Dear SaaStr Should I Hire More FDEs or CSMs for Our AI Agent Product?

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  • 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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