“SaaS is going away,” said Dave Park, co-founder and CEO of Narada AI. The company is betting big on a different future for enterprise software, one powered by agentic AI.

The Current State: SaaS Overload

Change is coming “in the not-too-distant future,” Park said on Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast. “The typical knowledge worker today deals with anywhere from 17 to 25 different SaaS tools and portals every day, wasting two and a half hours just manually looking up or updating these systems. We believe in a future where it’ll just be the data, the databases, and AI agents or agentic models that take your request and operate across those silos to get the job done.”

Narada AI’s Vision: Large Action Models

Narada AI, which made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 and is based on UC Berkeley research, has developed large action models: a spin on LLMs that can reason through and complete multi-step tasks across different work tools even when APIs are missing.

Park joined Rebecca Bellan on Equity to talk about the rise of agentic AI, what it actually is, how it differs from traditional automation, and what real-world changes enterprises need to make to deploy it at scale. The timing for the conversation is ripe: YC’s most recent batch included 70+ agentic startups, and major players like Grammarly are building full AI work stacks through partnerships and acquisitions.

Key Topics Covered in the Episode

The full episode delves into critical aspects of the agentic AI revolution and what it means for the future of enterprise software:

• What most people misunderstand about automation and who’s getting caught in the agentic hype.

• How tools like Narada could eventually help solopreneurs and smaller teams, not just the enterprise giants.

• Why the future of software might not be “using” apps at all.

Listen to the Full Episode

Ready to dive deeper into the future of agentic AI? Listen to the complete conversation with Dave Park on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast:

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Jul 9, 2025

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