SaaS Scaled - Interviews about SaaS Startups, Analytics, & Operations

Today, we’re joined by Raju Malhotra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Certinia, the leading global provider of AI-powered Professional Services Automation (PSA). We talk about:
The evolution of helping professional services organizations end to end
Impacts of AI on SaaS and professional services companies
How the “old way” of thinking about SaaS has changed with AI
The five elements that make an AI agent great
The risk of “AI Agent Slop”

Today, we’re joined by Alex Yakubovich, co-founder and CEO of Levelpath, the AI-native procurement platform transforming how global enterprises manage indirect spend. We talk about:
If software apps must become autonomous to be successful in the future
Using AI to help build software
Does SaaS have a future, or strictly AI as a service?
Why the question, “Is SaaS dead” is moot
How some SaaS pricing models can feel icky

Today, we’re joined by Ariel Assaraf, Co-Founder and CEO of Coralogix, the data and AI platform for observability. We talk about:
Why observability was an underutilized data resource for many years
How engineering skills will be found in more areas of the organization
Four phases of creating distinct user interfaces for AI agents
The impacts of widespread improved observability
Personalizing insights per person, not persona

Today, we’re joined by Manuel Schönfeld, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Chief AI Officer (CAIO) at Qu POS, Inc. the pioneer of the restaurant industry’s first unified commerce platform. We talk about:

Fundamentally changing a company to achieve an eight X multiplier
How AI can help maintain software
How getting AI to work on your code is a double-edged sword
AI enabling, “one person teams” for product, coding, QA, etc.
The mindset change needed to understand how to build maintainable code

Today, we’re joined by Mahesh Rajasekharan, President and CEO of Cleo, the global leader in supply chain orchestration (SCO) solutions. We talk about:
How SaaS companies can win in the AI age
The top three challenges to focus on when adding AI to your product
Clarifying the misconception that software development becomes trivial in the AI world
The best domains in which to start a new company
Transitioning from building software for human users to human-supervised, tech-driven operations