Today's SaaS Pulse
Salesforce Launches AgentExchange, a Unified AI Marketplace with $50M Builder Fund
Salesforce has merged its three app and AI stores into a single AgentExchange marketplace, offering over 13,000 ready‑made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The platform features intent‑aware search, one‑click buying, and instant activation within Salesforce or Slack, and includes a $50 million builder fund to encourage partner development.
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By the numbers: Loop raises $95M to scale its supply‑chain AI platform
Litify Unveils ACE, an AI‑Driven Agentic Case Expert to Automate Legal Workflows
Litify introduced Litify ACE, an AI‑powered Agentic Case Expert that autonomously drives legal workflows, reduces administrative burden and speeds case resolution. The platform‑wide feature promises to turn case data into real‑time actions without adding new tools, marking a shift toward predictive, automated legal work.
NotebookLM Transforms Notes Into Polished Webinar Presentations
NotebookLM is incredible. If you haven't used it yet, wow. Highly recommend. I'm blown away by how many different useful applications it has. I just used it to turn my notes into a full on branded presentation for my webinar,...
Skip OpenClaw: 3 Better Alternatives Revealed
I spent 50 hours and $600 on OpenClaw so you don’t have to. Here are 3 reasons to skip it—and what to use instead. https://t.co/MFj5pVF0o6
Proton Launches Encrypted Workspace Suite to Challenge Google and Microsoft
Proton announced Proton Workspace, an end‑to‑end encrypted suite of productivity apps—including Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar and Meet—available today. Pricing starts at $14 per month (annual billing) and the company says it serves over 100,000 enterprise customers, positioning the bundle as...
Introducing Read-Only Mode for Pulumi Neo
Pulumi has added a read‑only mode to its Neo AI‑driven infrastructure assistant, allowing the tool to analyze, preview, and generate pull requests without executing any changes. Users can select this mode when creating a Neo task, capping permissions to read‑only...
Microsoft Details Service Agent Capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft announced the public preview of Service Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot, extending conversational AI to Dynamics 365 Customer Service workers. The preview adds case understanding, summarization, prioritization, knowledge retrieval, data updates, workflow initiation, and cross‑app continuity. Service Agent builds on earlier Copilot for...
Neo Plan Mode: Iterate Before You Execute
Pulumi has launched Plan Mode for its Neo AI infrastructure assistant, creating a dedicated planning workflow before any code is executed. The new mode guides users through discovery, synthesis, refinement, and approval stages, ensuring a clear, documented plan. It is...
Account-Based Marketing Fundamentals with Hat Media
In this debut episode of SaaS Stories, co‑founder Nigel Halton of Hat Media breaks down the fundamentals of account‑based marketing (ABM) for B2B SaaS. He explains how the shift from offline, manual campaigns to data‑rich, online environments makes ABM essential...
OpenAI's Explosive Growth: $122B Funding, 900M Users
OpenAI shared some interesting stats: - closed a new round: $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion. - 900 million weekly active users, and over 50 million subscribers - 15 billion tokens per minute processed on their...
NordLayer Unveils Secure Browser for SMB SaaS Users, Pricing Starts at $8/Month
NordLayer has released a dedicated enterprise browser aimed at small and medium‑size businesses that rely on SaaS applications. The browser bundles data‑loss‑prevention, zero‑trust traffic routing and IP anonymization, with subscription plans beginning at $8 per user per month. The move...
CareCloud Confirms Data Breach After Eight‑Hour EHR Outage, Patient Info Potentially Exposed
CareCloud, a publicly traded healthcare‑technology firm, disclosed a cyberattack that knocked out one of its six electronic health‑record environments for eight hours on March 16, 2026. The breach may have allowed attackers to view or copy patient information, prompting a...
Portkey Open-Sources Its AI Gateway After Processing 2 Trillion Tokens a Day
Portkey has released its unified Portkey Gateway as an open‑source project after the service began processing two trillion tokens per day and handling more than 120 million AI requests. The platform currently supports $180 million of annualized AI spend across roughly 24,000...
Retailers Sign on for Firmly Agentic Commerce Platform
Firmly has launched Firmly Connect, a no‑code platform that lets online retailers plug into AI shopping agents and emerging vertical apps within hours. The solution eliminates months of engineering by abstracting protocols and providing a centralized dashboard for pricing, inventory,...
Treeline Pushes Software-Driven Model for IT Services
Treeline announced a $25 million Series A round to develop a modern IT operating system that automates and standardizes service delivery across IT, security, and compliance. The platform replaces fragmented, ticket‑based workflows with a unified, software‑driven layer, allowing routine tasks to be...
Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation's 'Fact Chaos' Problem
In this episode, Bob Ambroji interviews Daniel Lord Doyle, co‑founder and CEO of Mary Technology, about the company’s new fact‑management system that tackles the “fact chaos” lawyers face when reviewing massive document sets in litigation. Doyle explains how Mary extracts...
Caller ID App Truecaller Hits 500 Million Monthly Users
Swedish caller‑ID platform Truecaller announced it now has 500 million monthly active users, up 50 million since April 2025 and double its base over the past five years. India remains its largest market, contributing over 350 million users, while 150 million users are outside...
CFOs Unlock Expansion via Clean Data and AI
I really suck at software demos, but hopefully that didn't diminish my new Revenue Intelligence feature I demo'd today. I may be able to methodically explain a P&L, but I realized today that I need training on software demos. Can...
The Hundred-Year Cycle of Outsourced Computing
The article argues that today’s cloud is not a novel invention but the latest incarnation of a century‑old outsourcing model that began with IBM’s 1930s service bureaus. Each wave—from 1960s computer utilities to 1990s application service providers—centralized computing, then faced...
Claude Code Users Say They’re Hitting Usage Limits Faster than Normal
Anthropic has confirmed that Claude Code users are exhausting their usage limits far faster than before, with some prompts consuming up to 10% of a monthly quota and simple greetings using 2% of a session. Users on the $100‑per‑month plan...
Price Hike Pushes Loom User to Cancel
oh Loom... honey... I have been considering canceling for a while now, but I think this price jump solidified it for me.
Oracle and NetSuite Bring AI Into Restaurant Operations as Industry Seeks Unified Systems
Oracle and NetSuite unveiled an AI‑driven restaurant operations platform that consolidates financial, inventory, procurement and workforce data into a single cloud environment. By integrating point‑of‑sale inputs from Oracle Simphony, the solution offers a real‑time "single source of truth" for operators...
Google Drive Expands AI Ransomware Detection, File Recovery to More Users
Google has moved its AI‑powered ransomware detection and built‑in file recovery for Drive from beta to general availability. The new model claims to spot 14 times more threats and automatically pauses Drive for desktop syncing when encryption activity is detected. A...
Tracker ATS Integrates with LinkedIn Hiring Assistant
Tracker, an AI‑native ATS for staffing agencies, has launched integration with LinkedIn’s RSC+ to power Connected Projects for Hiring Assistant users. The integration creates a unified candidate pipeline, blends LinkedIn profile data with Tracker resume information for AI‑driven evaluations, and...
Rocketlane Launches Nitro to Automate Professional Services Delivery
Rocketlane introduced Nitro, an AI‑driven execution layer that embeds autonomous agents into its Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform. The new module automates repeatable delivery tasks such as configuration, data migration, testing, and documentation, linking execution directly to resource tracking and...
We Migrated Our Email Infrastructure to KumoMTA. Here's Why It Matters for You.
Postmark has completed a full migration from the proprietary PowerMTA platform to KumoMTA, an open‑source, Rust‑based mail transfer agent. The new engine cuts average queue times by roughly 30‑40% for Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple, while bounce rates stay flat....
On LawNext: Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation’s ‘Fact Chaos’ Problem
Mary Technology introduced an AI‑driven platform that tackles the "fact chaos" that follows e‑discovery. While existing tools can filter millions of documents, Mary automates the extraction, organization, and narrative building of key facts. The solution promises to cut manual review...
Bet365 Partners with TestMu AI to Accelerate Global Release Velocity with Agentic AI Quality Engineering
bet365 has partnered with TestMu AI, the first full‑stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform, to consolidate its software testing across a single interface. The collaboration gives bet365 access to over 3,000 browser/OS combinations and more than 10,000 real iOS and...
Yes, You Can Turn Followers Into Substack Subscribers
Substack has rolled out tools that let creators import social‑media followers directly into their email lists, effectively turning platform fans into paying subscribers. The new "Follow" widget and API integrations pull contact data from X, Instagram and LinkedIn, then prompt...
Zendesk Acquires Forethought
Zendesk announced the acquisition of Forethought, an AI‑agent platform, though financial terms were not disclosed. The deal enables Zendesk to embed self‑improving AI agents across chat, email and voice channels. Customers will soon access the new Forethought AI Agents, which...
Invoca Launches AI Voice Agents
Invoca unveiled an AI Voice Agent that leverages real‑time buyer‑journey data to capture caller intent before a call begins, qualify leads, and route high‑intent prospects to the appropriate sales representative. The company also expanded its AI Messaging Agent, enabling automated...
What Is Contact Management? How Slack CRM Supports It
Contact management consolidates people and company data into a single, searchable hub, turning a simple address book into an actionable business asset. While a full‑scale CRM adds sales pipelines and analytics, many growing teams only need a streamlined system to...
Oracle and NetSuite Deliver New AI&Powered Solution for Restaurant Operations
Oracle and NetSuite unveiled Oracle NetSuite Restaurant Operations, an AI‑enhanced platform that unifies inventory, procurement, scheduling, production, and cash‑management for restaurants. The solution integrates with Oracle Simphony Cloud and other POS systems, delivering real‑time visibility, actionable insights, and scalable workflows....
Align Spend with High‑Intent Funnel to Accelerate Deals
Here’s an exercise worth doing. Open your funnel and map where budget actually goes: - early research - mid-funnel nurture - in-market buyers Then line it up against pipeline this quarter. A lot of investment sits far from a buying...
Autodesk to Add Rhumbix Workforce Platform to Construction Cloud, Rebranding as Autodesk Forma
Autodesk said it will acquire Rhumbix, a construction labor‑management platform, as it rebrands its Construction Cloud offering to Autodesk Forma. The deal, terms undisclosed, is intended to tighten field‑to‑finance data flows for general contractors, specialty firms and heavy‑civil contractors.
Eudia Teams with ServiceNow to Deploy AI‑Driven Legal Workflow Automation
Eudia has partnered with ServiceNow to embed its Enterprise System of Intelligence into ServiceNow Legal Service Delivery and Contract Management Pro, creating AI‑driven, end‑to‑end legal workflows. The move aims to shift corporate legal departments from basic automation to governed, autonomous...
Datadog Launches AI‑Powered Observability Layer with MCP Server
Datadog is turning observability into an AI operating layer $DDOG made MCP Server generally available, pushing live logs, metrics, and traces directly into AI coding agents and developer environments. Datadog is moving closer where AI systems do not just assist engineers,...
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VestaPlus [Sponsor]
VestaPlus’s CheckMate platform cleans MLS listings by detecting and correcting errors before they spread, improving data reliability for agents and lenders. The tool uses rule‑based checks and machine‑learning classifiers to flag anomalies in real time, cutting error‑resolution time by roughly...
AI Era Demands Instant Value, Not Hand‑Held Onboarding
If your onboarding needs a walkthrough, a 14-email drip, and a CSM to deliver value, your product lost before it started. Here’s the simple truth: in the AI era, users won’t tolerate hand-holding. They don’t want training wheels. They want...
Master OpenClaw: Complete Guide From Install to Security
OpenClaw: The complete guide @ClaireVo has just put together the definitive guide to getting started with and mastering OpenClaw. Building on our podcast episode, this post covers everything you need to know, from first install to multi-agent setups, plus the real costs...
AI Coding Agents Driving Unprecedented CTO Adoption
I've been selling software for 15 years now. I've never seen as much "market pull" before as I'm seeing now. For the AI sr software engineer, we've built. CTOs are truly mind blown. Few insights that actually surprise me: - The...
Founders Who Execute See Demo Numbers Double
My final student session last night was at 7pm. The founder showed up and had done ALL of his homework. He had doubled the number of demos that were going onto his calendar since our prior session two weeks before,...
Legacy System Migrates to Google Cloud, Serving 160M Users Faster
There's a decent chance you have an https://t.co/A6q3Fkidky account for digital interactions with the IRS, DMV, and popular ecommerce sites. They moved from legacy architecture to @googlecloud and supports 160 million members with a better/faster stack. https://t.co/pFGhUtVgaQ https://t.co/hljWAZ1rnO
Claude AI Crashes Despite $200 MAX Plan, Disrupting Automation
I’m getting lots of messages from @claudeai today that it can’t continue. I click a button, and it starts back up. Super annoying though, especially on automated workflows. I’m on the $200/month MAX plan. Anyone else experiencing this?
SAP‑Reltio Merger Challenges Non‑SAP MDM Users
When MDM Gets Absorbed: What the SAP-Reltio Deal Means for Customers Who Aren't SAP Shops https://t.co/pLHhNYHSPA
GitHub Integration Live: Manage Repos Directly From Marketing
GitHub integration is live. Connect your account and the agent can manage repos, open issues, review pull requests, and read code. Useful when your marketing work touches the codebase — docs, changelogs, landing page copy in the repo. Next waitlist invite emails going...
AI's Real Gold Lies in Boring Business Tools
Everyone's building AI wrappers around ChatGPT. Nobody's building AI wrappers around the boring stuff that actually makes businesses money — invoices, forms, scheduling, inventory. The boring stuff is where the real opportunity is. Unglamorous software wins.
Marpipe's Gen AI Automates Ad Creation Across All SKUs
Marpipe just collapsed a full creative workflow into minutes. Gen AI is now live inside their product catalog interface. Choose your model, generate enriched ad variants, and it auto-applies to every SKU at once. No exports. No copy-paste. No creative bottleneck.
OpenClaw 3.24 Launches One‑click AI Model Selection
🚨 OpenClaw just dropped its biggest update ever. OpenClaw 3.24 is here. MyClaw AI made it one-click. Pick your model per agent but there's already a version where you don't set up a single thing. Here's everything you need to know 🧵👇 https://t.co/U5JTbeq6J9
Build Pipeline with Intent, Not Just Awareness
Pipeline doesn’t simply come from awareness first. It comes from buyers already looking. Start with: • high-intent search • demo campaigns • comparison pages Then expand upward. Traffic fills the top. Intent fills the pipeline. https://t.co/THTTjOIO9u
Simple Pricing Wins Over All Stakeholders
13 years of SaaS pricing experience in one rule: If every stakeholder can't understand your pricing easily, your sales process will suffer. Not just your ICP. The budget holders too. https://t.co/A4KYyUpf0J