Samsara has released Agent Studio, a platform available to all its customers for building chat and voice AI agents on fleet data without writing code. The company says agent adoption has risen sevenfold since June and cites customer results in hours-of-service monitoring, reporting and driver support.
Continue reading: Samsara launches Agent Studio for no-code custom fleet AI agentsAs construction fleets connect more machines, the next step for telematics is a real-time view of jobsite operations rather than dots on a map. Mixed-fleet platforms and AI could turn that view into decisions about idle equipment, maintenance and rentals.
Samsara and Motive are both reporting 30% annual recurring revenue growth, but their investments tell a bigger story. Despite the industry's focus on AI and software, significant spending is still going toward hardware, supply chains, and the people needed to deploy and support connected fleet technology.
Samsara announced on Sept. 22 a Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets authorized users query live Samsara account data from third-party AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. It launches with more than 40 read-only tools and is free for now, with future pricing based on monthly usage.
Samsara's new Compounding Risk Report finds that the 10% of drivers its Risk Model ranks as highest risk accounted for 47% of crashes, and the top 30% accounted for more than three-fourths. The company says the findings can help fleets focus limited coaching time, and it is pairing the model with a new Coaching Priority feature.
