AI & Agents
All 16 Agentic SaaS Talks episodes about AI & Agents.
AI & Agents episodes
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Episode 30: Building the Business Behind Open Source AI @ AWS San Francisco [Live]
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.
Episode 29: Ep 23: BYOC or Bust: Why Enterprise Customers Want You in Their Cloud
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.
Episode 27: Ep 22: LLM Tokenomics: New Economics Making 'Cheap' Engineers Expensive
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.
Episode 26: Ep 21: The Future of DBaaS in an AI World: Industry Trends & Access Patterns
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.
Episode 25: Ep 20: Future of Cloud-Native Data Services with AI and Agents
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.
Episode 24: Agentic SaaS Talks — 2025 Year in Review
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.
Episode 20: The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event
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.
Episode 19: Leaning into Agentic: How HoneySales Pivoted to an AI-Driven Future
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.
Episode 23: Revolutionizing AI SaaS: Control Plane Innovation and Modern Cloud Models with Anyscale
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.
Episode 17: Agentic Architectures: Building AI Apps that Think and Scale
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.
Episode 16: From SaaS to Agentic SaaS: Autonomy, Orchestration & Opportunity
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.
Episode 12: Founders, Fraud, and the Future of AI with Joshua Mckenty
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.
Episode 11: From Prompt to Product AI with OriginAI CEO
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.
Episode 9: Inside the AI Agent Swarm with Rox CTO
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.
Episode 7: The Spine AI Story with Ashwin Raman
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.
Episode 1: How will AI Impact SaaS Builders
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.