AI agents must each be assigned a single, specific goal
Amelia LeRutte · How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step · Jun 26, 2026 · at 8:28
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Amelia LeRutte shares architecture heuristics for building role-specific AI agents at SaaStr.
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“Make sure you give your agent one goal. So that's also why we have like multiple agents between our AI VP of Marketing, our AI VP of Customer Success, our AI Sash Reannual agent. Like, they all have different brains. I don't like to overload them. I like to keep them specific. So we gave this guy one goal of what to do.”
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