Three Clicks to Update a Lead? You’re Already Behind
Remember when you paid $100/month for a CRM and celebrated? Now it will feel expensive in 2026
Most people are paying $100/month with a small prayer to generate a report. Your paid CRM needs 3 clicks to update a lead and multiple interventions to generate a report that makes sense.
This is something that nobody’s saying out loud: in 2026, your shiny SaaS dashboard is becoming the world’s most expensive database.
Here are the changes I have figured out.
AI agents don’t log in. They don’t navigate tabs or click buttons.
They work while you’re offline without pressing a single button:
Capture leads automatically
Write personalized follow-ups at 3 am
Track buying signals across multiple channels
Report revenue forecasts before your Monday standup
Your CRM isn’t dying. I believe it’s just getting demoted from “where work happens” to “where data sits.”
The shift to agent-driven work raises multiple questions. Here’s my study on how enterprises are deploying AI locally.
Choosing the Wrong AI Framework: A 3-Month Loss
I've analyzed over 100 SaaS products using AI frameworks this year. Here's the pattern I keep seeing:
Teams grab LangChain or AutoGen because they’re popular, and then the production hits. It is too late to go for creativity and rigid structure when all I suggest is to choose flexibility.
What’s actually happening:
Avoid production teams’ panic at 2 am: Speed-focused frameworks demo beautifully. Then failures start with no way to trace what broke.
Prototyping teams lose control: AI agents chatting creatively solve problems fast. But they traded control for speed without realizing it.
Stop making structured work rigid: When workflows don’t fit neat boxes, they’re stuck rebuilding.
You can’t throw prompts together and hope. The framework you pick today determines if you ship next week or rebuild next quarter.
The AI We Use Today Is the Dumbest
I gave ChatGPT a simple task to compare two documents and tell me what's different. It analyzed and gave me a polished answer, but it was completely wrong.
That’s why ChatGPT forgets instructions mid-conversation. Why does it hallucinate with confidence? Why it’s like hiring a genius who forgets your name every time.
We’re climbing toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which is an AI that actually reasons and adapts.
In SaaS, teams that miss this lesson pay for it quietly at first, through user distrust, churn, and feature abandonment - before the product is effectively demoted from “critical workflow” to “nice-to-have automation.”
The best teams plan for when AI fails, not just when it works.
Read why today's "dumb" AI is actually your advantage
$50/Month Is Cheap Until AI Agents Do It for Free
Are you taking the road where half of your SaaS stack is about to feel overpriced? It’s because AI started a war.
This is the above scene that you are fantasizing, but NOT ME, or any other chap in the same boat!
Take a breath…
Think less “assistant” and focus more on “operator who doesn’t sleep” with me. Hey there, I am Swarnendu De. Subscribe to my newsletter to tap into accelerating growth in building SaaS and AI products every week.