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Deep dives into agentic AI, SaaS architecture, and the future of intelligent applications

36 Episodes Available

July 10, 202611 min

Episode 36: Removing Data Consistency Bottlenecks : Building High Margin Scalable AI Business on Cloud

Joe McCunney, CEO of Scalar Labs, makes the case that reliable, consistent data across environments is the hidden bottleneck for enterprise AI, especially in large organizations juggling 300+ database types. He explains how ScalarDB acts as a database-agnostic binder that connects multiple data sources and treats them as a single database, and how the company's open source refactoring agent generates architecture docs and migration plans that cut enterprise design time by up to 85%.

Episode 35: The Founder's Guide to Scaling Open Source AI Products to Production on AWS

Omnistrate co-founders Kamal Gupta and Alok Nikhil map the road from open source adoption to revenue: the four ingredients of monetization (project, enterprise features, distribution, go-to-market) and the three business models open to open source AI companies, product-led growth, AWS Marketplace co-sell, and enterprise sales. Alok closes with a live demo that turns vLLM into a managed inference service with a self-service customer portal, showing why distribution needs a control plane and why a Marketplace listing alone gets you discovered but not paid.

Episode 34: How to Govern & Monetize Agentic AI | DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform

Romi Datta, VP and Head of Product Management at DataRobot, explains why enterprise AI is moving past chatbots and copilots toward full agent workforces, and why 95% of agentic AI pilots still fail to deliver measurable ROI. He walks through production use cases from insurance claims processing to industrial safety at Chevron (with NVIDIA edge AI), then breaks down the governance, observability, secure context management, and agent memory an enterprise platform needs to run agents in cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped environments.

Episode 33: Open Source Survival in the Age of AI: Joshua Drake on Licensing, Governance & Monetization

Joshua Drake, President and CTO of Command Prompt with nearly 30 years in the PostgreSQL community, lays out the risks AI creates for open source: extraction without attribution, model collapse, AI-generated security holes, and legal exposure from derivative work. He argues that proof of human contribution, signed origins, and governance with humans in the loop matter more than ever, and shows how commercial open source companies can adopt AI without losing community trust.

Episode 32: EP 24: Up a Layer: The Rise of the Agentic Builder and the CAMPstack

The panel unpacks how builders are moving "up a layer", from writing every line of implementation to directing AI agents, composing managed services, and shipping faster on product judgment. They introduce the CAMP stack (Cloud, Agents, Managed services, Platforms) and dig into intent engineering, infrastructure control planes, the token economics of running agents 24/7, and why testing remains the hardest part of AI-generated code.

Episode 31: Building BYOC for Fortune 500: The Real Story of Enterprise AI Deployment

Daniel Chalef, founder and CEO of Zep AI, walks through the brutal technical reality of deploying AI products into Fortune 500 environments, zero-trust architectures, Service Control Policies, no-egress VPCs, and broken image supply chains. He explains why pure SaaS AI products can't meet enterprise security bars and how Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments actually get shipped into locked-down customer infrastructure.

Episode 30: Building the Business Behind Open Source AI @ AWS San Francisco [Live]

A live panel recorded at AWS San Francisco bringing together open-source AI founders and builders from Zep AI, DataRobot, Command Prompt, Scalar Labs, StreamNative, and Omnistrate. The group moves past technical specs to share strategic and personal reflections on how open source AI teams deploy, scale, and monetize.

Episode 29: Ep 23: BYOC or Bust: Why Enterprise Customers Want You in Their Cloud

BYOC has shifted from a deployment option to a buying requirement. AWS solutions architects and Omnistrate's Kamal Gupta break down why enterprises now demand software in their own cloud, the security building blocks that make it work, and how agentic AI and data gravity are accelerating the move toward Bring Your Own Cloud.

Episode 28: Commercializing Open Source: Why Most Founders Get It Wrong

Recorded at the AWS re:Invent SaaS Summit, four open-source veterans from Percona, Couchbase, and Omnistrate break down what actually works when commercializing open source, and the expensive mistakes founders make. The panel covers open core vs. foundation models, avoiding MongoDB-style license backlash, and partnering with hyperscalers without getting 'Amazon'd'.

Episode 27: Ep 22: LLM Tokenomics: New Economics Making 'Cheap' Engineers Expensive

From token leaderboards and LLM FinOps to the rise of the 'Agent Shepherd', the panel unpacks what LLM Tokenomics means for engineering teams and developer productivity. They debate whether tokens are replacing developer time, why AI productivity gains are so inconsistent, and what makes a great engineer when English becomes the new programming language.

Episode 26: Ep 21: The Future of DBaaS in an AI World: Industry Trends & Access Patterns

As SaaS evolves for AI, so must the database. AWS's Subbu Ramarao joins the panel to examine how AI-native workloads and agentic access patterns, vector search, hybrid retrieval, and unpredictable agent-generated queries, are reshaping the DBaaS landscape, plus the resurgence of Postgres and how BYOC and pricing pressures are changing managed data services.

Data & Databases

AI & Agents

Ep 20: Future of Cloud-Native Data Services with AI and Agents

52 min

February 19, 202652 min

Episode 25: Ep 20: Future of Cloud-Native Data Services with AI and Agents

Sergey Pronin, founder of Solanica and former Percona engineer, joins the panel to discuss why the SaaS-only data model is fracturing. The conversation covers 'Dark Matter Data' trapped inside enterprises, treating databases like cattle on Kubernetes, API-driven self-service provisioning, and why donating Open Everest to the CNCF matters for license-stable infrastructure.

Data & Databases

AI & Agents

56 min

January 9, 202656 min

Episode 24: Agentic SaaS Talks, 2025 Year in Review

The first show of the new year as the hosts look back on a full year of conversations from the podcast. Bill Tarr, Markus Kaiser, Ermin Dzinic, Kamal Gupta, and host Michael Cooper share the most important lessons learned from founders, operators, and cloud leaders across SaaS, AI, and modern cloud platforms, and what those lessons mean heading into 2026.

AI & Agents

SaaS Strategy

The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event

105 min

December 2, 2025105 min

Episode 20: The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event

A live summit event featuring two panel discussions: 'Agentic AI: Revolution, Evolution or Hype?' examining how Agentic AI is reshaping the SaaS landscape, and 'Commercializing Open Source: Paths, Tradeoffs & Lessons' exploring strategies for building sustainable businesses around open technologies.

AI & Agents

Open Source

Leaning into Agentic: How HoneySales Pivoted to an AI-Driven Future

58 min

November 28, 202558 min

Episode 19: Leaning into Agentic: How HoneySales Pivoted to an AI-Driven Future

Episode 19 examines what it means to pivot a SaaS company into an agentic architecture. HoneySales provides a real-world example: a startup that shifted from traditional sales workflows to an AI-driven, multi-agent system operating on AWS. This episode helps founders and engineering leaders understand the technical, organizational, and customer-facing implications of transitioning to Agentic SaaS.

AI & Agents

SaaS Strategy

Deploying Agentic Applications: From Multi-Tenant to "SaaS Anywhere"

66 min

November 14, 202566 min

Episode 18: Deploying Agentic Applications: From Multi-Tenant to "SaaS Anywhere"

In today's session, we're unpacking one of the most critical questions for modern AI companies: How do you actually deploy agentic applications? Join us as we break down how agentic systems will be deployed at scale, what changes SaaS companies must prepare for, and what the future of agent-driven architectures looks like.

AI Architecture

SaaS Strategy

From Open-Source to SaaS with Head of Engineering at Onehouse

23 min

October 10, 202523 min

Episode 21: From Open-Source to SaaS with Head of Engineering at Onehouse

Varun Madan, Head of Engineering at Onehouse, walks through the journey of transforming the open-source Apache Hudi project into a high-performance, enterprise-ready SaaS platform. Covers data lakehouse architecture, building SaaS offerings, and includes a live demo of real-time data ingestion.

Open Source

Data & Databases

Taming AI Complexity with Head of Engineering at Anyscale

25 min

October 8, 202525 min

Episode 22: Taming AI Complexity with Head of Engineering at Anyscale

Jaikumar Ganesha (JK), Head of Engineering at Anyscale, breaks down modern AI infrastructure challenges and how Ray (the open-source compute framework) is powering production-grade AI at scale. Covers the 'AI complexity wall,' distributed training, and includes a live demo of building a multimodal AI app.

AI Architecture

Open Source

Revolutionizing AI SaaS: Control Plane Innovation and Modern Cloud Models with Anyscale

14 min

August 20, 202514 min

Episode 23: Revolutionizing AI SaaS: Control Plane Innovation and Modern Cloud Models with Anyscale

A conversation filmed at AWS offices in San Francisco about how Anyscale empowers teams to build, scale, and operate complex ML workflows. Covers control plane architecture, the evolution of SaaS, and advice for SaaS founders adapting to the agentic future.

AI & Agents

Cloud Infrastructure

Agentic Architectures: Building AI Apps that Think and Scale

57 min

January 20, 202557 min

Episode 17: Agentic Architectures: Building AI Apps that Think and Scale

AI applications are evolving from simple prompt-driven tools into agentic systems, intelligent applications that can reason, act, and adapt. But as builders race to bring these apps to market, the same questions keep coming up: What should we build ourselves? What should we leverage from the ecosystem? And how do we operate these apps as a managed service at scale? In this session, our guests unpack the architectural patterns, design choices, and deployment models shaping the next wave of agentic innovation. From front-end frameworks like Vercel + Next.js, to AWS-native AI services, to control planes that automate everything between, this is a blueprint for taking your Agentic App from prototype to managed platform.

AI Architecture

AI & Agents

From SaaS to Agentic SaaS: Autonomy, Orchestration & Opportunity

51 min

December 16, 202451 min

Episode 16: From SaaS to Agentic SaaS: Autonomy, Orchestration & Opportunity

Welcome to Agentic SaaS Talks! For the past 16 episodes this series has been known as SaaS Monday, Live on Friday, our deep dives with AWS and some amazing founders and builders on how to design, build and scale great SaaS products. Today we're rebranding to reflect a massive shift in the industry: the rise of agentic systems, AI-driven software that acts autonomously, collaborates intelligently and continuously improves itself.

AI & Agents

SaaS Strategy

67 min

December 2, 202467 min

Episode 15: Evolution of DBaaS with Xata Founder

Tudor Golubenco, CTO of Xata and co-founder of Packetbeat joins us to explore how DBaaS for Postgres has matured, what Builders need today, and where the next wave of innovation is headed. Postgres has long been a cornerstone open-source database. What's changed dramatically is how it's delivered as a managed service (DBaaS), from the early days of AWS RDS to today's serverless, developer-first platforms like Xata.

Data & Databases

Cloud Infrastructure

Accelerating Dev Experience & SaaS Testing

64 min

November 25, 202464 min

Episode 14: Accelerating Dev Experience & SaaS Testing

Exploring the future of SaaS Anywhere, how testing, virtualization, and cloud abstraction continue to move up the stack. Our guest of honor is Eli Aleyner, now Head of Technology Alliances at Docker and co-founder of AtomicJar, the team behind Testcontainers. Eli's career spans Pivotal, VMware Tanzu, AtomicJar, and now Docker, giving him a front-row seat to how infrastructure has evolved from virtualization to containerization to developer testing.

Developer Experience

SaaS Strategy

From Chaos to Control with Omnistrate's Founders

62 min

October 28, 202462 min

Episode 13: From Chaos to Control with Omnistrate's Founders

How do SaaS companies move from chaos to control? The answer: SaaS control planes, the mission control that powers scale, speed, and security across multi-tenant systems. Join the Omnistrate founders as they discuss building control planes for modern SaaS.

Cloud Infrastructure

SaaS Strategy

Founders, Fraud, and the Future of AI with Joshua Mckenty

68 min

October 21, 202468 min

Episode 12: Founders, Fraud, and the Future of AI with Joshua Mckenty

Joshua McKenty, legendary cloud architect, OpenStack co-founder, and now CEO of Polyguard, joins us for a no-fluff, high-impact conversation on innovating inside NASA, scaling SaaS from scratch (and from the edge), fighting synthetic identity fraud with AI, and why trust, privacy, and infrastructure are converging in 2025.

AI & Agents

Security & Identity

From Prompt to Product AI with OriginAI CEO

65 min

September 16, 202465 min

Episode 11: From Prompt to Product AI with OriginAI CEO

This episode explores how Generative AI is transforming application development, making it faster, more accessible, and more modular. We focus on how platforms like Origin AI are helping founders and product leaders move from idea to working application logic using natural language and structured prompts.

AI Architecture

AI & Agents

Mastering Growth Through Subscription with AWS Experts

62 min

September 9, 202462 min

Episode 10: Mastering Growth Through Subscription with AWS Experts

This episode focuses on turning SaaS growth strategy into scalable revenue using proven frameworks from subscription leaders. AWS experts and Capgemini Director discuss subscription-based growth models and strategies for SaaS businesses.

Growth & Pricing

SaaS Strategy

57 min

August 26, 202457 min

Episode 9: Inside the AI Agent Swarm with Rox CTO

We dive into how Rox is pioneering the world's first enterprise-ready AI Agent Swarm, built to transform how revenue teams operate. Join us as we speak with Shriram Sridharan, co-founder of Rox, about his journey from scaling cloud infrastructure at Confluent and Amazon Aurora to launching a new kind of SaaS platform powered by agent-based AI.

AI & Agents

Founder Stories

Pricing and Packaging for SaaS Companies

61 min

August 19, 202461 min

Episode 8: Pricing and Packaging for SaaS Companies

In this episode of SaaS Mondays Live, we dive into one of the most critical, and often most challenging, aspects of SaaS growth: Pricing and Packaging. Flynn Glover (Founder & CEO of Schematic) and Akshay Patel (SaaS/AI Product Strategist at AWS) unpack proven pricing strategies, innovative packaging models, and the latest trends shaping how SaaS companies monetize.

Growth & Pricing

SaaS Strategy

60 min

August 12, 202460 min

Episode 7: The Spine AI Story with Ashwin Raman

A special Notes from a Founder edition featuring Ashwin Raman, Co-founder and CTO of Spine AI, the world's first iterative deep research platform, built for speed, scale, and substance. Ashwin shares his journey building AI research tools from the ground up.

Episode 6: Building Vertical SaaS with Plotline and Checkly Leaders

Leaders from Checkly and Plotline share lessons on building and scaling successful Vertical SaaS businesses. We explore how these companies carved out niches, delivered deep value to specific industries, and navigated the infrastructure, product, and growth challenges that come with building vertical-first platforms.

Episode 5: From Idea to Launch: The AutoBlocks Journey with Adam Nolte

Adam Nolte, Co-Founder & CTO of AutoBlocks.ai, the OS for AI Product Teams, shares the real-world journey of building AutoBlocks from the ground up: how the idea was born, the challenges faced while building for AI product teams, key lessons from turning vision into a launched product, and insights on the future of AI tooling and infrastructure.

Episode 4: From Startup to Scale-up with Confluent

The Head of Global Partnerships at Confluent discusses the transition from startup to scale-up phase. You've landed your first customers, now what? Scaling your SaaS business means more than just adding infrastructure. It means building repeatable onboarding, managing support without burning out your team, and delivering consistent experiences across multiple clouds and SaaS Deployment Models.

Episode 3: SaaS Deployment Models, From Fully Hosted to BYOC

AWS and Omnistrate experts explore various SaaS deployment models including fully hosted, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud), and hybrid approaches. A candid, technical discussion on the spectrum of SaaS deployment models, from fully hosted, to Private VPC, to BYOA/BYOC. We cover architecture patterns, real-world challenges, and the native cloud services that can (or can't) help you scale.

Episode 2: The Importance of Cloud Marketplaces with Labra's CEO

Sridhar Adusumilli, CEO of Labra.io, discusses why Cloud Marketplaces matter for SaaS growth, the role of AWS Marketplace in SaaS success (EMEA vs USA), technical considerations for integrating SaaS with Cloud Marketplaces, and go-to-market strategies for SaaS on Cloud Marketplaces.

Episode 1: How will AI Impact SaaS Builders

AWS experts discuss how AI is transforming the SaaS landscape and what it means for builders and operators. This inaugural episode explores the impact of AI on SaaS development, deployment, and operations.

Episode Archive

Episodes

Episode 36: Removing Data Consistency Bottlenecks : Building High Margin Scalable AI Business on Cloud

Episode 35: The Founder's Guide to Scaling Open Source AI Products to Production on AWS

Episode 34: How to Govern & Monetize Agentic AI | DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform

Episode 33: Open Source Survival in the Age of AI: Joshua Drake on Licensing, Governance & Monetization

Episode 32: EP 24: Up a Layer: The Rise of the Agentic Builder and the CAMPstack

Episode 31: Building BYOC for Fortune 500: The Real Story of Enterprise AI Deployment

Episode 30: Building the Business Behind Open Source AI @ AWS San Francisco [Live]

Episode 29: Ep 23: BYOC or Bust: Why Enterprise Customers Want You in Their Cloud

Episode 28: Commercializing Open Source: Why Most Founders Get It Wrong

Episode 27: Ep 22: LLM Tokenomics: New Economics Making 'Cheap' Engineers Expensive

Episode 26: Ep 21: The Future of DBaaS in an AI World: Industry Trends & Access Patterns

Episode 25: Ep 20: Future of Cloud-Native Data Services with AI and Agents

Episode 24: Agentic SaaS Talks, 2025 Year in Review

Episode 20: The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event

Episode 19: Leaning into Agentic: How HoneySales Pivoted to an AI-Driven Future

Episode 18: Deploying Agentic Applications: From Multi-Tenant to "SaaS Anywhere"

Episode 21: From Open-Source to SaaS with Head of Engineering at Onehouse

Episode 22: Taming AI Complexity with Head of Engineering at Anyscale

Episode 23: Revolutionizing AI SaaS: Control Plane Innovation and Modern Cloud Models with Anyscale

Episode 17: Agentic Architectures: Building AI Apps that Think and Scale

Episode 16: From SaaS to Agentic SaaS: Autonomy, Orchestration & Opportunity

Episode 15: Evolution of DBaaS with Xata Founder

Episode 14: Accelerating Dev Experience & SaaS Testing

Episode 13: From Chaos to Control with Omnistrate's Founders

Episode 12: Founders, Fraud, and the Future of AI with Joshua Mckenty

Episode 11: From Prompt to Product AI with OriginAI CEO

Episode 10: Mastering Growth Through Subscription with AWS Experts

Episode 9: Inside the AI Agent Swarm with Rox CTO

Episode 8: Pricing and Packaging for SaaS Companies

Episode 7: The Spine AI Story with Ashwin Raman

Episode 6: Building Vertical SaaS with Plotline and Checkly Leaders

Episode 5: From Idea to Launch: The AutoBlocks Journey with Adam Nolte

Episode 4: From Startup to Scale-up with Confluent

Episode 3: SaaS Deployment Models, From Fully Hosted to BYOC

Episode 2: The Importance of Cloud Marketplaces with Labra's CEO

Episode 1: How will AI Impact SaaS Builders

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