Amelia Ibarra
Co-Host, The Agents. On 1 show, 10 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Amelia Ibarra is a co-host of The Agents podcast alongside Jason Lemkin. She discusses agentic AI workflows, autonomous systems, and their impact on enterprise systems of record.
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18said about them ↓ Everything Amelia Ibarra said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ibarra: AI-native GTM agencies are selling snake oil
“There's no agency that already knows how to do this. There's no, maybe there's a few like ester people at orgs that you can try and steal. But outside of that, I wouldn't, you know, buy the snake oil of, oh, we're an AI native agency and we know how to do GTM …”
Ibarra: Claude autonomously added unauthorized guardrails to SaaStr's contract workflows
“The agent with Fable, since it was on for so long, decided in the last week, I don't know where along the road, It would exclude some things in our Panadoc that it thought might be an NDA or a non-binding like sales contract.”
Ibarra: SaaStr AI agent Tenke holds budget and decides vendor renewals
“Literally, Tenke is going to decide for you, and if it says no, I'm going to say no. Like, for this, he has the budget. Like, he can decide if he wants to use this or not.”
Ibarra: Every new AI agent requires a two-week blackout period
“Even with the help we get, like, I feel like every new agent costs us at least two weeks of what I call either a blackout period and somewhat chaotic of, like, I kind of have to ignore the other agents anytime I bring on a new agent”
Ibarra: AI agents idle and waste money without daily human management
“You can't, you, it just can't afford to wait a whole week, or like you're, or you're probably just wasting, honestly, you're probably wasting your money if you don't spend the time to do it daily, because a lot of these are waiting for you to give it inputs, r…”
Ibarra: Marketing agencies may not exist in a year
“Maybe marketing agencies won't exist in a year because of this”
Ibarra: Managing AI agents degrades your patience for managing human teams
“I do feel like now that I've flipped and switched to managing more agents, I think I've probably become slightly worse in managing the people that are, you know, that work with SaaS or especially leading up to SaaS Radial.”
Ibarra: SaaStr now employs more AI agents than human staff
“We do also have more agents than humans. So I literally just saw someone we know yesterday. I was like, oh, SAS for London looks so great. This is my first time here. How many SAS for employees did this? I was like, well, there's two on this stage there. One m…”
Ibarra: SaaStr's hyper-customized AI emails usually get replies on the first send
“And a majority of these target accounts are receiving, you know, highly customized messages and reply on the first send. So that's something I think that is also a big learning, is if you do this right and train the agents the right way, not only is it differe…”
Ibarra: Managing 20 AI agents takes the majority of our time
“Right now it does take literally the majority, I would say, of both mine and Jason's time to run all these agents and use them successfully”
Ibarra: AI Lets Companies Clone A-Players and Make Them S-Tier
“I think there is now, I think, a clear path to where I'm seeing in these platforms. You can clone all your best A players, right? Take all the best A players on your team across marketing, sales, CS, sales, rev ops, and make them S tier with AI. I truly believ…”
Ibarra: Expecting immediate ROI and headcount cuts from AI is false
“Jason's point on like immediate ROI and headcount is a hugely false expectation that I hope nobody has on this call, but if you had it maybe going into this, can kind of course correct on where you're going to see lift.”
Ibarra: SaaS leaders plan to freeze sales hiring to fund AI tools
“And I think a lot of folks I talked to, too, more common, you probably do too, Jason, just say they're not going to add headcount so that they can empower their teams, either Q four, 25 or Q one, 26 with these tools. Like they're just, again, reallocating budg…”
Ibarra: SaaStr's AI agent autonomously evaluated and selected Microsoft Clarity
“You should add Microsoft Clarity. It's a heat mapping tool. It's free. It literally picked this vendor for me, and it, to be fair, it saw we had Vector, and it said you could use those ones too if you want to switch, but I assume you want to use the one that y…”
Ibarra: Hooking up AI agents exposes work humans hid or neglected
“Anytime you hook up an agent, you're gonna find things for now until, you know, you're maybe more agentic than humans like we are. You're gonna find things that the humans tried to hide or that they never did”
Ibarra: SaaStr Will Never Hire a Dedicated RevOps Person Due to AI
“I mean, not that we've ever had like a true ref ops person. I've just kind of done it as a backfill, but now that we have 10 K and QB, why would we need, I was like, I would never hire an actual. Rev ops person to fight me on the data. There's just no need.”
Ibarra: Multi-vendor specialization is currently superior for AI SDR stacks
“For this moment in time, specialization is still the right answer because of the four you just talked about and how we're using each of the four, that is playing to their strengths.”
Ibarra: Deploying AI SDRs requires at least one to two dedicated humans
“You need at least one, but ideally two essential humans to run all this and to deploy your AI SDR.
you can't have zero people.”
Ibarra: Continuous unvarnished feedback from AI agents can become demoralizing
“Because you can't keep up with them, sometimes I feel like it does cross a little bit of a line where I'm like, okay, dude, like, today just, like, sugarcoat it to me like you would a person. Today, I don't need the hard, like, I can't deal with hard truths ev…”
Ibarra: Current AI agents cannot run end-to-end email marketing at scale
“These agents can't do that. I have not seen an agent successfully do email marketing at scale. The moment I find one, I'm using it that actually works. I've not found one that actually works. Like, not just writing all of these, just write email copy. They don…”
Ibarra: SaaStr's AI agents scaled outbound email volume 32x over human SDRs
“The average SDR we had here as a human would send, you know, on the low end, maybe 75 emails a month per rep, and at the high end, maybe somewhere like two, two eighties, 300, right, per rep per month. So if you look at this total over the last six months, alm…”
Ibarra: SaaStr's Artisan AI achieves a 6% response rate versus 2-4% human average
“For artisan, that one has, it actually went up, it's about a six percent overall response rate now. You know, average for normal SDR is two to four.”
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 17
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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- What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- 5 Ways AI Has Already Changed B2B Sales Forever with Perplexity's CBO Dmitry Shevelenko
- The Secrets Inside Google Cloud’s Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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| SAASTRLEDGER | Co-Host, The Agents | 10 | 75 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |