Sales Tech

Aurasell CEO: His last stack was 22 tools, $3M, 11 ops people

Jason Eubanks put his old GTM stack on a slide: 22 products, $3 million in annual fees, 11 ops team members to keep it running. Reps spent 24-30% of their time actually selling. The rest was context switching across 10-12 tools per day. Now he is building Aurasell to replace the whole thing with one AI-native CRM.

Jun 8, 2026 · 3 min
Sales Tech

SaaStr built an AI VP of Marketing, runs 20+ agents with 3 humans

Jason Lemkin's SaaStr runs 20+ AI agents with 3 full-time humans, same revenue as when they had 20 employees in 2020. Their custom-built AI VP of Marketing, called 10K, plans campaigns, manages pipeline, and assigns daily tasks. They spent over $500k on AI infrastructure because every AI marketing tool they demoed only wrote content, not strategy.

Jun 7, 2026 · 2 min
Sales Tech

SaaStr runs eight-figure revenue with sub-10 headcount, 21 AI agents

The B2B media company rebuilt its entire go-to-market stack around AI agents in six months. Two humans and a dog now manage sponsor sales, event production, and customer success through specialized agents that book meetings, revive dead leads, and push daily marketing ideas. Owner.com and Klaviyo shared similar AI agent buildouts at SaaStr AI Annual 2026.

Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min
Sales Tech

Instagram AI chatbot let hackers hijack accounts, reset passwords

Meta fixed a security flaw that let attackers manipulate its AI support bot to take over Instagram accounts, including high-profile business profiles. The exploit worked by social-engineering the chatbot into sending password-reset codes to attacker-controlled emails. Meta did not disclose how many accounts were affected.

Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min
Sales Tech

SaaStr runs 4 AI SDR agents, 40k outbound messages, $1M closed inbound

Jason Lemkin's SaaStr is running four specialized AI SDR platforms instead of one all-in-one tool. Three Artisan instances for outbound (40,000+ messages sent), Qualified for inbound ($1M+ closed), Agentforce for reactivation (200,000 messages, 72% open rates), and Monaco for net new logos. The take: specialized tools beat generalist platforms once you hit scale, but most companies should start with one.

Jun 2, 2026 · 3 min
Sales Tech

SaaStr AI agent books 614 meetings from 442K chats, $85K ASP

SaaStr's Qualified-powered agent handled 2.2M sessions and booked 614 qualified meetings at its 10,000-person conference. Founder Jason Lemkin says B leads, not A leads, are where AI ROI actually shows up. Here is what the conversion data looks like and why B2B teams should care.

May 30, 2026 · 3 min
Sales Tech

CommBank pilots AI loan assistant, no human contact required

CBA is testing an AI agent that handles business loan applications end-to-end, including income verification. The tool lives in the mobile app and uses customer data to answer questions and progress applications without human involvement. This is not a chatbot upgrade, it is agentic AI that takes action.

May 26, 2026 · 2 min
Sales Tech

AI agents running sales ops for $257 monthly, total

SaaStr is running two AI agents that handle marketing ops, sponsor management, and personalized outreach for $257 combined monthly cost. The work previously required multiple full-time staff. LLM costs dropped 95% in 12 months, making agent economics viable for lean GTM teams.

May 25, 2026 · 3 min
Sales Tech

ANZ cuts 4,500 roles, replaces bankers with Salesforce agents

ANZ is removing 3,500 employees and 1,000 contractors by September 2026 while rolling out Agentforce CRM to business bankers. The bank is automating account summaries, lead prioritization, and task routing, aiming to save each banker one working month per year. This is not a hiring story. This is a replacement story.

May 23, 2026 · 3 min