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Markets2026-07-26 · source-backed
Jason Lemkin describes "10K," an agent grown out of SaaStr's marketing agent now running sales ops, AR, collections, sales comp, and part of FP&A end to end across PandaDoc, Salesforce, bill.com, and QuickBooks: 60 seconds from contract signature to Salesforce update, one incorrect invoice in months of production, collections escalating to a human at 7 days past due (SaaStr). Four real deals to train, three reviewed manually step by step under a standing "tell me what you plan to do before you do it" prompt. Architecturally this is single-agent-over-existing-SaaS, not SaaS replacement. The four vendors stay. The human roles between them don't.
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