🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing for CFO platform
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing (OBP) model for its Office of the CFO SaaS, removing upfront implementation and subscription fees and instead taking a share of verified financial gains once the solution is live. The approach follows a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS to orchestrate AI‑driven customer journeys
- •SaaS Capital closes $100M fifth fund for B2B SaaS and AI applications
News•Oct 25, 2025
ICE Is Building a Social Media Panopticon
Federal immigration enforcement is expanding online surveillance: ICE has paid $5.7 million to contract Zignal Labs’ AI‑driven social media monitoring platform, which the company says can analyze more than 8 billion posts a day in 100+ languages and surface geolocated images and curated detection feeds. Internal documents and reporting show ICE plans to staff contractors to monitor Facebook, TikTok, X, Instagram and other platforms in near real time, and could use the data to locate and flag individuals for arrests or deportation. Civil‑liberties groups warn the scale and automation of the program will magnify government scrutiny of speech, chill dissent and extend immigration enforcement reach across millions of online users.
By The Verge
Social•Oct 25, 2025
SQL-Powered OCR with LLMs: Beware Auto‑corrections
We never marketed this widely, yet it's growing very fast. Just using our data warehouse and call SELECT ai_parse_document(content) and get OCR working on your document corpus (PDF, docx, etc). This is harder than one might imagine with LLMs. For...
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Knowing Everything Makes You the Best CEO
For a long while, you probably aren't a great CEO But you know the customers The software The feature gaps The roadmap The competition How to sell it How to market it How to build it So maybe as flawed as you are You are still the best CEO
By Jason Lemkin
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Scale Your Ad Budget Without Breaking Your Funnel
The post explains how SaaS companies can scale ad spend profitably by treating budget increases as a systematic, data‑driven process rather than a quick boost. It outlines a step‑by‑step framework—starting with a test month, weekly tracking, incremental 10‑20% budget lifts,...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Only One of 16 Core AI Agents Is Legacy
New!! “Everything’s In Play in the Age of AI: Why Only 1 of Our 16 Core AI Agents Comes From a Legacy Vendor” https://t.co/ZWUROQEB9H
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Current Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
By Jamin Ball
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Use Paid Search and LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads to Drive B2B SaaS Growth
The post explains how combining paid search with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads creates a predictable growth engine for B2B SaaS companies, capturing high‑intent demand while building brand authority. It offers a step‑by‑step framework—choosing platforms, structuring keyword tiers, using phrase match,...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Use Matched and Lookalike Ads to Scale Your B2B SaaS Growth
The post explains how SaaS companies can break growth plateaus by using matched‑audience and lookalike advertising to achieve market omnipresence. It walks readers through step‑by‑step setup for Meta, LinkedIn, Google, and AdRoll, offers practical tips to boost match rates, and...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Fizzy Beta Invites Launch Next Week After Rebrand
For all those waiting on a Fizzy beta invite, a couple things: 1. The initial batch should begin next week. We had our all-company retreat this week and decided to hold off on invites until everyone was back at work. 2. We’re...
By Jason Fried
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Create B2B Ads That Convert: Campaign Structure and Retargeting for SaaS Growth
The post outlines a systematic approach to building high‑converting B2B SaaS ad campaigns, emphasizing proper tracking, attribution, and a layered multi‑channel structure that combines outbound email, LinkedIn, Meta, Google, and retargeting. It details practical steps—from installing pixels and using attribution...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Build a B2B Ad Strategy That Actually Scales
The post argues that scaling B2B SaaS revenue beyond $5‑10M ARR requires a disciplined paid‑ads system built on solid unit economics, rigorous testing, and continuous optimization rather than luck or creative flair. It walks readers through a step‑by‑step framework—defining CAC,...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Empowers B2B Buyers, Redefining Marketing's Funnel Role
AI is changing the balance of power in B2B. "Get on the phone with us and we'll tell you pricing." No more. "Get on the phone and we'll show you our product." No more. Today's buyers now self-educate, run deep...
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Productivity Gains Require Upfront Workflow Redesign
There is a wide gulf between those getting major productivity gains from AI agents and those that don’t. The difference comes down to being willing to do the work up front to make the agent effective by giving them the...
By Aaron Levie
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Use LinkedIn for Outbound Prospecting: Building Relationships at Scale
The post explains how to integrate LinkedIn into a B2B outbound prospecting and ABM strategy, emphasizing that LinkedIn’s high‑intent audience and accurate data make it a crucial human touchpoint alongside email and ads. It outlines a step‑by‑step system—from syncing ABM...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Write AI-Personalized Outbound Email Sequences That Actually Get Replies
The post explains how AI-driven personalization can transform cold outbound email sequences into high‑response conversations, outlining a five‑email, fifteen‑day framework that balances value offers and reply‑focused messages. It emphasizes building a clean ABM list, warming domains, and using AI tools...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 24, 2025
How to Use AI-Powered Outbound Email to Scale B2B Growth
The post explains how to build a scalable, AI‑powered outbound email system for B2B SaaS growth, emphasizing the need for a well‑defined ABM list, AI‑driven personalization, and a thoughtful cadence. It outlines the prerequisites (high enough ACV), the four outbound...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI‑Powered Agentforce Transforms IT Support via Slack
Today, with the launch of Agentforce IT Service, Salesforce is helping customers transform IT support with an agent-first, conversational IT suite that delivers instant, AI-powered resolutions directly in Slack. For decades, IT teams and employees have faced frustrating productivity drains from...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Software Valuation Multiples Skyrocket with Growth Rate
This week on Clouded Judgement: Long Live Benchmarks! - Median software multiple: 5.2x - High Growth software median: 26.8x - Mid Growth software median: 7.7x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.0% https://lnkd.in/gmxVt3u6
By Jamin Ball
News•Oct 24, 2025
Microsoft Outlook Is Getting an AI Overhaul Under New Leaders
Microsoft has reorganized its Outlook team under Gaurav Sareen to rebuild the email client as an AI‑native assistant integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, shifting from incremental add‑ons to ground‑up redesign. Sareen is pushing faster development cycles—weekly experiments and days‑scale prototyping—and...
By The Verge
Social•Oct 24, 2025
ClickHouse Powers Netflix's 5PB Daily, Scaling for AI Era
ClickHouse is handling 5PB PER DAY, 10M+ events per second for Netflix...Having a database that can scale like this while staying performant will become more important than ever as data explodes in the age of AI
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Exercise.com Joins Daxko in Strategic Acquisition
Congrats to Joel Ohman, Alicia Howson, John Gadbois, Joel VanderPol, and the team at Exercise.com for their recent acquisition by Daxko. Best of luck as you kick off the next stage in your journey. Glad we could help. Check out the press...
By Michael Lyon
News•Oct 24, 2025
Building Your ABM Lead List: How to Target the Right People and Scale Faster
The post explains how Account‑Based Marketing (ABM) hinges on building a precise, verified lead list that targets the ideal customer profile (ICP) and keeps your brand omnipresent across channels. It walks readers through essential steps—defining CAC, CPL, and LTV; crafting...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Get Real-Time Site Mockups Instantly with Alloy
Tired of waiting days (or longer) to get mocks and changes back to your website? That are never really what you want? Just use @alloy_app and tell it whatever changes you want to your site "Change to: SaaStr + Salesforce Agentic...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Why Every Company Needs a Head of Customer
Head of Customer. who has that title? I don't see it and we should have it. who buys our stuff? Customers. who are we building our company for? Customers. instead, we have: Head of Marketing Head of Product Head of Sales Head of Finance Head of everything except Customer that's...
By Anna Furmanov
News•Oct 24, 2025
Hybrid Work Is Here - but Is the Infrastructure?
Hybrid work is now the default, but productivity hinges on resilient, secure and proactive digital infrastructure rather than office presence. Small, recurring IT frictions—failed logins, slow onboarding and reactive help‑desk models—cost large firms hundreds of millions and can be mitigated...
By TechRadar
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Build Elite Teams That Generate $1M+ Per Employee
Hiring should be your last resort as a product-led company. But when you do hire, you need to build an elite team. Elite teams hit $1M+ revenue per employee, improve every month, and execute without constant oversight. Building that kind of team isn't...
By Wes Bush
Blog•Oct 24, 2025
Scaling to $3B: How Clio Built a Vertical SaaS Powerhouse with AI and Innovation with CEO Jack Newton
Clio has grown over 17 years from the first cloud practice‑management tool for lawyers into a $3 billion vertical‑SaaS platform with about $300 million in ARR, 1,500 employees and a $900 million Series F. The company built a multi‑product stack...
By SaaStr
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Automate AI News Posts with Brand‑Aligned Voice
AgentKit + FeedHive MCP 🤯 Being first to the conversation after the breaking news hit gives you a HUGE advantage on social media. - It creates authority - It creates trust in your brand - It drives business But keeping up with the constant stream...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Remote Growth Marketer Wanted: Autonomy, Profit, Beach Meetups
I'm hiring a growth marketer for Wynter. This is a cool opp for marketers because you get 1) a differentiated product to promote, 2) a founder who gets marketing, 3) all the autonomy you can handle. The job: find and scale the...
By Peep Laja
News•Oct 24, 2025
Google Meet Is Finally Adding Waiting Rooms to Give You Something to Do Before Your Meeting Starts
Google Meet is adding waiting rooms for Workspace business and education customers, allowing hosts and co‑hosts to admit or deny participants, send one‑way announcements, and move attendees between waiting and main rooms. The feature will be available to Business Standard/Plus,...
By TechRadar
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Democratizes Skills, Sparking a Specialization Showdown
One big effect of AI agents is that they take previously scarce resources and skills and make them abundant and available to everyone. As a consequence, you can “self-serve” many more of the hard problems that you used to have to...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 24, 2025
1500+ Pitch Decks Uploaded, Get Real-Time VC Feedback
Woo-hoo!! Crossed 1,500 VC Pitch Decks uploaded to SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ Get real time feedback on your deck, benchmarking against 1000s of rounds, and optional intros to the best VCs https://t.co/BIC0fmziG2
By Jason Lemkin
News•Oct 23, 2025
AWS Reveals New Cloud Incident Reporting Tool, with Almost Zero Sense of Irony
AWS has added an interactive incident‑report generation feature to CloudWatch that automatically aggregates telemetry, user inputs, timelines, impact assessments and remediation recommendations to produce post‑incident reports in minutes. The capability, rolling out across major US, Europe and Asia Pacific regions,...
By TechRadar
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Bootstrapped AI SaaS Duo Generates $200K Profit
What’s better than one B2B SaaS? Two B2B SaaS. Two profitable AI SaaS duo for content creation + SEO automation. > $252K TTM revenue > $200K TTM profit > 20% YoY growth > 5K+ customers Bootstrapped + Lean Listed on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/hVgmr7nPE3 https://t.co/gTiI2EJmqJ
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Results, Not Connections, Secure VC Funding Instantly
You don't have to know the 'right people' anymore to get funded If you've got the results -- we'll tell you And introduce you to top VCs. In minutes. SaaStr AI VC. Sign up here -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/4KllqrnwZp
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Velvet Offers Adobe‑Premiere‑Level AI Video Creation in Seconds
Velvet (@Velvet_Videos) is building the Adobe Premiere of AI video, allowing creative teams to generate and edit dozens of cinematic AI videos in seconds. https://t.co/lYvqpwSEXb Congrats on the launch, @lrmantovani_ & @luke_tux! (They made this launch video using Velvet by spending ~$50 in...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Guest Speakers Aren’t Growth Hacks—Build a Demand Strategy
If you’re relying on your guest speaker to drive signups, it’s because you don’t have a demand strategy. Guest speakers aren’t your growth hack. They’re your marketing partners.
By Amanda Natividad
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Stay Close to Customers: Let Market Feedback Guide
Always be close to your customers. Don't build a product nobody wants. Too many startups fail from this. The market has the feedback you need to hear.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Fully Automated Platform Scales ROI-Optimized Influencer Campaigns
.@1stcollab is a fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing platform that helps brands test, optimize, and scale influencer campaigns with just a few minutes of setup. It already powers some of the largest influencer marketing campaigns on social media. https://t.co/STbw7FTvGm
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Becomes Standard, Not Competitive Edge, in SaaS
AI won’t be a differentiator soon — it’ll just be expected. Loved this conversation with Ali Hussain from Tabs on the next era of revenue automation. Episode 215 is live! 👇 ▶️ https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS #AI https://t.co/GZ7BSG8hiS
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Software's Siren Song Masks Its Hard Reality
the siren song of software is real "it'll be so much easier than services!" "it's way more scalable!" "we can finally grow without adding headcount!" then they try it and realize: software is one of the hardest businesses to build the grass isn't always...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Founders Must Master Sales to Scale Successfully
Every founder is in sales. If you can’t sell it, you can’t scale it. Learn sales if you want to win.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Product‑Market Fit Is Ongoing, Not a One‑Time Milestone
There's this notion that product market fit is this binary condition that once you pass the gate, you're done. And that's no longer the case. Product market fit is like United Miles. You continue to fly to maintain 1K. And...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI-Powered Python App Builder Used by 30% Fortune 500
Reflex (@getreflex) is an AI app builder for creating production-grade web apps entirely in Python, powered by its own open-source framework. Just connect your data and enter a prompt. It generates production-ready apps that integrate any data source, API, or Python...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Self‑Improving Support System Boosts CSAT and Revenue
Redapto (https://t.co/oB9ElDblBa) builds self-improving systems for Customer Support teams. It audits 100% of customer conversations, identifies quality gaps, and auto-updates knowledge bases, boosting CSAT and unlocking millions in retained revenue. Congrats on the launch, @CherilShah2 & @AnirudhPupneja!
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI Agents Revolutionize Corporate Knowledge with Multi‑Source Reasoning
AI Agents will completely transform how we interact with corporate knowledge by applying reasoning across multiple data sources. Here's an example of ChatGPT's new knowledge feature to pull information from Box and Gmail to combine it an answer a question....
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI-Powered Pitch Analysis Reveals Funding Odds and VC Connections
Don't go into that next VC pitch blind SaaStr AI VC will tell you -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ 1⃣ How strong your pitch is 2⃣ Odds you get funded 3⃣ Exactly where to improve And ... introduce you to up to 800 VCs! https://t.co/O5f4MNuPgB
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Newton's $3.8M Seed Fuels 10x ROI for Dentists
Congrats to Newton on their $3.8M seed! Newton is a digital front-desk assistant for dental practices—handling calls, texts, insurance verification, and filling cancellations. Dental groups using Newton are already seeing a 7% lift in collections and 10x ROI from higher utilization and...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Stop the Leaky Bucket: Retain Customers, Not Just Acquire
SaaS businesses are incredible. Except when you’ve got a leaky bucket. When do you have a leaky bucket? It’s when you put in all your effort to acquire new users and customers. But they leave you months later.
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI Clones Your Voice to Drive Multimillion B2B Deals
Imagine AI (@imagineagi) builds your B2B content pipeline. They clone you → your expertise, your voice, your insights → into high-fidelity personas. 10M driven across clients. $5M deal landed from a single optimized post. Congrats on the launch, @skygodkingdom & @neo_lky! https://t.co/f0bGPPd9SC
By YCombinator