Today's SaaS Pulse
Shutterstock launches a human‑led, AI‑powered creative platform
Shutterstock introduced a new platform that combines its extensive asset library with generative image and video tools, AI‑driven editing, conversational search, and prompt‑enhancement features, enabling creators to move from concept to finished product within a single application.
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By the numbers: GIA acquires 30% stake in De Beers' Tracr blockchain platform
Research Finds that 77% of Data Engineers Have Heavier Workloads Despite AI Tools: Here's Why and What to Do About...
A survey of 400 senior tech executives by MIT Technology Review Insights and Snowflake finds 77% of data engineers report heavier workloads despite widespread AI tool adoption, with 83% of organizations using AI data tools and engineers' time on AI projects rising from 19% to 37% (projected to reach 61% in two years). The study pins the strain on integration complexity, tool sprawl and fragmented stacks—issues that boost output quality/quantity but create operational overhead and a productivity paradox. With 54% planning agentic AI within 12 months, the report warns enterprises risk data corruption and governance failures unless they consolidate platforms, enforce lineage and permissions, and elevate data engineering in the C‑suite (noting a gap between CDOs/CAIOs and CIOs). The upshot: scaling AI successfully hinges on reducing integration complexity and investing in governance and unified infrastructure.
Crossing $10M ARR Triggers Churn‑Driven Growth Crisis
Having worked with a number of SaaS CEOs at the $10M+ ARR level, I've started to notice some patterns about some weird things that start happening at this level: Bucket A: everything is great. they don't need my help. keep cranking. Bucket...
Three-Step AI-Driven Workflow Revolutionizes Product Development
Product development has completely changed for us. Three steps. One seamless flow. Step 1: Lovable. Sketch. Prototype. MVP. Ideas take shape fast - design to build, all in one place. Step 2: GitHub + Copilot. Delegate repeat work. Track issues, review PRs. No manual coding - just smart...
UK ChatGPT Users Will Finally Have a Say in Where Their Data Is Stored
The UK government has struck an agreement with OpenAI to offer UK-based data residency for ChatGPT from October 24, 2025, allowing British customers and developers to store content—files, images, conversations, code interpreter outputs, ChatGPT Memory and custom GPTs—on UK servers...
Brand Marketing Wins B2B Deals Before Sales Calls
Something people don't realize about B2B buying: Deals are being won and lost before sales calls even happen. Dentsu's massive B2B buyer study - over 14,000 interviews - reveals a shift that's rewriting the rules of how enterprise software gets...
Free Web Analytics Simplifies Understanding Your Site
It’s been almost two months since I became CEO of Crazy Egg. Last month we shipped Free Website Surveys. Tonight we’re shipping Free Web Analytics. And I can’t wait to show you what we’re shipping next month. We’re moving fast, but with purpose. Everything...
New Woo
WooCommerce 10.3 was released ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, introducing checkout improvements, built-in tracking for cost of goods sold, and a beta MCP server that lets AI assistants (like Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP-compatible clients) interact directly with...
Adobe Threatens House Lien over Subscription Access
What's next, Adobe? Asking for a lien on my house to "protect against losing access to my Adobe plan"? https://t.co/ciqEYa3qqP
Avoid Premature Serviceification: Don’t Distribute Your Computing
"The problem with prematurely turning your application into a range of services is chiefly that it violates the #1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!" https://t.co/mYbAKIRvCf
Product-Market Fit Is No Longer Static
Venture investor Tomasz Tunguz argues product-market fit (PMF) is no longer a one-time milestone but a continuous condition because rapid advances in AI are constantly reshaping customer needs and technical possibilities. He points to firms that lost PMF between 2021–2024,...
Monoliths Outshine Microservices for Most Web Apps
The majestic monolith remains undefeated for the vast majority of web apps. Replacing method calls with network calls makes everything harder, slower, and more brittle. It should be the absolute last resort. https://t.co/ZuyGrwrM0Q
Free, Unified Dashboard: Introducing Crazy Egg Web Analytics
We just launched Crazy Egg Web Analytics. Clarity in one dashboard. Free forever. https://t.co/SKfnnQnTtF
What’s Updog? Datadog’s New Tool Tells You Which Apps Are Down
Datadog launched Updog, a free web dashboard that shows real‑time status of dozens of major SaaS and cloud providers (AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Slack, etc.) and is positioned as a lightweight complement to its paid monitoring tools. Datadog says Updog uses...
Revenue Automation and AI Transform CFO Tech Stacks
Just dropped a new episode of The SaaS CFO Podcast with Ali Hussain, CEO & Co-founder of Tabs! 🚀 We dug into the rise of Revenue Automation, AI in finance ops, and what’s next for CFO tech stacks. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS...
Identifying Future Buyers of SaaS Companies
New!! "Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies?" https://t.co/m1tppdUsFM
UK Designates Apple and Google as Having ‘Strategic Market Status,’ Opening Door for More Regulation
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has designated Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” for their mobile platforms — covering operating systems, app stores, browsers and browser engines — enabling targeted regulatory interventions to boost competition. After investigations...
The Moment Has Arrived: Take Action Now
It’s time. It’s time to get ahead of the pack in AI + B2B. Not next quarter. Not next year. Right now. Because the companies that figured out AI in GTM over the past 12 months are now scaling those...
AI Slashes Advisory Costs, Democratizes Financial Advice
Congrats to @Saturn__OS on their $15M Series A! Saturn uses AI to automate compliance and admin work in UK financial advisory—cutting tasks that once took paraplanners 4 hours down to 20 minutes of review. This drops the cost to serve from £2,000...
5 Interesting Learnings From Klaviyo at $1.2 Billion in ARR
Klaviyo is emerging as an undervalued SaaS leader after hitting $1.2B in ARR, trading at just 6.1x ARR despite 32% YoY growth and top‑7% Rule of 40 performance. The firm is driving durable expansion via multi‑product adoption (54% of ARR),...
AI Will Collapse Product Boundaries Into Unified Customer Agent
AI is making everything look the same. Everything is trending towards a big text box asking "What do you want to do?" It won't be obvious how to respect our made-up product boundaries for users. For example why is "Show...
AI Video Creator: Profitable, Ready for Acquisition
AI + video = huge market. This tool on @acquiredotcom helps creators generate and schedule short-form videos automatically. You can spin up YouTube Shorts, TikToks, and AI-style clips (even Pixar-like animations). Zero editing skills needed. > $107K TTM revenue > $79K profit > 100+ customers >...
Your Pricing Is (Probably) Broken
SaaS and AI startups largely have broken pricing: founders default to flat fees, feature bundles, seat-based and usage models that misprice customers and leave revenue on the table. Poyar highlights concrete fixes — e.g., add premium editions (50–100% higher price...
Key SaaS Metrics to Secure Your Series A
Essential SaaS Metrics for Your Series A Raise My latest post is live. Prep now. Not later. https://lnkd.in/g9AvcStd
Smooth AI Browser Agent Offers Real-Time Serverless Automation
Smooth by @circlemind_ai is a real-time AI browser agent - and the fastest and most reliable one yet. It can autonomously perform any task on the web using mouse and keyboard. Infinitely scalable, production-ready, and secure, it's now available as a...
ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into Global App‑Free Marketplace
Most people think OpenAI is chasing WeChat’s playbook. In reality, it’s building something even bigger. Here’s what’s really happening👇 In China, chat became the internet. You can book flights, pay bills, or order dinner inside one message window. That started...
CFOs Share AI Strategies for Risk Reduction and Efficiency
We're hosting an event next week for CFOs and Finance Teams in San Francisco. Hear from CFOs and leaders who have adopted AI to reduce risks, drive better decisions, and deliver efficiencies across FP&A, including: Amol Hardikar, CFO @Replit @john__glasgow, CEO & Co-founder...
Feature Bloat Dilutes Focus, Turns Users Into Habit
Somewhere along the way, growth stopped meaning progress and started meaning more. More features. More dashboards. More categories to chase. Every successful product faces this moment. You build something people love. It works. Then comes the temptation to widen the story....
Accrual Accounting Essential for SaaS Founder Valuations
Many of the private SaaS founders we work with don't realize that recognizing revenue in accordance with principles of GAAP and accrual accounting is not just a practice for publicly traded companies. We've found that SaaS founders, for convenience and...
Stop Treating AI as Magic—Build the Right Architecture
The “AI black box” is killing momentum in GTM teams. And it’s no longer just a technical challenge, it’s an architecture problem. That’s the idea I explored in Chapter 2 of Ignite Your GTM with AI, a project brought to...
Automate Order Entry: Save Hours, Recover $10K Monthly
Your sales reps weren’t hired to retype PDFs into your ERP. Yet that’s what most manufacturers and distributors still make them do, resulting in 20+ hours every week wasted on manual order entry. https://t.co/VPgs7HSbig automates it. It reads POs, RFQs, and...
AI's Next Phase: Industry‑Specific Agents Boost Real‑World Work
We’re going to enter a new phase of AI where the average consumer may not perceive a huge difference in any one model upgrade, but specific industries will feel significant improvements occur. The next phase of AI be about making models...
Self‑Driving SaaS: The Future SaaS Junkies Anticipated
“Self-driving SaaS” @karrisaarinen has put into words what some of us SaaS junkies have been ranting to each other about privately.
SaaS Growth Depends More on Reducing Churn than Acquisition
No matter how great you are at acquiring new customers… If you keep losing customers due to churn… You’ll never reach significant amounts of revenue. SaaS businesses only work if you have churn under control. Here’s the big question…
AI Agent Ruth Cuts SaaS Costs with Data‑Driven Negotiations
Ruth from @VendrHQ is the AI negotiation agent for SaaS. Trained on data billions in spend data, she helps you benchmark prices, plan negotiations, and save money. https://t.co/7Y962NhyWR https://t.co/7mYfR4sVsy
Mulligan Launches AI Platform Automating Commercial Insurance Brokerage
Mulligan (https://t.co/KlkcVLe0fK) is an end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokerages. It can quote, generate submissions and proposals, compare policies, and more. https://t.co/JgQmbPdU3T Congrats on the launch, @araghuvanshi2! https://t.co/onyFYz8ylh
Tempo Secures $5M to Revolutionize React Design Tools
Tempo (@Tempo_Labs) has raised $5M to build the best design tool for design engineers. Unlike other vibecoding tools, Tempo integrates with any React codebase and allows designers to control every pixel by hand. Congrats to the team! https://t.co/GmPMka8o0H https://t.co/27HsMZBzkd
Ease Over Features: Treat Focus as a Feature
Users don’t remember how much you can do. They remember how easy it was to do the thing they came for. Focus is a feature. Treat it like one.
Articulate Cuts Construction Delays, Saves Millions
Articulate (@Use_Articulate) is the construction and solar painkiller. It catches design issues early, auto-detects clashes, and generates RFls. It also streamlines crew communication and procurement to save millions of dollars and prevent costly delays. https://t.co/yrwr7oqADo Congrats on the launch, @milinds24 & @BlakePasse!
Centralized Cloud Stifles Innovation, Yet Still Benefits Us
I discussed the problems with centralizing the internet (on us-east-1 in particular!) with @lexfridman just this summer: How we've strayed from DARPA's original design, forgotten how enjoyable and profitable owning servers can be, yet still can be thankful for the...
Customer Interviews Turned $40k Stagnation Into $100k+
"We don't have time for customer interviews. We need to ship features." This founder was stuck at $40k MRR for 8 months building the wrong things. But after just 12 interviews in 3 weeks they got back on track to $100k+...
Stop SaaS Churn: Proven Strategies CEOs Must Adopt
Top Strategies to Gain Control Over Customer Churn I've been booking calls with SaaS CEOs who are struggling with churn. The patterns are clear: Traditional SaaS platforms are under attack and churn is rising.
Smart Incentives Outperform Discounts; Hyper-Personalization Still Wins
This week’s SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap - Oct 21, 2025 We covered five big themes on this week’s call...from planning Q4 incentives to AI-powered coding workflows. Here’s what went down 👇 🎁 Holiday Sales Process Planning: Founders shared how...
AI Agents Turn CRM Into Passive Data Warehouse
AI is a pretty big threat to CRM. Not the need for CRM, but to its value proposition. I didn’t totally get it until we deployed 11+ AI Agents. But what they do is push your CRM to the background....
Turning Internal Tools Into SaaS Often Guarantees Failure
Every year, I talk to 10-15 companies attempting the same thing: A non-SaaS company (usually an agency or consulting firm) wants to spin off their internal software into its own SaaS business. And honestly? Most of them are setting themselves...
Your Consulting Brand Won’t Sell Your SaaS
every year i talk to 10-15 consulting firms trying to spin off a SaaS and the pattern is always the same: they think their brand equity will translate to the new product it won't you're selling to strangers now, and your product needs...
Seeking Feedback on New AppSumo Homepage Design
Working on a NEW AppSumo homepage. LOVE your thoughts 🌮 https://t.co/akU6SmARYL
Self‑hosting Cut Costs by $2M+ Yearly
Since 2017, we ended up spending almost $22m on cloud. Peaking at $3.7m in 2021. Now that we're all out, we'll spend a little over a million on everything we own ourselves. Same team size. Better performance. Saving $2m+ per...
Create Shopify Stores Using AI in Lovable
You can now build Shopify stores with AI in Lovable
RiveterHQ Unveils All‑In‑One Search API
.@RiveterHQ is replacing the entire scraper infrastructure stack with a single API. Their all-in-one search agent replaces SERP, scrapers, proxy managers, and more. And it knows which tools to use to find exactly the data you’re looking for. https://t.co/WN3adWx2l5 Congrats on the launch,...
AI Launches the Agentic Enterprise Era
Thrilling day keynoting @Gartner Symposium in Orlando with 10,000 customers! 🌟 The Agentic Enterprise era has begun — where AI empowers people and redefines how organizations think, work, and trust. Still riding the Dreamforce high. 🤖💙 https://t.co/x5TfceOpHf https://t.co/Io8dSuMNw8