Ibarra: SaaStr's AI agent autonomously evaluated and selected Microsoft Clarity
Amelia Ibarra · The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us · Aug 5, 2026 · at 16:03
Amelia Ibarra, VP at SaaStr, describes how their autonomous AI agent selected and configured software vendors during a website revamp.
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“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 you already have, and then for heat, it said for heat mapping, you don't have anything installed. Microsoft Clarity is free. Just sign up for an account, and then tell me when you're logged in on, on Chrome with Claude, and then I'll build you the audience, and that's exactly what it is, so that it picks the vendor for the heat mapping. I didn't even do two seconds of Googling.”
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