How 1Mind Hit $1M in 3 Months Selling $100k AI Sales Agents
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
How do you hit $1 million in contracted revenue in three months and achieve 211% net dollar retention in your first year?
Amanda Kahlow is the founder and CEO of 1Mind, an AI platform building go-to-market superhumans that replace SDRs, AEs, and sales engineers.
You'll learn:
- How to sell AI software for $100,000 to $400,000 using flat subscription pricing instead of metered models.
- The unit economics of replacing 89 SDRs and 19 sales engineers with a single custom agent.
- How they maintain 80 to 90 percent SaaS margins while running heavy LLM operations.
- The strategy behind 1Mind's 600 percent year-over-year growth rate.
- Why most enterprise customers purchase a second AI agent within 90 days of going live.
- How 1Mind uses their own AI agent to source 78 percent of their eight-figure pipeline.
- The reality of managing founder dilution and secondary sales after building a $380 million business.
- Why AI agents are expanding past chat interfaces and joining live Zoom calls to run product demos.
Amanda is a three-time entrepreneur who previously founded and served as CEO of 6sense, scaling the company through multiple funding rounds and a $380 million valuation before stepping down.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lFX0n3uYTkw
Connect with Amanda: https://www.1mind.com/
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| 0:00.0 | you share how many months from launch did it take you to break a million bucks of contracted revenue we |
| 0:03.9 | broke a million from when we went out selling within probably three months are you open to sharing a percent like a growth like a growth right over the past 12 months are we talking like 500 percent year over your growth or 100 percent year of your growth or where are you generally 600 percent can i ask you what you're doing today or a range we had a 211 percent nDR i think on your You said they have 45 customers? |
| 0:22.5 | We have over 60 now. |
| 0:23.7 | What is emotionally intelligent to AI mean? Take me past the buzzwords. We are building what we call go-to-market superhuman. So we are replacing all roles across go-to-market. So everything from the obvious that everybody else is doing, pop a funnel, inbound. She's on your website. She gives a pitch, |
| 0:38.1 | gives the demo. She doesn't just pass off to an SDR. She goes all the way for the close. |
| 0:42.1 | She's at individual customers now already paying just 18 months after launch, $400,000. |
| 0:46.4 | Amanda, as we wrap up here, you just, you know, 30 million Series A closed. What was the valuation? |
| 0:52.7 | Hey, folks, my guest today is Amanda Kalo. She's a three-time entrepreneur and the former founder and CEO of Sixth Sense. She's currently the founder and CEO of One Mind, which she launched a transform the go-to-market strategies using emotionally intelligent AI. Amanda, you ready to take us to the top? Let's do it. All right. Okay, what is emotionally to AI mean? I don't know who came up with that. |
| 1:11.6 | That's not typically what we call ourselves, but we are building what we call go-to-market superhuman. So we are replacing all roles across go-to-market. So everything from the obvious that everybody else is doing, oh, here we go, there's our superhuman right there. Hop a funnel, inbound, she's on your website. |
| 1:26.7 | She gives a pitch, gives the demo. |
| 1:28.4 | She doesn't just pass off to an SDR. |
| 1:30.2 | She goes all the way for the close. And so then we also join Zoom calls. So she could be here on the call with us. And she can act as a ride-along sales engineer, solutions engineer to give the demo, answer the tough technical questions. And then we have a lot of PLG companies that are using it for onboarding to get people to go from free trial to paid. And lastly, in customer success. So how do we onboard our customers through the life cycle for more of an enterprise motion? Our goal is not to be just top of funnel. Our goal is to support the full life cycle and give the buyers one experience that's consistent throughout. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, I'm using it here on my screen. I had to mute it because she started talking to me, but you guys get the sense of what's happening here. Amanda, just out of curiosity, what's the tech stack here? I mean, is this like a HeyGen real-time API plus 11 Labs voice on top of it? Or what's the tech stack here powering her? We use a multiple of different technologies. |
| 2:18.2 | Some of it's our own and some of its third-party vendors. We actually have our own pipeline for most of it. We use multiple different face vendors. The face, I believe, will be commoditized at some point. So we did start out building face. And then we kind of said, you know what? We're more about the brain. we want to build the context graph and be the decision logic and the engine behind so that she can give the real live demo so that she can support and create ROI calculators on the fly, et cetera. So yeah, it's a combination of different things and a lot of it's our own. Really interesting. Okay. Let's do a couple of these examples here. HubSpot, VSB, just to be clear, are these are real paying customers, real examples? They are real enterprise paying customers |
| 2:55.1 | with logos that we are allowed to talk about. So these are not experimental budgets. |
| 3:00.6 | Most of these customers are paying the cost of a human plus and have multiple, like HubSpot, |
| 3:06.4 | for example, we are working on on I believe it is their fourth |
| 3:09.0 | superhuman to go live across their journey Fiona the one you're seeing here was the first |
| 3:14.1 | superhuman that we built for them is in the top left corner Fiona is set to talk to their |
| 3:18.6 | SMB business so when somebody asks for a demo they engage with Fiona she gives the demo she |
| 3:23.6 | qualifies. She takes |
| 3:24.9 | them through to close. And they were able to increase their revenue by 25% in their |
| 3:29.0 | SMB small business segment. Interesting. Does Fiona make commissions? No. That's the good thing. |
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