaching Startup Shrav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Secureframe, a provider of security and compliance software to help streamline SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, and backed by Accomplice Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund) The post My App Stack: Shrav Mehta, Founder and CEO of Secureframe (..)

AWS 301

AWS compliance AI Startup 301

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2024

At SaaStr’s inaugural AI Day, the Senior Director of Product Management at Panoptica by Cisco, its incubation team, Alex Jauch, talks about how GenAI is powering app security, how Cisco is using it, and how you can use GenAI to protect other businesses. Of course, they have an AI-based chatbot in the product. Did You Say Hype Cycle?

AI 286

AI Cloud compliance Innovation 286

Tom Tunguz

JULY 27, 2023

AI will automate 25-50% of white collar work including data analysis. On the contrary, while AI can automate some work, it will also demand much more from data teams. The data team will bear the responsibility of providing the data, validating it, & ensuring that it meets both internal & external standards/compliance.

AI 186

AI Data Data Analysis compliance 186

Payrix

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Takeaway #2: Inflation and surcharging compliance Ella highlighted the rising importance of surcharging as a response to inflation and escalating operational costs. Ensuring compliance in surcharging practices is critical, as violations can lead to substantial fines.

Payments 130

Payments Embedded Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 130

Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. AI is addressing these inefficiencies, transforming billing into a data-driven, automated, and predictive process.

Payments 59

Payments AI Search Payment Services AI 59

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. So the time to implementation and compliance is much quicker now than it used to be.

AI 159

AI SMB Sales Hiring compliance 159

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Couple takeaways for me: 2024 is shaping up to be the “prototype to production” year for AI. There were also quite a few questions around cost and compliance. And on the latter - there will be more guardrails and structure in place to appease some of the compliance questions. Time will tell if they can execute!

AWS 299

AWS Cloud AI Search Cost optimization & reporting 299

SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner that helps global organizations take a strategic approach to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. Mutiny is a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top of funnel demand into revenue, without engineers.

Cybersecurity 49

Cybersecurity Data compliance AI 49

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get your reps into live conversations quickly. Schellman is a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. appeared first on SaaStr.

compliance 276

compliance Forecasting AI Onboarding 276

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant, Collaboration and Intelligence platform for Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success teams. At the 8th ever SaaStr Annual, ~200 of the best and hottest companies on earth will go BIG as partners/sponsors.

Payments 276

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 276

SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

CTO 286

CTO Scale Travel AI 286

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). When it comes to AI there is now another BIG culprit in misused ARR which I’m calling ERR (we use this term internally). A huge portion of AI revenue today is truly experimental! If retention deteriorates, the terminal value may very well be 0.

AI 190

AI Cloud Revenue Technical Advisors 190

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2022

6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Think of us as your automated security and compliance expert. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

Forecasting 275

Forecasting compliance Finance Cloud 275

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50+ countries. Trustero aims to be the trust clearing house for SaaS businesses, replacing the need for a traditional approach to compliance through 3rd party consultancy.

Scale 244

Scale Banking compliance Forecasting 244

BetterCloud

MARCH 7, 2025

This is called shadow IT and its a constant battle, but theres a new, more sophisticated invader on the scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is no longer a futuristic fantasy. While the potential benefits are undeniable, this rapid, often uncontrolled adoption of AI introduces significant challenges for IT.

AI 52

AI Software Review Technical Review Software 52

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Theyre easy to integrate and set up, with the host taking care of data security measures, including PCI compliance and fraud protection. On top of PCI compliance, you might have to pay extra for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certification. Just like self-hosted gateways, merchants using API-based solutions are responsible for security.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

No AI solution will understand your brand tone better than your marketing team, and you’d be taking a huge leap of faith if you let bots write your code. For more information about how SaaS companies can streamline their sales tax compliance, download our free Sales Tax for SaaS Companies Checklist. .

Business 330

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 330

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2024

Plus, these teams face longer sales cycles and need things like SOC 2 compliance. Enterprise customers need single sign-on, data encryption, AI-driven security shields, and compliance with industry standards. #3: PLG companies are 10-15% less profitable than their sales-led counterparts.

Scale 286

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Enterprise 286

IT World

JUNE 30, 2023

A proposed EU law that would create the West’s first regulatory scheme for AI is the target of criticism from the business and technology sectors, which published an open letter today arguing for fewer restrictions and a less “bureaucratic” approach. In total, 163 people signed the letter. To read this article in full, please click here

AI 115

AI Generative AI Business compliance 115