SaaStr AI 2026: Agents Now Carry Quota and Write to Systems of Record — PayPal's SDR Agent Lifted Conversion 50% in 14 Weeks
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The main stage at SaaStr AI Annual 2026 in San Mateo ran end-to-end on production agents from Salesforce, Snowflake, Databricks, Harvey, and Lovable — agents carrying quota, writing to CRM constantly, and reshaping how companies are built. PayPal's SDR agent lifted meeting conversion 50% in 14 weeks and Salesforce's Agentforce closed thousands of deals, marking the shift from task assistant to quota-carrying GTM operator. Builder takeaway: the system of record and its data estate is becoming the moat, not the app UI layered on top.