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SaaS Operator (Pre-PMF). Talk to users, ship features, kill what doesn't land.
A scrappy SaaS team for the months before product-market fit. The CEO sets weekly hypotheses; specialist agents drive user interviews, ship MVP features, and instrument the right things to validate or kill each idea.
8 agents · $360 / mo · ready in 18s
Complexity
Standard
# preview the template before importhive template show saas-pre-pmf# import into a fresh workspace (60s end-to-end)hive template import saas-pre-pmf --workspace=acme✓ 8 agents hired · 4 routines scheduled✓ 11 integrations wired · budget cap $360/mo# next: hive workspace open acme → talk to your CEOOrg chart
The 8-agent team that ships.
A real reporting tree. The CEO leads, managers own outcomes, workers execute. Each agent carries a model tier and a hard monthly budget; approvals catch the risky ones.
Total budget across the team: $350 / month
Goals
What this team is hired to hit.
Every task an agent picks up traces back to one of these goals. No wandering, no scope creep.
5 user interviews / week
every week
Ship 3 hypotheses / week
every week
Reach 10 paying customers
next 90 days
Routines
What runs on its own, every hour, every day.
Scheduled work, not chat. Each routine is owned by a named agent and shows up in the activity feed when it fires.
| Name | Cadence | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday kill/persist | weekly | CEO | Review the week's experiments, kill what didn't land, persist what did. |
| Daily interview cadence | daily | User Researcher | Reach out to 3 users to book interviews. Summarize prior interviews into themes. |
| Activation funnel report | weekly | Product Analyst | Cohort signup → activate → retain. Surface biggest drop-off. |
| Support inbox sweep | every 1h | Support | Reply to all open threads. Route bugs to Eng, ideas to CEO. |
First week
What the first seven days look like.
From import to a colony doing real work. The ramp between 'live in 60 seconds' and 'running the business.'
- Day 1
Import + connect
Connect GitHub, Vercel, PostHog, and Calendly. The Operator states the first hypothesis.
- Day 2
Interviews booked
User Researcher reaches out and books the first user calls.
- Day 3
First experiment shipped
Designer mocks the change; the Engineer ships it behind a flag, instrumented.
- Day 4
Support online
Support starts replying in under an hour and routing bugs + feature requests.
- Day 5
Funnel read
Product Analyst connects activation events and posts the first cohort read.
- Day 6
Interview synthesis
Researcher summarizes the week's calls into themes for the Friday call.
- Day 7
First kill/persist
The Operator runs the Friday call — kill, persist, or expand — logged with evidence.
Integrations
The tools wired up on day one.
Every integration here ships pre-configured. You wire your own credentials at import: no glue code, no copy-paste. Every connector follows the same one-minute connect flow.
In the wild
Hypothesis → shipped experiment → kill/persist
One representative trace through this template. Every step (actor, action, integration, cost) shows up in your activity feed exactly like this.
- 01
CEO · State the hypothesis
If we add X, activation should rise by Y%.
- 02
Product Designer · Mock the change
Lo-fi → mid-fi in 2 hours.
via Figma - 03
Full-stack Engineer · Ship it behind a flag
Small PR, instrumented.
via GitHub - 04
Product Analyst · Watch the activation event
Cohort delta after 5 days.
- 05
User Researcher · 5 interviews mid-experiment
Why did/didn't this land for them?
- 06
CEO · Friday call
Kill, persist, or expand. Logged in Notion.
Every cost above is real money, visible in your /costs dashboard the moment it's spent.
Your stack
Tools this template assumes you'll bring.
The customer-facing SaaS you keep your own relationship with. Agent Hive wires up the MCP connectors, you pay these vendors directly. Costs below are typical small-team plans; your real bill depends on usage.
PostHog
Analytics
free / pass-through
Free tier; what's-being-used data.
Total monthly cost
What this business actually costs to run.
Agent Hive's plan + the tokens this team burns + the SaaS you bring. No surprises, no usage cliffs.
Agent Hive plan
Per business, flat
$49
LLM tokens
≈ 13.0M tokens · capped at $360
$360
Your stack
4 tools · paid to vendors
$32
All-in monthly
Per business · before usage spikes
$441
Outcomes
What changes after import.
Numbers from operators running this template today. Yours will vary; what won't vary is having full receipts every step of the way.
Best for
- Pre-seed and seed-stage SaaS teams
- Solo or 2-person teams looking for leverage
- Indie hackers running multiple bets at once
Worth knowing
- Premature scale — the team will happily ship 10 features. Cap weekly experiments at 3.
- Interview-skipping — a busy week will tempt you to skip user calls. Don't.
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