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
Is Healthcare Safe From the SaaS Bloodbath? With Omada CEO Sean Duffy and Stephanie Davis
In this episode of Lifers, host Christina Farr talks with Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy and equities analyst Stephanie Davis about whether the current SaaS market downturn, driven by AI hype and tightening valuations, threatens digital health firms. Duffy explains that Omada operates as a provider of outcomes‑based care, blending software, hardware, and services, which makes its business model fundamentally different from pure‑play SaaS companies. Davis adds that investors are re‑evaluating growth multiples and may shift toward value‑oriented pricing, but the resilient demand for healthcare services and the regulatory moat protect the sector. The trio also discuss how AI can boost margins and patient engagement, yet the human touch remains essential, underscoring the hybrid future of health tech.
Claude's Surge Signals Need to AI‑Proof Careers
Users are quitting ChatGPT for Claude, with a 1,487% increase in sessions in March alone. Here's why that matters for the workplace and how you can AI-proof your career: https://t.co/VTWyD60A5D @Forbes https://t.co/rdCIAxeGu1
Accumulus Technologies Launches the Accumulus Connector, Delivering Live Integration Across Regulatory Systems
Accumulus Technologies launched the Accumulus Connector, extending its platform into customers’ existing pharma and biotech systems for live, bi‑directional regulatory communication. The Connector provides real‑time, one‑click global submissions to more than 70 national regulators, eliminating manual data reconciliation. By integrating...
4 Ways to Automate Rillet
Enterprise resource planning systems often delay financial closes, forcing manual reconciliations that can take weeks. Rillet, an AI‑native accounting platform, was built for a continuous close and offers native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Stripe. By leveraging Zapier’s extensive app...
Oracle Endows Fusion Applications with More AI Autonomy
Oracle unveiled a new generation of Fusion Agentic Applications, adding over 20 AI‑autonomous modules across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX. The agents can reason, decide and act on business goals by leveraging existing transactional data, policies and approval hierarchies, while...
How a Nigerian Developer Built an AI Tool Used by A16z Engineers
Nigerian developer Sampson Ovuoba launched Windframe in July 2021 as a visual UI builder that lets developers design interfaces and generate production‑ready code. After a modest start, the tool integrated generative AI in 2023, turning text prompts into responsive layouts....
Jotform’s Five‑Day Hack Weeks Lift Morale and Spark New Products
Jotform says its five‑day hack weeks have boosted employee morale and produced flagship products such as a revamped Jotform Enterprise and Jotform Cards. The sprint format, now a core part of the company’s culture, is being touted as a practical...
Salesforce Shares Drop Over 26% as AI Threatens Traditional SaaS Model
Salesforce's shares plunged more than 26% after investors voiced doubts that artificial intelligence could erode the core subscription model of SaaS. The sell‑off comes as the company touts double‑digit revenue growth and a booming AI‑driven product line, while CEO Marc...
CrowdStrike Tops $5 Billion ARR, Highlighting Explosive Growth in Security‑as‑a‑Service
CrowdStrike announced fiscal 2026 annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeding $5 billion, with Q4 ARR of $5.2 billion—a 24% year‑over‑year increase. The milestone signals the scaling of subscription‑based cybersecurity amid rising AI‑driven threats.
Cheetah Mobile Inc (CMCM) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Aurora Mobile reported Q4 2025 revenue of RMB 105.2 million, up 13% year‑over‑year and 16% sequentially, driven by strong developer subscription and vertical app growth. The company posted its first full‑year GAAP net profit and recorded a 23% YoY increase in...
How Stripe Radar Helps Prevent Free Trial Abuse
Stripe reports a 6.2‑fold surge in abusive free‑trial sign‑ups from November 2025 to February 2026, driven largely by AI startups that rely on costly compute resources. Its AI‑powered Radar tool now offers a one‑click control that predicts and blocks high‑risk trials with...
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Library to Store Your Personal Files
OpenAI has introduced a new "Library" feature for ChatGPT that lets Plus, Pro and Business users store uploaded files and images in a dedicated cloud location. The library appears automatically in the sidebar and retains files even after the originating...
Dext Launches AI Assist to Automate Everyday Bookkeeping Decisions
UK‑based Dext has introduced Dext AI Assist, an AI agent embedded in its bookkeeping platform that learns individual user preferences to automate nuanced accounting decisions. The tool surfaces transparent, reviewable suggestions, allowing finance teams to retain full control while reducing...
Fizzy SaaS Goes Free, Powered by Basecamp Support
Fuck it, we just made Fizzy completely free. The open source installable version was always free, but the SaaS version was pay. No more. Basecamp and HEY's largess will subsidize Fizzy for all. So go grab your account at https://t.co/pGxSDeGKNK. It's Kanban...
ChatGPT’s Free Ride Is Over — Here’s the Bill
OpenAI announced it will roll out advertisements to free and low‑cost “Go” tier ChatGPT users in the United States. The move follows internal calculations showing each query costs roughly a third of a cent, amounting to about $3 billion in electricity...
18 Best Facilities Management Software Features in 2026
Facilities management software buyers are moving beyond basic feature lists, evaluating platforms on usability, analytics, integration, and vendor partnership. IDC’s SaaS Path Survey gathered feedback from roughly 2,900 organizations, rating vendors across 18 satisfaction metrics that span product capabilities, vendor...
How OpenAI Silently Cancelled My 3-Year Account and Gaslighted Me for 48 Hours
Gabby, CEO of Intentional Visionary Media, recounts how OpenAI abruptly deactivated her three‑year business ChatGPT account without warning, locking her out of extensive client work and research data. She describes a broken UI that displayed a 402 payment‑required error, no...
Lake.com Introduces Tiered Membership Model to Expand Distribution and Revenue Control for Vacation Rental Hosts
Lake.com unveiled two subscription‑based membership tiers—Premium and Portfolio—offering zero‑commission bookings, direct‑booking tools, and enhanced marketing visibility. Hosts can still use the standard 10% commission model, but the new annual plans cost $499 and $3,999 respectively, eliminating fees and adding featured...
AI‑generated Code Makes Testing Essential, Says Momentic
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's @harjtaggar talks to @wuweiweiwu and @itsjeffan, co-founders of @MomenticAI, who just raised a $15M Series A. Momentic is the verification layer for software. The AI-powered testing platform impersonates end users to catch bugs before...
Real-World OpenClaw Uses Needed, Not Just Demos
OpenClaw is cool, but utility is king👑 Who’s actually using it for more than just a demo? Tell me your best real-world use case.
TeamViewer Unveils AI Tia Reporting at Gartner Digital Workplace Summit
TeamViewer introduced Tia Reporting, a conversational AI feature in its Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform, at the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit. The tool translates natural‑language prompts into live dashboards, pulling data from device telemetry, app performance and employee experience signals....
SaaS Success Now Demands Rethinking Core Purpose
No one knows the future of SaaS, if we're being honest. But one thing I'm confident about - most of the playbooks folks relied on aren't enough anymore: * Hire a new CRO * What to look for in a sales rep * Accelerate...
Announcing Xero Integrations in Zoho Flow
Zoho Flow has launched a native integration with Xero, the accounting platform used by over 4.6 million businesses worldwide. The integration enables automated workflows that move data between Xero and hundreds of apps, including CRM, e‑commerce, and help‑desk tools. It supports...
Auto‑apply Branding to Videos with a Single URL
This is the exact problem I deal with every week. For every new video, we're manually swapping fonts, fixing colors, and re-uploading the logo. The fact that you can now just paste your URL and have it apply everywhere is kind of...
Canva Outage on March 23 Briefly Disrupts 200M Users, Service Restored in 25 Minutes
Canva experienced a short-lived outage on March 23, 2026, triggering 503 errors for a subset of its 200 million monthly users. The incident began at 09:44 AEDT and was resolved by 10:09 AEDT, with the company posting status updates and a final resolution...
Littlebird Raises $11M for Its AI-Assisted ‘Recall’ Tool that Reads Your Computer Screen
Littlebird, a startup founded by the creators of Sentieo, has closed an $11 million Series A round led by Lotus Studio. The company’s AI‑assisted “recall” tool continuously reads a user’s screen and stores contextual information as lightweight text rather than screenshots....
From Phoenix to Dayforce: Auditor General Warns of Risks
The Canadian federal government is replacing the troubled Phoenix payroll system with the Dayforce platform, a project now projected to cost more than $3 billion USD. An Auditor General report warns that slow simplification of pay rules has led to costly...
SaaS Finance Shifts to Real-Time Metrics and AI Close
Most SaaS finance teams are still working with delayed metrics… - Closing the books weeks after month-end - Reporting shaky metrics and data - And stitching everything together in spreadsheets That doesn’t scale. Tomorrow, I’m joined by NetSuite to break...
Proudly South African AI Legal Assistant
Murphy’s Law is a South African‑built AI legal assistant trained by local practitioners to deliver jurisdiction‑specific advice. The platform automates compliance workflows, litigation document generation, contract drafting, legal research, and due‑diligence, while offering a chat interface, project vault, and courtroom...
AI-Powered Marketing Runs Your Campaigns While You Sleep
Most brands I work with have the strategy figured out. They just can’t execute fast enough. Someone built a fix for that. It’s called Helena — the OpenClaw for marketing. Give it your URL, and it runs your marketing for you: → Reads your site,...
Integrating AI-Ready Data with Informatica and Snowflake
Informatica and Snowflake partnered in a DBTA webinar to showcase how metadata‑driven governance, data quality and observability can make Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud AI‑ready. The discussion highlighted Informatica’s end‑to‑end data management capabilities, including tag‑based PII masking, automated semantic classification and...
Wethos
Wethos is an all‑in‑one financial operating system built for freelancers, creative studios, and small agencies. Founded by Rachel Renock and Claire Humphreys, the platform goes beyond invoicing by offering a library of thousands of crowdsourced peer‑pricing templates that let users...
Parcelhero Launches Market-Leading Live Tracking and Streamlined Booking Features
Parcelhero, the UK’s leading courier comparison platform, has rolled out the first phase of a major technology upgrade featuring AI‑powered live tracking and what it claims is the industry’s fastest booking interface. The new system automatically flags customs issues, pre‑fills...
Coveo Adds Conversational Product Discovery to Ecommerce Search
Coveo has launched a conversational product discovery add‑on for its Coveo for Commerce platform, embedding natural‑language interaction directly into ecommerce search. The feature lets shoppers describe needs in plain language, refine queries, compare items and build bundles while the system...
WATS
WATS (Waste Administration & Tracking Software) is a climate‑tech SaaS platform that lets commercial real‑estate owners and businesses monitor waste diversion, hauler expenses, and carbon emissions from a single dashboard. By replacing disparate spreadsheets, it delivers real‑time transparency that helps...
Confirm Launches AI Agents Platform for Performance Management at Transform 2026
Confirm announced the full launch of its Unified AI Agents HR Platform at Transform 2026, offering a single system that handles onboarding, performance management, manager coaching, and employee service desk functions. The solution replaces a patchwork of single‑purpose HR AI...
Wurthy
Wurthy is an AI‑powered financial operating system that offers a buy‑now, pay‑later (BNPL) solution tailored for service‑based small and medium‑sized businesses. Founded by serial entrepreneur Rudd Davis, the platform lets firms such as law offices, creative agencies, and medical practices...
Master SaaS Unit Economics for Confident Growth
Mastering SaaS unit economics is the difference between hoping growth happens and knowing it will. In our latest mastermind, we explored why every SaaS founder needs to know: ▪️ CAC, LTV, ARPA, churn, and customer lifespan ▪️ How to calculate...
Ahrefs Site Audit Adds Free Continuous Crawling for Lite+ Plans
Now you can get continuous crawling and near real-time issue reporting in @ahrefs Site Audit. One of the strongest features we ever launched was Always-on Audit and we just included it for free on Lite+ plans. (1 URL/min) With boosts, you can...
Centerbase Launches First Native ndMAX Integration, Connecting Practice Management Data with AI-Powered Document Workflows
Centerbase announced a native integration with NetDocuments’ ndMAX, linking practice‑management matter data directly to AI‑driven document workflows. The integration automatically extracts parties, dates and obligations from saved documents and writes them back into Centerbase for reporting and automation. It also...
Build the Future First, Enable Rapid User Value
Christian (Chris) Bach (CEO @ Netlify )'s framework for becoming the obvious choice in your category: Start with a strong worldview about where the market is going. Then reverse engineer what needs to exist for that future to happen. Then...
Beware: Cloud ERP Vendors May Change Features Unilaterally
Navigating cloud ERP transitions is tough. What's even scarier? Software vendors unilaterally changing functionality long-term. This risk is only starting to emerge. #CloudERP #SaaS https://t.co/8VSJGfUGJo
Nomono Unveils Audio/Video Sync at SXSW to Expand Into a Full-Stack Creator Workflow
Nomono announced Audio/Video Sync within its Studio Cloud platform, letting creators capture professional‑grade microphone audio and automatically align it with video footage. The cloud‑based tool applies AI‑driven sound enhancement, then exports a distribution‑ready video with studio‑quality audio. Targeting the rapidly...
Backfill Shopify Metafields Now for AI Shopping
Shopify quietly laid the groundwork for AI shopping last year with category metafields. A lot of us skipped them. Now with UCP, those fields are how AI and ChatGPT query your catalog. Start backfilling everything now if you haven't. @ericalandyck and...
Consumer Longevity Research Gains Momentum with Ginkgo Cloud Lab
Really excited about the use of @Ginkgo Cloud Lab for consumers to do research in longevity and other consumer apps. These areas are less well-studied than you'd expect as US research funding is largely oriented towards disease. Fun chatting with @LongevityTech about...
Improve Speed, Cost and Quality Through Cloud PLM
Autodesk promotes its cloud‑based PLM solution, Fusion Manage, as a way to eliminate data silos and accelerate product development. The platform provides a single real‑time system of record for BOMs, change management, quality and supplier collaboration. Early adopters report up...
Saturate High‑intent Searches Before Scaling Ad Spend
Her team spent $200/week on ads and learned nothing. Now at 8-figure ARR, Sarah Ahmad says the mistake was not saturating high-intent searches first. You can't optimize what you haven't tested properly. https://t.co/uR81Qj6ubp
GStack: Accelerate Software Projects and Build Faster
I released GStack 2 weeks ago and we're still growing I made it because I was realizing: every software engineering project is changing. How could I accelerate the way I saw @steipete accelerate? GStack is my gift to everyone who wants...
Thrive Expands Its Managed AI Services with Launch of Its Managed AI Workspace
Thrive has launched a Managed AI Workspace that aggregates 58 large‑language models into a single, governed environment, expanding its managed AI services portfolio introduced six months earlier. The offering pairs with a new Managed Microsoft 365 Copilot option that provides a single‑vendor...