Amelia Lerutte
Amelia Lerutte is the Chief AI Officer at SaaStr, the B2B SaaS community and conference company founded by Jason Lemkin. Previously SaaStr's VP of Marketing, she now leads the company's AI strategy and implementation, building and managing an AI agent stack—including an AI VP of Marketing she calls "10K"—that runs go-to-market functions with a team of 20-plus AI agents and three humans. She is known for practical, rapid AI deployment in marketing operations and co-hosts "The Agents," a weekly show with Lemkin covering real-world AI agent use cases.
“We pay more for Salesforce than we used to... We're down to a couple seats on Salesforce per se, right? Because our team is 20 agents, three humans. But we pay more for Salesforce than we used to.”
Source→“It's just terrible that Amelia can Vibe a solution to a critical issue, a canned spam mission in Marketo, that she can Vibe an answer in an hour of work. But their whole engineering team forces her to have an all hands call and weeks later has no proposed solution.”
Source→“Our AI sales team are third-party tools. We use Artisan, Qualified, Monaco, and Agent Force, right? Those are four. For the most part, those do run autonomously if we set them up, review the text, review the guardrails. They have then sent over 100,000 emails on their own.”
Source→“We're down to a couple seats on Salesforce per se, right? Because our team is 20 agents, three humans.”
Source→“He hired an ex-CEO. Like he hired an ex-technical founder who was burnt out on his startup, didn't want to do this for himself anymore, but was technical to be their head of agentic operations. And now he's the one... He said he's had this person now for over a year, like he hasn't gone anywhere.”
Source→“I wonder if it'll make mediocre CS folks even lazier. I, you know, you go solve it, right?... We're just a 20-year-old software platform that charges you $60,000 a year. We don't provide support.”
Source→“"It basically did everything short of hitting the send button... our AI VP of marketing, much like a true — true things I used to do as our VP of marketing, would segment the list, write the copy, identify the right folks. But also, he came up with this campaign." — Amelia Lerutte [00:05:42]”
Source→“"Having a chatbot on your website is not a replacement for actually fixing the problem... having that does not — that should not exclude you from actually backfilling support, from finding FDEs, from finding folks that know the product." — Amelia Lerutte [00:58:35]”
Source→“The parking pass system took 90 minutes to build and eliminated hundreds of hours of annual labor.”
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