Great recap from the #SaaStr event! Thanks for having our CEO Jason Boehmig and A16Z Partner Seema Amble to speak on what's working (and what's not) in AI!
A privilege to learn from Seema Amble, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Jason Boehmig, CEO at Ironclad, at #SaaStr as they talked us through the top 5 strategies that are working in GenAI today. No huge surprises in the list, but nice to have it on good authority. My takeaways from the session were: ?? - ???????????????????? ?????? ???????????????? ?????????????? Using AI to provide chatbot support, finding answers in help docs, explaining the product. But also, to generate high quality client-specific documentation for enterprise implementations that have a lot of unique configuration. ?? - ???????????????????? ?????????? ???????? Shocking how much of a senior professional's today still contains routine work such as transcribing, form filling, and extraction of information from data. AI can do a 90% job of much of this, requiring some light touch human oversight. ?? - ???????????????????????? ???????????? Basing on a foundational LLM rather than training a bespoke model to avoid an arms race that you can't win; a better approach being Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG, where a customised foundational model (e.g. a Custom GPT) adds polish and context to search results, particularly from complex or specialised data sets (secret: incoming at Ruleguard !) ?? - ?????????? ?????? Speeding up lawyers' workflows not just by pulling out the key contractual details from a lengthy contract, but comparing two competing contracts and contrasting the key positions across both. That certainly resonated from the world of Enterprise SaaS procurement! ?? - ?????????????? ???????? Certainly make sure your product has table-stakes AI features to keep pace... but work on your AI differentiators. Recommended that the CEO switch into #FounderMode to give momentum to the R&D and ensure iterations are effective enough to reach market quickly. Seema and Jason also underscored a recurring theme of #SaaStr that it's a human-first strategy that wins: humans like to work with humans so let's give a human a more powerful tool to do valuable work more effectively. Or to use another quip that I heard at least once per day... ???? ??????'?? ???????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ?? ????????? ??????? ?? ???????????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ?????????! #GenerativeAI #AI #SaaStrAnnual #SaaStr #SaaS #EnterpriseSaaS #B2BSaaS #Leadership