How can SaaS leaders use AI to drive growth without making workforce reduction the goal? In this episode, Kristi Perdue speaks with Parth Gargish, EVP of Business Growth at NetSmartz and founder of SaaSNxt, about building effective AI strategies that improve productivity and deliver measurable business results.

Discover how AI agents, workflow automation, data readiness, and human oversight can help SaaS companies improve customer experience, accelerate software delivery, and turn AI investments into business value.

Parth Gargish brings two decades of SaaS and technology experience, sharing practical insights on AI transformation, governance, and building AI-first organizations.

Connect with Parth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parth-gargish-0803b897/

Learn more about NetSmartz: https://www.netsmartz.com/

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AI is changing the SaaS business itself - from what companies build and monetize to what enterprise buyers are willing to trust. Inside the SaaS AI Shift is the executive decision making podcast for leaders responsible for what comes next.

Host Kristi Perdue brings more than 30 years of SaaS experience and credentials as a Certified Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and Certified Information Governance Officer for AI (CIGO/ AI). As founder of AlterBridge Strategies and creator of Power Moves AI™, she gets past the demos and into the decisions reshaping enterprise software.

Each episode examines the consequential choices behind the shift: how AI changes product strategy and the SaaS business model, where anticipated ROI breaks down, when governance must become operational, and what enterprise buyers will require before they trust AI at scale.

Through candid conversations with executives doing the work, the show surfaces the tradeoffs and hard-earned lessons behind those decisions. It is built for SaaS founders, CEOs, product leaders, and executive teams preparing to lead through a fundamental transformation of the SaaS business.

What happens when companies try to move faster with AI before fixing the problems underneath?

In this episode of Inside the SaaS AI Shift, presented by PowerMoves AI, Kristi Perdue sits down with Samuel Crescêncio, Founder of Lean IT 101, to explore AI transformation, agentic AI, software development, Agile, and the future of SaaS.

They discuss why AI cannot fix broken processes, how companies can redesign value streams before automation, and how AI agents are changing software development, engineering teams, governance, and organizational knowledge.

Samuel also shares how AI helped transform a complex software system and produce hundreds of automated tests in hours - work that could once have taken months.

Key topics:

* AI adoption and business transformation
* Agentic AI and AI-powered software development
* The future of Agile
* Value stream optimization
* AI governance and organizational knowledge
* Forward deployed engineering
* The changing SaaS business model

The key takeaway: AI is not the goal. It is a tool. Fix the process first, then use AI to accelerate it.

Guest:
Samuel Crescêncio
Founder, Lean IT 101
Software Engineer and Technical Transformation Leader

Host:
Kristi Perdue
Inside the SaaS AI Shift
PowerMoves AI

Learn more: leanit101.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crescencio/

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AlterBridge Strategies website: https://alterbridgestrategies.com/

#saasaigovernance #aigovernance #aistrategy #saasleadership #aiexecution #ciso #airoi #aiforsaas #executiveleadership #aicompliance #saasgrowth #aitransformation #boardgovernance #ai #saas

AI is changing the SaaS business itself - from what companies build and monetize to what enterprise buyers are willing to trust. Inside the SaaS AI Shift is the executive decision making podcast for leaders responsible for what comes next.

Host Kristi Perdue brings more than 30 years of SaaS experience and credentials as a Certified Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and Certified Information Governance Officer for AI (CIGO/ AI). As founder of AlterBridge Strategies and creator of Power Moves AI™, she gets past the demos and into the decisions reshaping enterprise software.

Each episode examines the consequential choices behind the shift: how AI changes product strategy and the SaaS business model, where anticipated ROI breaks down, when governance must become operational, and what enterprise buyers will require before they trust AI at scale.

Through candid conversations with executives doing the work, the show surfaces the tradeoffs and hard-earned lessons behind those decisions. It is built for SaaS founders, CEOs, product leaders, and executive teams preparing to lead through a fundamental transformation of the SaaS business.

What does it really take for SaaS companies to adopt AI without creating major security, governance, and data risks?

In this episode of PowerMoves AI: Inside the SaaS AI Shift, Kristi Perdue sits down with Greg Clark, Senior Director of Product Management - Enterprise Cybersecurity at OpenText.

With more than 20 years of experience across information governance and cybersecurity, Greg shares what enterprise organizations are really facing as they adopt AI and agentic AI.

They discuss:

* AI governance and enterprise cybersecurity
* Shadow AI and unauthorized AI agents
* Identity and access controls for AI agents
* Data security and over-permissioned agents
* AI adoption, training, and organizational change
* How AI is transforming product management
* AI guardrails, monitoring, and risk management
* Why companies need to understand their data before deploying AI
* How SaaS leaders can build AI features that deliver real value

This conversation goes beyond AI demos to explore the practical challenges of adopting AI responsibly while balancing innovation, security, governance, and business growth.

Connect with Greg Clark on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryclark/

I hope you enjoyed this episode!
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Kristi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristiperdue/
AlterBridge Strategies website: https://alterbridgestrategies.com/
#saasaigovernance #aigovernance #aistrategy #saasleadership #aiexecution #ciso #airoi #aiforsaas #executiveleadership #aicompliance #saasgrowth #aitransformation #boardgovernance #ai #saas

AI is changing the SaaS business itself - from what companies build and monetize to what enterprise buyers are willing to trust. Inside the SaaS AI Shift is the executive decision making podcast for leaders responsible for what comes next.

Host Kristi Perdue brings more than 30 years of SaaS experience and credentials as a Certified Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and Certified Information Governance Officer for AI (CIGO/ AI). As founder of AlterBridge Strategies and creator of Power Moves AI™, she gets past the demos and into the decisions reshaping enterprise software.

Each episode examines the consequential choices behind the shift: how AI changes product strategy and the SaaS business model, where anticipated ROI breaks down, when governance must become operational, and what enterprise buyers will require before they trust AI at scale.

Through candid conversations with executives doing the work, the show surfaces the tradeoffs and hard-earned lessons behind those decisions. It is built for SaaS founders, CEOs, product leaders, and executive teams preparing to lead through a fundamental transformation of the SaaS business.