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.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

AI tools can help flag bottlenecks or anomalies here. AI can reduce forecasting errors by 20-50%, so if youre still relying on guesswork, its time to upgrade your approach. AI can help refine your ICP and prioritize high-propensity leads. AI can help predict churn and identify expansion opportunities. If so, why?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scytale

APRIL 24, 2025

This partnership is driven by one goal: to help organizations tackle AI compliance and governance with ease. “AI is changing the way businesses operate, and as organizations adopt these technologies, ensuring strong compliance and governance is more critical than ever. . ” Guy Horovitz, COO, Scytale.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scytale

APRIL 30, 2025

When you think about AI, whats the first thing that comes to mind? With 72% of businesses globally already integrating AI in some form, its no wonder so many are scrambling to get a handle on the risks that come with it. In the spotlight today are two key players in AI risk management – NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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 (..)

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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. .

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