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
Healthcare Recruiting Platform Lands $14.5M
Carefam, a conversational AI platform for healthcare staffing, emerged from stealth with a $14.5 million Series A led by Pitango HealthTech and backed by Emerge. The solution automates candidate outreach, interview scheduling, and credential verification, escalating only complex decisions to human HR staff. The company claims a 900% growth rate over the past year and already serves hundreds of hospitals, long‑term care facilities, and home‑care providers. The new capital will fund a nationwide rollout across the United States.
Copilot's Market Share Plummets as Rivals Rise
I thought Microsoft’s consumer version of Copilot was a flop but it seems the real concern is the business usage. Only 3.3% of Microsoft 365 customers have upgraded to paid versions of Copilot but that’s not the bad news. Recon Analytics...
Ahrefs Adds Free AI Prompt Tracking to Paid Plans
Now that tracking your AI visibility is becoming table stakes, we decided to include it in @Ahrefs at no extra cost. Every paid plan (except Starter) now includes custom prompt tracking in Brand Radar: - Lite: 150 checks/mo - Standard: 300 checks/mo - Advanced:...
SysAid Announces Partnership with Splashtop to Enhance Secure Remote Support Within Its AI-Native ITSM Platform
SysAid announced a partnership with Splashtop to embed secure remote‑access technology directly into its AI‑native ITSM platform. The integration, driven by SysAid Copilot, lets technicians launch attended or unattended remote sessions from within service‑desk tickets with a single click. AI...
Perplexity Launches AI‑driven Market Research Tool
Perplexity tests Market Research agent for Perplexity Computer "These are the kind of strategic tools that consultants and analysts typically assemble manually using expensive subscription databases." "Perplexity is developing a dedicated Market Research section, which would sit alongside its existing navigation categories...
Automate HR Paperwork, Focus on Your People
Stop digging through the paperwork pit. HR is about people, not forms. Factorial automates the boring stuff so you can focus on your team. 👥 #HRTech #Factorial #PeopleOps #HRAutomation https://t.co/vMM8SckLCh
Astronomer EMEA Momentum Building with 122% ARR Growth
Astronomer announced a 122% year‑over‑year ARR increase in its EMEA business, driven by an 80% rise in customers and a new London headquarters. The region now accounts for nearly 20% of the company’s total revenue, underscoring rapid adoption of its...
Four Decision Gates for Renewing Your LMS
Do you use an #LMS for #training? Eventually, you'll face contract renewal. But what should you do before that? Take a beat. Check my advice as a longtime consultant: "Should You Renew Your LMS? Navigating 4 Decision Gates" ➡️https://t.co/DQ4MXQo5oG #B2B #hrtech #onlinelearning https://t.co/TZZA7y1O34
AbbaDox AI Helps Imaging Centers Save Thousands of Staff Hours
AbbaDox introduced operational AI across its CareFlow platform, automating order intake, patient scheduling, and follow‑up coordination for outpatient imaging centers. Its FaxAI module classifies and extracts data from faxed physician orders, processing them 6.6 times faster than manual methods while...
Zoom Rejuvenates Its Platform and the Company with New Agentic AI Capabilities
Zoom unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools that embed workflow automation into meetings, calls, chat, and contact‑center interactions. The rollout adds no‑code AI agents that act across third‑party platforms such as Salesforce, Slack and ServiceNow, plus AI‑powered Docs, Sheets...
AI Agent Traffic Jumps 1,300% as ChannelEngine Introduces AI Attribute Builder
AI‑driven traffic to retail sites surged 1,300% in the past year, signaling a shift toward agentic commerce. Morgan Stanley forecasts autonomous agents could shape up to $385 billion of U.S. ecommerce spend by 2030. At Shoptalk Spring 2026, ChannelEngine announced its...
Zocks Targets Life Insurers with AI Workflow Automation
Zocks, an AI assistant originally built for financial advisors, is extending its workflow automation platform into the life‑insurance sector. The tool captures data during discovery meetings, auto‑generates notes, applications and fact‑finds, and processes PDFs, scans and photos in under a...
CMA Dithers on Cloud Probe as Microsoft's Meter Runs on Taxpayer Dime
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has repeatedly postponed a ruling on its public‑cloud market investigation, allowing existing Crown Commercial Service contracts with Microsoft to continue unchecked. As a result, public‑sector bodies remain tied to costly, long‑term licences that...
Just Taps Sapiens to Modernise Retirement Operations
UK‑based financial services group Just has chosen Sapiens to power a new end‑to‑end life and pensions platform. The deployment will use Sapiens CoreSuite, DigitalSuite and DataSuite to boost scalability, integration speed and product‑to‑market timelines. The solution targets complex retirement products...
ClippaPay Launches Africa’s First Creator-Powered Content Creation, Clipping Distribution & UGC Affiliate Platform
ClippaPay has launched Africa’s first creator‑powered platform that links brands with influencers through three distinct earning models: UGC creation, video clipping, and performance‑based affiliate marketing. The service lets brands post campaigns, receive creator bids, and pay on approval, while clippers...
Feature Announcement: New Service User UI | Humanitec
Humanitec introduced a Service User page that replaces its legacy API token settings, offering a streamlined way to generate and manage scoped API tokens. The new UI lets admins create non‑human Service Users, assign RBAC roles, set optional expiration dates,...
AgentBay: Your AI Works Nonstop, Remembers Everything
Ever wondered what your AI does when no one’s watching? With AgentBay, it scrolls, clicks, taps… basically living its best digital life. It even remembers everything while you nap Feels like having a tiny robot intern who never complains. #AIautomation #AgentBay #CloudAI https://t.co/77QITwEyTM
Creative Agencies Are Quietly Moving Everything Into Air — Here's Why You Should Too
Creative operations platform Air announced its biggest update yet, rolling out a context layer, AI agents, and a canvas to streamline asset management and on‑brand automation. The platform, already used by over 250,000 users at 3,000 firms including Google and...
RegScale Recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools
RegScale, a continuous controls monitoring platform, has been included in Gartner’s 2026 Market Guide for DevOps Continuous Compliance Automation Tools. The inclusion highlights growing enterprise demand for automated, AI‑driven compliance embedded directly in CI/CD pipelines. Gartner forecasts that by 2028,...
Adactin Launches AI-Powered Knowledge Platform AFIVE
Adactin unveiled AFIVE, an AI‑powered knowledge platform built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry. It uses retrieval‑augmented generation with LangChain to pull data from SharePoint, Google Drive, Azure Blob Storage and Dropbox. The solution offers natural‑language queries, integrates with...
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Lindy Review: What It Is, What You Get, and Who It's for [2026]
Lindy is a text‑first AI work assistant that handles email triage, meeting preparation, and ad‑hoc tasks via iMessage or SMS. It learns a user’s tone over time and offers a human‑in‑the‑loop approval step before sending messages. Pricing starts at $49.99...
Spacera Goes Live on Azure Marketplace
Collaboration start‑up Spacera has launched its Apollo meeting‑room operations platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and joined the Microsoft ISV program. The listing offers three tiers—free Photon, Mission Control at $35 per room per month, and HyperCare Managed at $80—allowing...
Elpida Launches AI-Powered Marketing Compliance Platform for Healthcare Brands
Elpida, an AI‑driven marketing compliance platform for healthcare, launched today to address the growing friction of manual content reviews. The FDA’s new generative‑AI enforcement tool has spiked warning letters by 73%, highlighting the urgency for automated safeguards. Elpida’s "Live Regulatory...
Subscriptions Generate 700× More Revenue than Ads
Adsense is incredibly low amounts of money Photo AI would make $150/month with 156,000 visitors ($1 CPM) Now it makes $110,000/month with subscriptions instead so about 700x more
Daiso to Enhance Demand Forecasting and Store and DC Ordering with RELEX
Daiso Industries has chosen RELEX Solutions to overhaul demand forecasting and automate replenishment across its domestic network of 4,625 stores and more than 20 distribution centers. The AI‑native platform will replace the retailer’s rule‑based, judgment‑driven ordering with data‑driven predictions, aiming...
GStack Relies on Codex for Every Code Review
GStack actually will use Codex for code and plan reviews and I use it 100% of the time now
Unstoppable Flow Helped Me Crush 22 Tasks
Knocked 22 tasks off my hit list this past week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn2yKD
StreetLight’s Closure Tool Aims to Make Impacts
StreetLight Data has introduced Closure Impacts, a new forecasting module within its Traffic Monitor platform, designed to accelerate lane‑closure scenario planning for operations teams. The AI‑driven tool leverages the company’s Route Science engine to predict traffic spillover, identify diversion pressure...
Investor Puts $10K+ Into ServiceNow as AI Hype Fuels SaaS Sell‑off
A prominent tech investor disclosed a $10,000‑plus purchase of ServiceNow stock while the broader SaaS sector slides on AI‑disruption fears. The move hinges on ServiceNow’s $600 million Now Assist ACV, a projected $1 billion by year‑end, and 20%+ revenue growth, positioning it...
SaaS Marketing Fails When Foundations Are Ignored
If anyone understands how broken marketing is inside SaaS companies— it’s me. I’ve seen the same scenario over and over. I’m brought in. Day 1: “We need campaigns.” “We need pipeline.” “We need results in 90 days.” Then you look...
Fort Baker Invests $37 Million in Clearwater Analytics as ARR Soars 77% Amid Take‑Private Talks
Fort Baker Capital Management disclosed a $36.89 million purchase of 1.53 million Clearwater Analytics shares, underscoring confidence in the fintech SaaS firm whose annual recurring revenue jumped 77% to $841 million. The investment arrives as Clearwater negotiates a $24.55‑per‑share take‑private deal, highlighting a...
Integrate Your Apps, Let AI Become Your Operations Partner
The single biggest thing that turned my AI chief of staff into an actual operational partner was connecting the tools I use everyday ↓ Once I did, I stopped logging into each platform and just ask my AI chief of staff...
Vertical AI Beats Generic Tools for Industry Precision
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄. Horizontal AI — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — is built for everyone. Broad, general-purpose, impressive. But it doesn't know your industry,...
The Making Of A $500Mn SaaS Powerhouse: Inside Wingify’s Merger With AB Tasty
Wingify, the maker of Visual Website Optimizer (VWO), merged with French competitor AB Tasty in January 2026, forming a $500 million SaaS powerhouse. The combined entity now reports roughly $120 million in annual revenue and serves about 4,000 customers across the US...
New 5‑Pillar SaaS Metrics Engine Enables AI‑Powered Benchmarking
My 5 Pillar SaaS Metrics framework has been core to helping SaaS & AI founders and students in my Academy. I'm about to release the framework in my next code push to production for my SaaS metrics engine. My framework...
Bilt Buys Sion for $30M and It’s About the Data
Bilt Rewards acquired travel‑commission platform Sion for $30 million, its second major deal after buying receipt‑data firm Banyan. Sion serves over 8,000 travel advisors and processes more than $7 billion in booking revenue, giving Bilt unprecedented access to travel transaction data. While...
SaaS Valuations Plunge, yet Growth Stays Robust
SaaS valuations have reset — but growth remains intact. Significant multiple compression - Median EV/Sales declined from 15–17x to 4–5x. Median subscription SaaS snapshot 👇 • EV/Sales: 4.7x • NTM Growth: 16.5% • 51 public companies • for SaaS companies (including device / fixed-capacity subscriptions and...
Russian Crackdown on Messaging App Fuels Unrest, Protests Suppressed
Russian authorities have imposed new technical curbs on a widely used messaging app, prompting public frustration and a clampdown on protests. The move underscores rising regulatory pressure on SaaS platforms in Russia.
Kiro Token Pricing: Cheap per Token, Costly Overages
This makes no sense: ⁉️ ➡️ Every Kiro plan costs 💲.02 / token. ➡️ So I’m going to barely run out of tokens at the end of the month and overages cost 💲.04 / token. What? ➡️ So to get $.02 per token...
Highlight the Middle Tier to Boost High‑value Deals
Founders: Price anchoring framework that works: 1. Show 3 tiers 2. Make middle tier 2.2x bottom tier 3. Make top tier 1.8x middle tier 4. Add 3 unique features per tier 5. Highlight middle tier Psychology = more deals at higher ACV.
India Orders WhatsApp to Block Device IDs Amid Digital Arrest Scams
The Indian government has instructed WhatsApp to block device IDs used in digital arrest scams, retain user data for 180 days and enhance detection of malicious APKs. The move targets a growing wave of fraud that impersonates law‑enforcement officials, forcing...
Specific, Data‑driven Prompts Outperform Vague Marketing Requests
Bad AI prompt: Give me marketing ideas. Good AI prompt: I run a SaaS for fitness coaches doing $2M/yr. My goal is to double leads in 6 months. Give me 10 strategies used by similar companies. Context = quality.
Real-World Claude Cowork Deployment: Process Revealed
As mentioned, we set up Claude Cowork inside an actual organization recently. Not as a demo or a pilot. As real infrastructure that runs real work. Figured I'd share what the process actually looked like because most AI content skips this...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE/CRM Blogs: What’s New in Customer Service; Managing Release Waves; Configuring AI Models; Sales Prediction
Microsoft Dynamics 365 released its 2026 Release Wave 1, shifting Customer Service feature delivery from an opt‑in early‑access model to a monthly release channel. New capabilities are disabled by default, allowing administrators to enable them selectively via security roles. A Synoptek guide...
Cloud ERPs Trade Flexibility for Convenience
Organizations unknowingly sacrifice control and flexibility for cloud ERPs. While seemingly outdated, custom on-prem systems offered adaptability that modern, off-the-shelf solutions lack. #CloudERP #TechDebt #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/LvE671u0MT
Google Drive's New Scanner: Real-Time Multi-Page Magic
i don't usually get hyped over doc scanners, but Google Drive's new update is insane 🤯 - Multi-page real-time scanning - Duplicate detection - Auto/continuous capture also lightning fast and UX is incredibly cool https://t.co/cF3ZIu9PA7
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management: Parallel Processing; Modernizing Go-Live; D365 F&O Architect; Italian Localization
Microsoft announced a private‑preview feature that enables parallel processing for archive jobs in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, allowing multiple retention tasks to run simultaneously. The new job‑criteria key partitions workloads, dramatically speeding up archival of large transaction volumes across legal...
Ramp's Data Mirrors OpenAI, Anthropic Revenues, Proving Its Value
If your kid’s lemonade stand processes 0.5–1% of US GDP, then yes, that’s a fair analogy for @tryramp. Ramp’s data is useful for the same reason it gets cited at all: it is quite consistent with the revenue figures OpenAI and...
Automate Financial Model Checks to Prevent $2M Mistakes
Your financial model has an error right now. You just haven't found it yet. I know because I've been there. I once spent days building a model for a client. Board meeting. Next 12 months of projections. Felt great about it. Then a...
We Overhyped Valuations, AI May Follow Suit
It's easy to make fun of 2021 valuations. But how in the world did we ever think Asana should be at a 60x revenue multiple... Seems like we will look back similarly at many private AI companies 🤔 https://t.co/VK8CqatqTn