A speaker describes how AI complements SaaS platforms like HubSpot by bridging structured and unstructured data. They argue HubSpot excels at storing structured data while AI handles unstructured data, enabling new interactions such as "chatting with your data" and creating avatars from data; combined, these will make applications more powerful.
I sort of think SaaS plus AI are like chocolate and peanut butter. I think they go together perfectly. And I just think of an application like HubSpot and others like it, where there's a database. And basically HubSpot is really good at taking gobs of structured data and putting it inside of this database and then giving people access to it through a pretty structured process of menus or search. The way HubSpot's going, the way the world is going and the way AI is going is AI is really good at at unstructured data. HubSpot has access to gobs of unstructured data. Combining those tools can be incredibly powerful. What's interesting about AI, it's like unstructured data and unstructured ways to get at it. So you'll be able to chat with your data, you're going to be able to create an avatar from your data, you're going to be able to kind of combine all that together to very powerful things. So I think of HubSpot, you're able to access your structured and unstructured in new ways. I think our applications are going to get much, much more powerful.
