Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, and Emilia Laroute, SaaStr's Chief AI Officer, discuss how to choose among the flood of AI agent platforms and tools. The conversation covers which solutions work best, from Replit and Lovable to AI SDR tools and RevOps platforms.
All right. Welcome everybody. My name is Craig Swensrud, the founder and CEO of Qualified, and I'm joined today in Qualified Studios by two very special guests. Of course, we have Jason M. Lemkin, who's originally the founder and CEO of EchoSign, sold to Adobe in 2011. And of course, everybody knows him today as the founder and CEO of Saastr, and also Emilia Laroute, who is the chief AI officer of Saastr, which is, which is totally awesome. Thank you so much for being with us today.
Thanks so much. Yeah, that's great.
All right. So what does everybody want to know about in today's day and age? Agents. What's going on out there in the real world with agents? And Jason, something I read, you know, that you post on LinkedIn was people are wondering, there's a ton of agent platforms, agentic solutions, AI this, AI that, that are on the market right now. Like, where do I actually start? And then I think somebody wrote, you know, what, you know, what's better, Replit or Lovable? Which AI SDR platform is the best? What AI tool is the best for RevOps? And you had a killer answer to that. Can you share that with us?
Yeah, it was learning because, you know, we started, we started 2025 behind. We had a lot of AI speakers at SaaStr, but we were pretty AI lean here. We started with one general tool and now we've expanded to 20 agents and we use Qualified and 20 tools that are sort of maybe 12 are part of our core, architecture, which Amelia can talk about. But it took me a while to know the answer to that question, or to know the answer between Repl.it and Lovable. They're related. We could talk about it.
