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An orchestrator agent called Avi over lead agents that map products to tax codes, validate exemption certificates and generate tax matrices, drawing on 22+ years of compliance data and 54B AvaTax API calls a year. GA after its October CRUSH Europe event, no extra charge for existing customers (PR Newswire). Free is a defensive price. It keeps tax automation inside the incumbent before agent-first bookkeeping startups absorb the workflow.
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Diginomica's writeup of the Unbound keynote has CEO Yamini Rangan naming two pieces of the rebuilt Smart CRM: Aviator, an agentic harness that orchestrates and manages action, and Growth Context built into the CRM. Her framing is that a CRM that only records is dead weight and...
Per the Salesforce Newsroom, the expansion adds a developer toolkit of 40+ prebuilt skills and a Commerce Apps Framework where apps are discoverable and installable from Business Manager. Launch partners include Stripe, Adyen, Avalara, Mirakl, and Forter, with ChatGPT GA and G...
HubSpot beat Q2 revenue at $912M, up 20%. Beat EPS at $3.26 against $3.02 expected. Its Data Agent is at 16,000 customers, up 80% quarter over quarter. Its Customer Agent resolves 72% of tickets without escalation. The stock had its largest one-day drop in 12 years on the NYSE...
SaaStr frames the AI-CRM market as splitting on architecture, not features. Lightfield and peers (Attio, Monaco, Reevo) pursue full rip-and-replace of Salesforce/HubSpot with self-updating, memory-native systems, while Aurasell layers an AI-native go-to-market OS on top of exi...
Jon Miller's Phave came out of two years in stealth on September 23, GA since August, backed by FirstMark, Ridge and Costanoa, with SambaNova, SPS Commerce and mabl as customers. Marketers state an objective; an engine called Maestro computes a per-person "Playlist" of touches...
When one team breaks from an incumbent's design, it's a bet. When five independently funded teams converge on the identical architecture inside a few months, that's a leading indicator. Lightfield, Attio, Reevo, Monaco, and Aurasell were all built on one premise: AI agents pop...
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