Today's SaaS Pulse
Fresho snaps up Nation Wilcox to dominate UK food‑wholesale software
Fresho, the Australian‑origin order‑management platform, has acquired UK ERP specialist Nation Wilcox, creating the largest software suite for British food wholesalers. The combined offering now supports more than 400 wholesalers and caterers and processes over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in annual GMV.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
Elastic Unveils AI‑Powered Observability Features in Spring 2026 Guide
Elastic released its Spring 2026 guide, introducing AI‑suggested log processing and out‑of‑the‑box alert templates to accelerate issue detection and reduce manual configuration. The announcement was tied to a May 16 webinar aimed at showcasing the new capabilities to developers and operations engineers.
Employers Launches First Workers’ Comp Quoting App in ChatGPT Directory
Employers Holdings (NYSE:EIG) rolled out a workers’ compensation quoting app inside the ChatGPT App Directory, letting small‑business owners obtain instant premium estimates through a conversational interface. The move marks the first known insurance carrier to embed a quoting tool in...
Anthropic Tests How Devs React to Yanking Claude Code From Pro Plan
Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription, marking the change as a test affecting roughly 2% of new prosumer sign‑ups. The pricing page now shows an “X” for Claude Code on the Pro tier, while other site sections...
New Prosumer Test Affects Only 2% of Signups
It seems they're running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected (YET, BUT WILL BE).
Matsui Securities Deploys Broadridge SaaS JASDECPS to Modernize Securities Lending
Matsui Securities announced the adoption of Broadridge Financial Solutions' JASDEC Processing Solution (JASDECPS) on a SaaS platform, aiming to automate securities lending, cut manual steps and meet upcoming JASDEC2025 standards. The move signals a broader shift toward cloud‑based infrastructure in...
Snowflake Boosts AI Control Plane with New Intelligence and Cortex Code Features
Snowflake announced enhancements to Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code, positioning the platform as the control plane for the "agentic enterprise." The upgrades let business users and developers connect more data sources, enterprise apps and AI models, while preserving governance and...
Chillisoft Clinches A/NZ Distribution Deal with LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor has signed specialist cyber‑security distributor Chillisoft to serve Australia and New Zealand, creating a two‑tier distribution model that taps Chillisoft’s reseller, consulting and MSP network. The deal makes Chillisoft the vendor’s first dedicated observability and AI‑driven IT‑operations partner. LogicMonitor also...
Nebius Secures $46 B in AI Cloud Contracts, Accelerating SaaS Expansion
Nebius Group announced a $46 billion backlog of AI cloud contracts, including a $19.4 billion deal with Microsoft and a $27 billion expanded agreement with Meta. The contracts, backed by a $2 billion Nvidia equity investment, could drive the company’s revenue to $3‑$3.4 billion in...
Your AI Feature Is Quietly Destroying Your Gross Margin
SaaS companies that embed AI often treat the new inference and infrastructure expenses as ordinary COGS, which can sharply erode gross margins. While classic SaaS targets 70‑80% margins, the ICONIQ 2026 State of AI survey shows AI‑enabled products anticipate only...
Claude Pro Loses Code Access as Token Costs Rise
Just wow. Tokens are getting more expensive. Claude Code is no longer included in Claude Pro plan. https://claude.com/pricing
LinkedIn’s New Tool Lets You Test the Outputs of Various AI Models
LinkedIn has launched Crosscheck, a new feature for Premium members in the United States that lets users test prompts across leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and others. The tool presents two anonymous model responses for each prompt...
KIME Review 2026: The AI Search Visibility Platform Built for Brands That Want to Win in LLM Search
KIME is a purpose‑built AI search visibility platform that monitors how Shopify brands appear in large‑language‑model responses such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. It provides prompt‑level share‑of‑voice, citation analytics, sentiment scores and an Action Centre that delivers weekly optimization recommendations. Pricing...
Google’s New Deep Research and Deep Research Max Agents Can Search the Web and Your Private Data
Google unveiled two new autonomous research agents—Deep Research and Deep Research Max—built on the Gemini 3.1 Pro model. The agents can combine open‑web searches with private enterprise data via a single API call, generate native charts and infographics, and connect...
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25 world-class AI products, free for a full year I've partnered with Cursor , Google , Notion , Fin , Supabase , and Gumloop to give my paid subscribers a free year of their incredible tools. That's on top of...
Snowflake Names Jonathan Beaulier Chief Revenue Officer as Sales Leadership Shifts
Snowflake announced Jonathan Beaulier as its new Chief Revenue Officer, replacing departing CRO Mike Gannon. The veteran executive will oversee the company’s revenue and go‑to‑market teams as Snowflake accelerates its AI‑centric growth strategy.
Citi's Scott Chronert Warns of a ‘Reverse Perfect Storm’ as Tech Earnings Could Spark Market Rally
Citi’s head of U.S. equity strategy, Scott Chronert, says a “reverse perfect storm” in tech earnings could lift the broader market as lagging software and hyperscaler segments surprise investors. With the S&P 500 near a record $7,147 and the Nasdaq hitting...
Pathway Financial Doubles Down on Human‑First AI in Debt‑Settlement SaaS
Pathway Financial, a boutique debt‑settlement SaaS founded in 2020, is positioning its service model around human‑first AI, rejecting chatbots and scripted interactions. The move comes as U.S. credit‑card debt hits $1.28 trillion and the debt‑settlement market is projected to exceed $10 billion...
Lime Technologies Q1 Profit Rises 8% as SaaS Adoption Fuels Growth
Lime Technologies AB posted a first‑quarter profit of SEK30.37 million ($3.3 million), up 8% year‑over‑year, and revenue of SEK199.86 million ($22 million), a 6.2% increase. The gains reflect stronger adoption of its SaaS platform for B2B customer engagement, underscoring rising enterprise demand for digital...
AWS Bedrock: The Future of Enterprise AI
Amazon Web Services launched Bedrock, a managed platform that lets enterprises run multiple foundation models without handling infrastructure. The service bundles models from Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, Cohere, Stability AI and Mistral, and adds first‑class retrieval‑augmented generation, agent orchestration, and tight...
AI Forces Firms to Rethink Build‑vs‑buy Decisions
One of the more interesting comments from a recent roundtable: A large financial institution is re-evaluating build vs buy across their entire stack because of AI assisted development. Including major SaaS platforms. Are you rethinking this right now? Does AI truly change...
Alkami Unveils Expands GenAI Capabilities with Alkami Code Studio
Alkami Technology introduced Alkami Code Studio, an AI‑powered development assistant now in beta, to help banks and credit unions build, validate, and deploy SDK components faster and more securely. The tool leverages closed‑loop large language models that run inside Alkami’s...
Bolto Secures $12M to Launch AI‑native All‑in‑one HR Platform
Congrats to @boltohq on their $12M Series A! They're building the first AI-native HR platform that brings full-cycle recruiting, payroll, and HRIS into one place. Companies post a job, Bolto's recruiters compete to fill it, and new hires transfer seamlessly...
8 Best Backup Software for SaaS Applications I Recommend
Most IT admins and MSPs only consider SaaS backup after a data loss event, leaving organizations exposed to accidental deletions, compliance gaps, and prolonged recovery times. An analysis of G2‑rated platforms identified eight solutions that address these risks across Microsoft 365,...
Crunchtime Expands AI Capabilities Across Its Restaurant Operations Management Suite
Crunchtime, a leading restaurant‑technology provider, unveiled four AI‑driven features across its operations management suite. The new tools—AI Analyst, Voice‑Based Inventory, Photo Intelligence, and AI Actions—extend the company’s AI Forecasting to real‑time execution, promising faster inventory counts, automated compliance checks, and...
Conductor Launches Enterprise AgentStack
Conductor unveiled AgentStack, a suite of native large‑language‑model applications, developer tools, and turnkey agents designed to automate AI‑driven search optimization at enterprise scale. The platform connects to ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot via Conductor’s MCP API, promising a 90 percent reduction in...
SurveyMonkey Launches Guided Programs
SurveyMonkey unveiled a suite of guided programs designed to streamline feedback collection across multiple business functions. The offering includes more than a dozen pre‑built templates covering employee engagement, customer experience, market research, product feedback, education, and event insights, with the...
Xactly and ServiceNow Launch Agent-to-Agent AI Integration
Xactly and ServiceNow have introduced the Dispute Management AI Agent, the first in a new agentic framework that links Xactly’s revenue platform with ServiceNow’s Now Assist conversational AI. Powered by the Model Context Protocol, the integration enables secure, real‑time coordination to...
Unlock Hidden ARR Growth with Revenue Intelligence
SaaS CFOs, there is so much insight you can take from your MRR data. This is my new Revenue Intelligence feature. Upload your MRR schedule to analyze the health and durability of your ARR. We can find: 1) Retention patterns...
Anthropic Drops Claude Code, Targets $100+ Coding Users
Confirmed that Anthropic - as of now - has removed Claude Code from new Pro signups. This is what the pricing page looks like. Feels like Anthropic has the bet that those doing coding work will be willing and ready to...
Clio Work, Clio’s AI Workspace, Is Now Available To Solo and Smaller Law Firms As A Standalone Product
Clio has released its AI‑driven workspace, Clio Work, as a standalone product, ending the requirement for firms to also subscribe to its practice‑management platform, Clio Manage. The tool, built on a billion‑document legal corpus acquired through the $1 billion vLex purchase,...
X API Pricey, but Still Cheaper than Manual Reading
My X API charges today. Not as cheap as I was hoping for. But it would cost me a lot more to read 11,420 posts to build: https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb https://t.co/KVUisW73fk
Adobe AI Consumption Jumps 45% Quarter‑over‑Quarter
$ADBE shares its AI growth metrics. The 45% increase in generative AI consumption Q/Q signals enterprises are using more Adobe AI, not less, despite the Claude kills everything narrative. 👀 https://t.co/BDWlQPDn8z
Real-Time Analytics: Oldcastle Integrates Infor with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight
Oldcastle APG migrated its Infor Cloud ERP to AWS and built a real‑time analytics platform using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon QuickSight. By leveraging Infor Data Fabric Stream Pipelines, an NLB, RDS Proxy, and API Gateway, the company streams ERP...
Replit CTO Explains Trusted Platform for Vibecoding Risks
Okay so we all now know vibecoding is a massive opportunity AND a massive risk. Now the question is what platform can you trust and why? Replit CTO lays it out ⬇️
Builder Hub Unifies Google Developer Experience with Personalized Learning
10s of millions of people have Google Developer Program profiles. To me, we weren't doing enough to pull the Google dev experience together for them. So my team did something. The Builder Hub has personalized learning, project views, community, more. https://t.co/ZNo1ZtRw31 https://t.co/lcCikXTX8I
Treon Launches AI‑Powered Treon Make on AWS for Prescriptive Maintenance
Treon announced the launch of Treon Make, an AI‑driven prescriptive maintenance solution hosted on AWS, targeting cement, ceramics and other heavy‑industry assets. The fully managed, subscription‑based service combines high‑precision wireless sensors with self‑learning analytics to accelerate fault detection and reduce...
Fast, Customizable Market Surveys with SiteMapCRE
I started using @SiteMapCRE. I am loving how quickly I am able to put together market surveys. Easy to use and to customize for your project. Highly Recommend 🏆
Easily Connect Your Health Data to Any App
watch how easy it is for @flexpa to help connect your health data into any application you want
Intapp and DCM Insights Expand Activator Deal, Deploy Celeste AI Agents for Law‑Firm BD
Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA) and DCM Insights announced an expanded Activator partnership that embeds Intapp Celeste AI agents into DCMi’s research‑driven playbooks. The integration aims to turn new business‑development behaviors into habits for partners at over 100 professional‑services firms, accelerating client...
Long‑running AI Sessions Drain Compute, Causing Capacity Crunch
Why is seemingly every AI service capacity constrained right now? This post about Microsoft/GitHub pausing new Copilot signups makes the astute point that the shift from tab-completion to long running AI sessions consumes a ton more compute. https://t.co/NGxivxBIpT
Adobe Unveils CX Enterprise: End‑to‑End Customer Lifecycle Platform
CX Enterprise, launched at Adobe Summit 2026, is described as a complete end-to-end agentic system to manage the customer lifecycle. https://t.co/C0wQTSVoRK
Paylocity Unveils Elevate Solutions to Scale HR and Payroll Operations
Paylocity announced Elevate Solutions, a suite that pairs its unified HCM platform with dedicated payroll and HR experts to help clients manage growing complexity without adding staff. The offering is now live for the company’s roughly 42,000 payroll and HCM...
Shoppers Prefer Video Answers Over Textual Descriptions
Ben’s right, shoppers don’t read product pages. They scroll, they skim, they bounce. Visual Response is the first real solution I’ve seen. Instead of burying answers in text, eko lets shoppers see a video response to whatever they ask. About dang time....
Coding Isn't the Bottleneck in SaaS Success
Idk, having watched a couple big SaaS businesses being built, coding was not the bottleneck
Mastodon’s Flagship Instance Hit by DDoS Attack, Service Disrupted
Mastodon reported that its flagship mastodon.social instance was hit by a distributed denial‑of‑service attack at around 7 a.m. ET on Monday, forcing the site offline until a countermeasure was deployed at 9:05 a.m. ET. The incident underscores operational vulnerabilities for open‑source, decentralized...
DerivateX Study Finds B2B SaaS Companies Are Invisible to AI-Assisted Buyers
DerivateX’s 2026 AI Visibility Benchmark examined 50 B2B SaaS firms across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, running 1,400 buyer‑intent prompts. The study found an average AI Presence Score of 56.9, with 44% of companies scoring below 50, highlighting a widespread...
Complex Product Derailed PLG, Forcing Sales Team Rebuild
PLG got Product Fruits to $2M ARR. Then it broke. The product was too complex for self-serve. Customers had no idea what it could do. They had to build a sales team from scratch. https://t.co/DInZ7mxOqy
Apryse and Creatio Set New Standard for Document Automation in CRM Platforms
Apryse, a leader in enterprise document processing, announced a strategic partnership with Creatio, the no‑code, AI‑driven CRM platform. The deal embeds Apryse’s full‑stack SDK—covering viewing, editing, conversion, redaction and digital signatures—directly into Creatio workflows. This native integration eliminates the need...
Claude Design Shines, but Rate Limits Ruin Experience
Claude Design is awesome, but man, the unexpected rate limit and not being able to pay for more usage without upgrading is... not great. Really don't love it at all.
GEOGrow.ai Unveils Next-Level AI Visibility Platform at LEADSCON Las Vegas
GEOGrow.ai unveiled its AI Visibility Platform at LEADSCON in Las Vegas, offering brands, marketers and growth experts a suite of tools to secure and grow presence in AI‑driven search. The platform introduces Brand DNA Monitoring, AI Memory Audits, Agentic Content...