Agentic SaaS Talks is a video podcast with 40 episodes on AI agents, agentic architectures, and SaaS, hosted by leaders from AWS, Omnistrate, and AGLedger.ai. https://agentic-saas-talks.com en-us Agentic SaaS Talks. All rights reserved. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT guest@agentic-saas-talks.com (Agentic SaaS Talks) https://agentic-saas-talks.com/logo.jpg https://agentic-saas-talks.com Guest host Michael Cooper, founder of AGLedger.ai, returns with Ermin Dzinic and Kamal Gupta to look at what changes when AI agents start taking actions across enterprise systems. Bounded autonomy still rests on familiar principles: identity, least-privilege access, and audit trails that cannot be tampered with. The panel covers why enterprises may favor small, specialized agents, how to record an agent's intent before it acts, how to detect drift, and how structured handoffs between agents keep multi-agent work accountable and cut token costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WQp_eTjuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WQp_eTjuA Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Security & Identity, AI Architecture Guest host Michael Cooper, founder of AGLedger.ai, walks Bill Tarr and Kamal Gupta through the enterprise AI adoption curve: from chat, drafting, search, and coding copilots to workflow automation, supervised action, bounded autonomy, and finally probabilistic decisioning, where AI becomes part of the application logic itself. The turning point is when AI starts writing to systems of record. The panel discusses how enterprises can make that shift while keeping human oversight, control, and accountability over what agents do, and where AGLedger fits in recording it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpCJWKa4pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpCJWKa4pw Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy, AI Architecture Productmind co-founders Steen Brahe and Alessio Nobile take on the last mile of the AI software development lifecycle: getting from a real customer conversation to shipped code without losing the original intent. They demo how a customer call becomes a feature request, then a living specification, then agent-ready tasks running against an existing codebase, with full lineage preserved from feedback to release. The panel also digs into how AI is redrawing product and engineering roles, what governance of human-agent collaboration looks like in the enterprise, and how the founders cleared 20+ bugs with parallel agents while building Productmind with Productmind. For product managers it doubles as a working example of AI for product management: customer feedback turned into specs that coding agents can act on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0lpHdUHmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0lpHdUHmk Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Developer Experience, Founder Stories Paul Paliychuk of Zep AI and Omnistrate co-founder Alok Nikhil lay out ten principles for secure Bring Your Own Cloud deployment: keep the data plane in the customer's account, connect without exposing it, swap static credentials for short-lived identity, and make vendor access revocable by design. They walk through the four levels of BYOC, what changes inside air-gapped environments, and why AI products hit the enterprise security bar far earlier in their life than previous generations of SaaS did. The episode closes with a live demo that turns a Helm chart into a BYOC offering with a self-service customer portal. If you are asking what BYOC means in practice, this is the checklist: the software runs in the customer's cloud account, the vendor operates it, and the customer keeps control of access. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJpv2GjUtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJpv2GjUtg Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud Infrastructure, Security & Identity, AI Architecture Joe McCunney, CEO of Scalar Labs, makes the case that reliable, consistent data across environments is the hidden bottleneck for enterprise AI, especially in large organizations juggling 300+ database types. He explains how ScalarDB acts as a database-agnostic binder that connects multiple data sources and treats them as a single database, and how the company's open source refactoring agent generates architecture docs and migration plans that cut enterprise design time by up to 85%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfhAUiHSsZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfhAUiHSsZE Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data & Databases, AI & Agents, Cloud Infrastructure Omnistrate co-founders Kamal Gupta and Alok Nikhil map the road from open source adoption to revenue: the four ingredients of monetization (project, enterprise features, distribution, go-to-market) and the three business models open to open source AI companies, product-led growth, AWS Marketplace co-sell, and enterprise sales. Alok closes with a live demo that turns vLLM into a managed inference service with a self-service customer portal, showing why distribution needs a control plane and why a Marketplace listing alone gets you discovered but not paid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40aaMtvhF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40aaMtvhF0 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open Source, SaaS Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure Romi Datta, VP and Head of Product Management at DataRobot, explains why enterprise AI is moving past chatbots and copilots toward full agent workforces, and why 95% of agentic AI pilots still fail to deliver measurable ROI. He walks through production use cases from insurance claims processing to industrial safety at Chevron (with NVIDIA edge AI), then breaks down the governance, observability, secure context management, and agent memory an enterprise platform needs to run agents in cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOuMYUrpK_0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOuMYUrpK_0 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, AI Architecture, SaaS Strategy Joshua Drake, President and CTO of Command Prompt with nearly 30 years in the PostgreSQL community, lays out the risks AI creates for open source: extraction without attribution, model collapse, AI-generated security holes, and legal exposure from derivative work. He argues that proof of human contribution, signed origins, and governance with humans in the loop matter more than ever, and shows how commercial open source companies can adopt AI without losing community trust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbB9tQHltk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbB9tQHltk Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open Source, AI & Agents, Founder Stories The panel unpacks how builders are moving "up a layer", from writing every line of implementation to directing AI agents, composing managed services, and shipping faster on product judgment. They introduce the CAMP stack (Cloud, Agents, Managed services, Platforms) and dig into intent engineering, infrastructure control planes, the token economics of running agents 24/7, and why testing remains the hardest part of AI-generated code. Along the way they trace the shift from vibe coding to agentic engineering and ask whether AI will replace software engineers, junior ones in particular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEPL30MXktc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEPL30MXktc Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Developer Experience, Cloud Infrastructure Daniel Chalef, founder and CEO of Zep AI, walks through the brutal technical reality of deploying AI products into Fortune 500 environments, zero-trust architectures, Service Control Policies, no-egress VPCs, and broken image supply chains. He explains why pure SaaS AI products can't meet enterprise security bars and how Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments actually get shipped into locked-down customer infrastructure. For vendors taking private AI into regulated customers, it shows what near air-gapped, no-egress environments demand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcjIM8PMRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcjIM8PMRo Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Founder Stories A live panel recorded at AWS San Francisco bringing together open-source AI founders and builders from Zep AI, DataRobot, Command Prompt, Scalar Labs, StreamNative, and Omnistrate. The group moves past technical specs to share strategic and personal reflections on how open source AI teams deploy, scale, and monetize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRZe8xhymQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRZe8xhymQ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open Source, AI & Agents, Founder Stories BYOC has shifted from a deployment option to a buying requirement. AWS solutions architects and Omnistrate's Kamal Gupta break down why enterprises now demand software in their own cloud, the security building blocks that make it work, and how agentic AI and data gravity are accelerating the move toward Bring Your Own Cloud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5X2VOr-Spc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5X2VOr-Spc Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS Strategy, AI & Agents Recorded at the AWS re:Invent SaaS Summit, four open-source veterans from Percona, Couchbase, and Omnistrate break down what actually works when commercializing open source, and the expensive mistakes founders make. The panel covers open core vs. foundation models, avoiding MongoDB-style license backlash, and partnering with hyperscalers without getting 'Amazon'd'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSYDpv2vjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSYDpv2vjs Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open Source, Founder Stories, SaaS Strategy From token leaderboards and LLM FinOps to the rise of the 'Agent Shepherd', the panel unpacks what LLM Tokenomics means for engineering teams and developer productivity. They debate whether tokens are replacing developer time, why AI productivity gains are so inconsistent, and what makes a great engineer when English becomes the new programming language. They also look at what AI token costs do to engineering budgets, and whether SaaS is dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwCyMbfZKAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwCyMbfZKAY Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Growth & Pricing, SaaS Strategy As SaaS evolves for AI, so must the database. AWS's Subbu Ramarao joins the panel to examine how AI-native workloads and agentic access patterns, vector search, hybrid retrieval, and unpredictable agent-generated queries, are reshaping the DBaaS landscape, plus the resurgence of Postgres and how BYOC and pricing pressures are changing managed data services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXcPPYXcqXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXcPPYXcqXg Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data & Databases, AI & Agents, Cloud Infrastructure Sergey Pronin, founder of Solanica and former Percona engineer, joins the panel to discuss why the SaaS-only data model is fracturing. The conversation covers 'Dark Matter Data' trapped inside enterprises, treating databases like cattle on Kubernetes, API-driven self-service provisioning, and why donating Open Everest to the CNCF matters for license-stable infrastructure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npuYMJHyYKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npuYMJHyYKw Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data & Databases, AI & Agents, Open Source The first show of the new year as the hosts look back on a full year of conversations from the podcast. Bill Tarr, Markus Kaiser, Ermin Dzinic, Kamal Gupta, and host Michael Cooper share the most important lessons learned from founders, operators, and cloud leaders across SaaS, AI, and modern cloud platforms, and what those lessons mean heading into 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOw7Gr07S4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOw7Gr07S4 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure A live summit event featuring two panel discussions: 'Agentic AI: Revolution, Evolution or Hype?' examining how Agentic AI is reshaping the SaaS landscape, and 'Commercializing Open Source: Paths, Tradeoffs & Lessons' exploring strategies for building sustainable businesses around open technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNcqf9oolY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNcqf9oolY Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Open Source, SaaS Strategy Episode 19 examines what it means to pivot a SaaS company into an agentic architecture. HoneySales provides a real-world example: a startup that shifted from traditional sales workflows to an AI-driven, multi-agent system operating on AWS. This episode helps founders and engineering leaders understand the technical, organizational, and customer-facing implications of transitioning to Agentic SaaS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcMqtsPDaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcMqtsPDaI Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy, Founder Stories In today's session, we're unpacking one of the most critical questions for modern AI companies: How do you actually deploy agentic applications? Join us as we break down how agentic systems will be deployed at scale, what changes SaaS companies must prepare for, and what the future of agent-driven architectures looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjG96VWKDZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjG96VWKDZQ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture, SaaS Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure Varun Madan, Head of Engineering at Onehouse, walks through the journey of transforming the open-source Apache Hudi project into a high-performance, enterprise-ready SaaS platform. Covers data lakehouse architecture, building SaaS offerings, and includes a live demo of real-time data ingestion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjeLLZHM3lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjeLLZHM3lY Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Open Source, Data & Databases, SaaS Strategy Jaikumar Ganesha (JK), Head of Engineering at Anyscale, breaks down modern AI infrastructure challenges and how Ray (the open-source compute framework) is powering production-grade AI at scale. Covers the 'AI complexity wall,' distributed training, and includes a live demo of building a multimodal AI app. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzWr7wm7v_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzWr7wm7v_M Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture, Open Source, Founder Stories A conversation filmed at AWS offices in San Francisco about how Anyscale empowers teams to build, scale, and operate complex ML workflows. Covers control plane architecture, the evolution of SaaS, and advice for SaaS founders adapting to the agentic future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoMTnS4i2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoMTnS4i2o Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Cloud Infrastructure, Founder Stories AI applications are evolving from simple prompt-driven tools into agentic systems, intelligent applications that can reason, act, and adapt. But as builders race to bring these apps to market, the same questions keep coming up: What should we build ourselves? What should we leverage from the ecosystem? And how do we operate these apps as a managed service at scale? In this session, our guests unpack the architectural patterns, design choices, and deployment models shaping the next wave of agentic innovation. From front-end frameworks like Vercel + Next.js, to AWS-native AI services, to control planes that automate everything between, this is a blueprint for taking your Agentic App from prototype to managed platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3L5RVtQb4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3L5RVtQb4s Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture, AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy Welcome to Agentic SaaS Talks! For the past 16 episodes this series has been known as SaaS Monday, Live on Friday, our deep dives with AWS and some amazing founders and builders on how to design, build and scale great SaaS products. Today we're rebranding to reflect a massive shift in the industry: the rise of agentic systems, AI-driven software that acts autonomously, collaborates intelligently and continuously improves itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5BWl9l4OY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5BWl9l4OY Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy Tudor Golubenco, CTO of Xata and co-founder of Packetbeat joins us to explore how DBaaS for Postgres has matured, what Builders need today, and where the next wave of innovation is headed. Postgres has long been a cornerstone open-source database. What's changed dramatically is how it's delivered as a managed service (DBaaS), from the early days of AWS RDS to today's serverless, developer-first platforms like Xata. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDzpXynnEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDzpXynnEw Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Data & Databases, Cloud Infrastructure Exploring the future of SaaS Anywhere, how testing, virtualization, and cloud abstraction continue to move up the stack. Our guest of honor is Eli Aleyner, now Head of Technology Alliances at Docker and co-founder of AtomicJar, the team behind Testcontainers. Eli's career spans Pivotal, VMware Tanzu, AtomicJar, and now Docker, giving him a front-row seat to how infrastructure has evolved from virtualization to containerization to developer testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPP1X6LpiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPP1X6LpiY Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Developer Experience, SaaS Strategy, Founder Stories How do SaaS companies move from chaos to control? The answer: SaaS control planes, the mission control that powers scale, speed, and security across multi-tenant systems. Join the Omnistrate founders as they discuss building control planes for modern SaaS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1iEZnhJ-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1iEZnhJ-o Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS Strategy Joshua McKenty, legendary cloud architect, OpenStack co-founder, and now CEO of Polyguard, joins us for a no-fluff, high-impact conversation on innovating inside NASA, scaling SaaS from scratch (and from the edge), fighting synthetic identity fraud with AI, and why trust, privacy, and infrastructure are converging in 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVMJdjrx7Fw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVMJdjrx7Fw Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Security & Identity, Founder Stories This episode explores how Generative AI is transforming application development, making it faster, more accessible, and more modular. We focus on how platforms like Origin AI are helping founders and product leaders move from idea to working application logic using natural language and structured prompts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLtP30pRhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLtP30pRhI Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI Architecture, AI & Agents This episode focuses on turning SaaS growth strategy into scalable revenue using proven frameworks from subscription leaders. AWS experts and Capgemini Director discuss subscription-based growth models and strategies for SaaS businesses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8kWY_QuQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8kWY_QuQw Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Growth & Pricing, SaaS Strategy We dive into how Rox is pioneering the world's first enterprise-ready AI Agent Swarm, built to transform how revenue teams operate. Join us as we speak with Shriram Sridharan, co-founder of Rox, about his journey from scaling cloud infrastructure at Confluent and Amazon Aurora to launching a new kind of SaaS platform powered by agent-based AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHH2Nmv-h28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHH2Nmv-h28 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Founder Stories In this episode of SaaS Mondays Live, we dive into one of the most critical, and often most challenging, aspects of SaaS growth: Pricing and Packaging. Flynn Glover (Founder & CEO of Schematic) and Akshay Patel (SaaS/AI Product Strategist at AWS) unpack proven pricing strategies, innovative packaging models, and the latest trends shaping how SaaS companies monetize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s_CmfUqWQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s_CmfUqWQY Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Growth & Pricing, SaaS Strategy A special Notes from a Founder edition featuring Ashwin Raman, Co-founder and CTO of Spine AI, the world's first iterative deep research platform, built for speed, scale, and substance. Ashwin shares his journey building AI research tools from the ground up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FfOJoYcDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FfOJoYcDc Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, Founder Stories Leaders from Checkly and Plotline share lessons on building and scaling successful Vertical SaaS businesses. We explore how these companies carved out niches, delivered deep value to specific industries, and navigated the infrastructure, product, and growth challenges that come with building vertical-first platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGAgLANqxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGAgLANqxU Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT SaaS Strategy, Growth & Pricing Adam Nolte, Co-Founder & CTO of AutoBlocks.ai, the OS for AI Product Teams, shares the real-world journey of building AutoBlocks from the ground up: how the idea was born, the challenges faced while building for AI product teams, key lessons from turning vision into a launched product, and insights on the future of AI tooling and infrastructure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFW1zesu2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFW1zesu2k Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Founder Stories, AI Architecture The Head of Global Partnerships at Confluent discusses the transition from startup to scale-up phase. You've landed your first customers, now what? Scaling your SaaS business means more than just adding infrastructure. It means building repeatable onboarding, managing support without burning out your team, and delivering consistent experiences across multiple clouds and SaaS Deployment Models. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu94ja61HKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu94ja61HKM Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Growth & Pricing, Founder Stories AWS and Omnistrate experts explore various SaaS deployment models including fully hosted, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud), and hybrid approaches. A candid, technical discussion on the spectrum of SaaS deployment models, from fully hosted, to Private VPC, to BYOA/BYOC. We cover architecture patterns, real-world challenges, and the native cloud services that can (or can't) help you scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBnflK7Dnfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBnflK7Dnfo Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS Strategy Sridhar Adusumilli, CEO of Labra.io, discusses why Cloud Marketplaces matter for SaaS growth, the role of AWS Marketplace in SaaS success (EMEA vs USA), technical considerations for integrating SaaS with Cloud Marketplaces, and go-to-market strategies for SaaS on Cloud Marketplaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK9_l1eAvRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK9_l1eAvRk Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Growth & Pricing, Cloud Infrastructure AWS experts discuss how AI is transforming the SaaS landscape and what it means for builders and operators. This inaugural episode explores the impact of AI on SaaS development, deployment, and operations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwyIMZbhJno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwyIMZbhJno Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT AI & Agents, SaaS Strategy