Dear SaaStr Should I Hire More FDEs or CSMs for Our AI Agent Product?
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News Summary
- In AI B2B, deployment is the new constraint — not retention.
- The real issue most founders miss: They scale sales aggressively, then wonder why churn is brutal.
- The answer is almost always that they starved the implementation team.
- What I’d actually recommend: Don’t choose.
- Sequence it.
- Get one really strong FDE embedded with your top 3-5 customers.
- Document what they do.
- Systematize the training.
- Then hire CSMs to maintain those relationships at scale.
Dear SaaStr Should I Hire More FDEs or CSMs for Our AI Agent Product?That depends entirely on where your bottleneck actually is right now.In AI B2B, deployment is the new constraint not retentio [+1480 chars]
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