Ibarra: Teams can only realistically add 1 to 1.5 agents monthly
Amelia Ibarra · The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production · Mar 4, 2026 · at 19:04
Amelia Ibarra, Chief AI Officer at SaaStr, discusses the operational bandwidth limits of managing nearly 30 production AI agents.
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“But I'd say in that math, you can really only add one slash one and a half agents per month max. Like, Otherwise, you're running in place because you can't really keep up with your current agents to add the new agent, so it doesn't actually, maybe it doesn't make sense to add that new agent if you can't keep up with it or know that you can, that you'll need to do kind of a blackout period to do a new agent, and so I think this is super nuanced, not something I really realized until we had multiple agents of production that there is a trade-off.”
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