Fetching from the wire…
Markets2026-08-05 · source-backed
Q2 2026 revenue of $1.935B, up 93% YoY, U.S. commercial up 149% to $764M (SaaStr). Customer count grew 6% sequentially while revenue grew 28%, meaning nearly all growth is expansion inside 1,049 existing accounts averaging ~$7.4M each, with 73 deals over $10M and $13.1B in remaining deal value. AIP sells delivered outcomes via boot-camp engagements, not seats. One Silicon Valley company converted to a $10M ACV contract after a bake-off against frontier labs. If your pricing model is per-seat and you're watching seats compress, this is the counter-model.
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The loudest enterprise-agent number of the quarter falls apart when you divide it. SaaStr's breakdown of Salesforce Q2 FY27 (reported August 26, stock up 23%) puts cRPO at $33.5B growing 14% against 11% revenue growth. Agentforce ARR passed $1.5B at +240% on 3.2 billion agenti...
Jason Lemkin's July 29 piece argues legacy B2B SaaS is dying of neglect rather than AI, using Adobe Marketo as the case: 1.5 days of downtime, a missed send to 450,000+ subscribers, a broken unsubscribe link left live for over two weeks, all on a $60,000 ACV contract that came...
SaaStr published production data from running 20+ AI agents that should make every SaaS founder rethink their product category. Their Salesforce bill went up 80%, from roughly $16K to $22K per year, despite cutting human seats by 60-70%. Meanwhile, Notion usage dropped to lite...
Three companies in three completely different SaaS categories arrived at the same pricing architecture in Q1 2026, and I don't think it's a coincidence. ServiceNow introduced Pro Plus premium tiers at 25-45% above standard pricing for autonomous AI capabilities. Their Now Assi...
SaaStr's July 21 post argues against the "give agents a Postgres database and let them rip" position with four failure modes: 20+ agents each reinvent business rules without shared logic, downstream billing/BI/marketing need a canonical record, humans still need pipelines and...
The Information disclosed the numbers and SaaStr broke them down July 23: $6.8B revenue up 33%, $2B in Q1 2026 alone, $1.9T total payment volume up 34%, 0.36% net take rate, free cash flow $3.2B (up 52%) for a 47% FCF margin. A "Rule of 80" company at $159B, or 23x revenue. Th...
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