What to do when you're the CEO and also the default catch-all for everything, covering context switching, when to hire a COO or department leaders, faster hiring trials, and training your team to bring answers instead of fires.
The productivity playbook that emerged from a SaaSRise mastermind call: protect short blocks of deep work, become less available on purpose, never answer the same question twice, and pick the one thing that makes everything else easier.
A founder-to-founder look at what actually makes a SaaS sales deck work, from separating discovery decks from demo decks to personalizing at scale with AI, drawn from a recent SaaSRise mastermind conversation.
August 27, 2026
How one founder in our mastermind turned the Hermes AI agent into what he calls a complete life changer, by connecting it to his company's systems, giving it a real browser, delegating entire tasks, and sharing it with his team.
A practical playbook for raising SaaS prices, drawn from founders who have done it: why pricing is your biggest revenue lever, how to test with new customers first, what to do about grandfathering, and how to read your churn data before you move.
What the 2026 SaaS org chart actually looks like: ARR per employee by stage, where AI is (and isn't) delivering real productivity gains, and how to run a headcount reset without breaking the business.
A founder's play-by-play of building a custom AI support agent in about a week, including what to train it on, which model to use, what access to give it, and how to keep improving it after launch.
What to do when you have a real product, real customers, and no marketing budget at all, based on a founder Q&A where the answer wasn't a single tactic but a framework for choosing one.
How founders in a SaaS mastermind actually structure, staff, and scale affiliate programs, from paying nothing until a customer converts to buying your way into a creator's audience.
The SaasRise Mastermind meetings on August 19, 2026 featured discussions among SaaS CEOs and founders on these topics.
A founder built a genuinely great customer case study, then got stuck on how to actually use it. The group's answer touched permission, anonymization, SEO, and a bartering tactic worth stealing for your own next renewal conversation.
Several SaaS founders compared notes on hiring M&A advisors, from fee structures and contract terms to what an advisor actually buys you beyond the deal itself. Here's what came out of that conversation, plus two questions worth asking before you sign with one.
