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▶ 13:22 · $MASTRA · Factorial CTO endorses Mastra JS as sweet-spot framework for building AI agents
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From Magic to Harness: Building an AI Agent for a 25-Product SaaS Company

2026-05-06 · 4 company · 4 thematic
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CTO of Factorial, a Catalan HRIS/platform company with 16,000+ clients across 9 markets, $100M+ ARR, and 25+ integrated products covering HR, finance, IT, and talent management.

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“we picked Mastra. It's Mastra JS. That's uh it for us it was extremely sweet spot between super low-level things like Versel AI SDK was like 1 year ago because it was just like hey wrapper around axios or whatever just like to send things…”
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