Workspace-First AI for Brazilian SMBs
Max Peters, CEO of Adapta, on building AI agents for Brazilian SMBs
Adapta is trying to win by turning the integration problem into a product scope problem. Instead of stitching together dozens of outside apps so an AI can read scattered company data, it wants SMBs to build their chats, internal tools, CRMs, client portals, landing pages, and automations inside one workspace. That makes search and agent context easier because the work already lives in the same system, which is a much simpler sell for SMBs than enterprise grade connector sprawl.
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This fits Adapta's customer base. Its buyers are usually owners of service SMBs who want one paid tool for the whole company, not a long IT project. Adapta says actual B2B, multiple people inside one account, is its fastest growing segment, and its product flow is amplify, systematize, then automate.
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The contrast with Glean is the wedge. Glean started with enterprise search across many existing systems, because large companies already run on scattered SaaS with strict permissions and governance. Adapta says search matters, but for SMBs it can arrive later as a feature of the workspace, not the reason to buy it first.
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The closest comparable is Notion's move upmarket. Notion bundled AI, enterprise search, research mode, and connectors into higher tier plans after first becoming a shared place for docs and projects. Adapta is following a similar logic for Brazil's SMB market, but with more emphasis on custom internal apps and local implementation help.
If this works, AI workspaces for SMBs will look less like copilots bolted onto existing software and more like new operating layers where the data, workflows, and agents are created in the same place. That favors products like Adapta that can own daily work first, then add search, retrieval, and deeper automation on top of that base.