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US Startup AI Survey 2026

Startup AI survey 2026 — what US founders build first: support agents, sales automation, or internal RAG. Budget and stack preferences.

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Custom AI agents · US timezone overlap · Houston, TX

Top 5 First AI Features Startups Ship

  1. Customer support deflection (38%) — RAG over docs + tickets
  2. Lead qualification (27%) — CRM sync + meeting booking
  3. Internal knowledge search (18%) — Notion/Confluence RAG
  4. Sales outreach drafts (11%) — human-approved email sequences
  5. Ops automation (6%) — invoice parsing, scheduling

Stack Preferences

Models: Claude 3.5+ and GPT-4o tied at ~45% each for greenfield builds; Azure OpenAI leads enterprise pilots.

Frameworks: LangChain/LangGraph 52%, custom Python 31%, Voiceflow/other low-code 17%.

Written by GKAI Studio Engineering

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