Samsara Launches No-Code Agent Studio as AI Adoption Grows Sevenfold Since June
The Connected Operations Platform tool lets fleet and field teams build custom chat and voice agents without writing code, drawing on more than 30 trillion annual data points.
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Fleet and physical-operations customers are building custom AI agents without writing code under a new no-code platform from Samsara Inc. (NYSE: IOT), and adoption of those agents has grown sevenfold since June 2026.
Agent Studio, now available to all Samsara customers, lets teams configure chat and voice agents tailored to their own workflows using Samsara’s Connected Operations Platform data, which the company collected across more than 30 trillion data points annually from vehicles covering 99.9% of U.S. roads. Prebuilt agents handle common safety, maintenance and compliance tasks; the custom builder extends that to operation-specific applications without requiring code. A separate product, Samsara MCP, carries live Samsara data into external AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, under each customer’s existing permission model. Samsara Assistant, already in the dashboard, rounds out the three-component lineup.
Customer deployments show where the adoption is landing. Grand Isle Shipyard built an agent that compiles forms, inspection reports and asset data into a monthly report in roughly five minutes per division, a 99% reduction in report generation time that returns about $100,000 a year in specialist capacity to the team. S. Bertram Foods’ agent monitors remaining stops, drive time and shift time, flagging hours-of-service risk three hours before a violation and cutting weekly manual review time by 84%. StreamTech Industrial’s agent flags every trip where a driver has not logged in, and the company cut unassigned drive time by 500 hours in two months. A major food distributor built a Driver Wingman agent that answers new drivers’ questions about parking, personal conveyance rules and fuel stops from the company’s own policy documents. A leading North American passenger transit provider uses an agent to separate driver-caused idle time from regeneration cycles, maintenance holds and weather so managers know which vehicles warrant action.
“We were spending more than six figures a year on reporting and data compilation, work that’s now fully automated,” said Derek Champagne, vice president of corporate security, asset management and housing at Grand Isle Shipyard. “The real benefit isn’t just efficiency; it’s the ability to focus our people on solving bigger problems, driving innovation, and creating value that simply wasn’t possible before.”
Voice has become the dominant interaction mode on the platform: within four weeks of launch, voice agents surpassed chat in interaction volume and have led every week since. Among organizations using voice agents, approximately 75% have increased weekly usage after initial deployment, and more than half have at least doubled it. Tiny Kirby, a driver at Clyde Companies, said start-of-day briefings and two-way audio help tackle drowsiness in the cab and give drivers the support they need in the moment to stay sharp, stay safe and become better drivers.
“AI is quickly adopted when it’s useful, and in physical operations that means an agent has to understand the operation and meet people where the work happens,” said Johan Land, chief product officer at Samsara. “In the back office that might happen through chat. On the road, it happens through a phone call. That is what brings an agent to life in the real world.”
Brendan O’Driscoll, vice president of platform at Samsara, said the company’s ambition is to make AI part of how frontline work gets done, anticipating what needs to happen and coordinating the people, equipment and systems to act.
