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5,000 STARTUPS REPLACED THEIR CRM IN 10 MONTHS. A16Z JUST LED THE $47M SERIES A

Lightfield [5] is the CRM that updates itself. Yesterday, it announced a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Here is why thousands of companies switched to Lightfield: it captures every email, call, and meeting automatically. No manual data entry, ever. Ask "WHICH DEALS HAVE GONE QUIET THIS MONTH?" or "PREP ME FOR MY CALL WITH ACME” and it answers from your actual conversations [6], not fields you never filled in. Teach Lightfield how you sell and watch it go to work for you.

ONE API. EVERY MODEL. THE BEST PRICE, SPEED, AND UPTIME — AUTOMATICALLY

OPENROUTER [5] gives you a unified, OpenAI-compatible API for inference, so you can access hundreds of models across dozens of providers without rebuilding your stack. > SWITCH MODELS EASILY: Keep your existing OpenAI SDK calls and swap models with a single parameter. > ROUTE INTELLIGENTLY: Use AutoRouter to choose models based on price, speed, and quality. > BUILD FOR RELIABILITY: Multi-provider failover, transparent pricing, usage analytics, and fine-grained data policies are built in.

DREAMFORCE STARTS IN 5 DAYS. STREAM IT ALL LIVE, FOR FREE

From accelerating vulnerability detection to creating observability headaches, AI is putting security teams to the test. That's why protecting data, governing AI agents, and building securely at scale are core focuses at Dreamforce. The Security Keynote [5] lays out how to outpace evolving threats and accelerate AI with trust, visibility, and guardrails. Then, the AIforce Keynote [6] [6]will break down how business logic and governance can power intelligent experiences everywhere. Register for free [7] to stream Dreamforce live on Salesforce+.

COSTBENCH: 100 BILLION ROWS. UP TO 83% LOWER READ COSTS.

Fast queries are only part of your analytics bill. Ingesting and preparing fresh data costs money too. CostBench [5] measures ingest, preparation, and reads. We streamed 1 MILLION STOCK-MARKET QUOTES PER SECOND, reaching 100 BILLION ROWS, with dashboard and drill-down queries running throughout. Against traditional cloud data warehouses we tested, ClickHouse delivered: * Up to 82% LOWER INGEST COSTS * Up to 65% LOWER PREPARATION COSTS * Up to 83% LOWER READ COSTS

NICOLAS BOUCHER'S "HOW-TO" USE MORE THAN 10% OF CLAUDE IN FINANCE

Most finance teams experimenting with Claude are only leveraging a fraction of its capabilities [5]. So what is its potential for finance? AI Finance Club's Nicolas Boucher is hosting a free "How-to" Masterclass ($6,000 value) [6] next Thursday, September 17, on the definitive, best Claude for Finance use cases, including: * How to use Claude Cowork as an always-on assistant * How Claude Projects can create a digital twin of yourself * How Claude Skills can produce consistent outputs for finance modeling or slide decks * A crawl, walk, run framework to reduce token consumption while delivering value

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE #1 AI MEETS THE #1 CRM

Meet Salesforce in Claude, your AI CRO: it understands your entire revenue cycle and acts on it, from prospect to closed deal. When you stream the [5]Main Keynote at Dreamforce [5] next week, you'll see how Salesforce and Anthropic are bringing Claude's reasoning together with the trusted data, workflows, permissions, and governance businesses already rely on. Then choose from 400+ expert-led sessions [6] to see the biggest launches and hear the boldest ideas. Register for free [7] to stream it live on Salesforce+, September 15–17.

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