Vercel Cut a 10-Person SDR Function to One Person With a Single Lead Agent and Reports 32x ROI

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Jeanne DeWitt Grosser detailed at SaaStr AI 2026 that Vercel's lead agent reduced a 10-person SDR function to one person, delivering what the company measures as 32x ROI. The stated reason it worked: the agent was a process redesign, not an overlay bolted onto the existing SDR workflow. This is the cleanest single-agent-replaces-a-department datapoint published this week, and it lands in the same category (sales development) where Ramp publicly killed its AI SDR program earlier this cycle — the outcome depends on redesign, not on the model.