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Markets2026-07-18 · source-backed
Topped Product Hunt July 16 with 264 points, and again on the 17th. Going after the AE seat itself, not the SDR top-of-funnel earlier AI sales tools targeted. This lands three days after reporting that fully-autonomous AI SDRs had largely reverted to hybrid. Same week the SDR pitch cooled, a new entrant moved one rung up the org chart to the harder job. Worth watching whether it repeats the retrenchment.
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SaaStr's post-mortem has BigCommerce, now Commerce.com, trading at roughly $200M, under 1x ARR (SaaStr). The revenue gap with Shopify went from 19x in 2020 to about 44x on this year's guidance, with BigCommerce growth running 36%, 44%, 27%, 11%, 7%, 3% and now negative while S...
OpenAI Devs announced on August 26 that WebMCP works in the ChatGPT desktop app's built-in browser and in ChatGPT Sites, so ChatGPT and Codex can call a site's declared tools directly. WebMCP is an experimental web standard adding navigator.modelContext to the browser, letting...
SaaStr published an expanded AI Agent API Report Card grading 144 B2B APIs across six dimensions: API design, events/streaming, auth/security, rate limits, SDKs/docs, and agent readiness. The average score was 71 out of 100. A C+. The leaderboard tells a story. Stripe scored 9...
One in eight merged PRs at Shopify is now written by an AI agent. Not a demo. Production code, human-reviewed, shipped to customers. Simon Willison highlighted Shopify's internal River agent with numbers that are hard to ignore: 5,938 employees used it in the last 30 days acro...
If you're building a multi-agent system right now, stop and read this paper. Researchers ran 22,500 deterministic trajectories across three state-of-the-art models (GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Ultra) and three major benchmarks (GAIA, SWE-bench, Multi-Challenge). The fin...
Shopify built an internal coding agent called River. It generates over half the company's code. And it won't talk to you in private. That last part is the interesting bit. River operates exclusively in public Slack channels, refusing DMs entirely. Every prompt, every response,...
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