Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
Latent Space Richard MacManus
Lovable says apps are turning into building blocks for AI agents. That could mean fewer tabs for people, and more software used by software.
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Lovable made its name as a tool for building apps with AI. Now it’s pushing toward something a bit stranger: apps that people may open less often, because agents will use them directly.
In a recent blog post, the company described a “digital brain for your team connecting your daily tools.” CTO Fabian Hedin put it more plainly in an interview with Latent Space: one entry point for all the work you do. The idea is to turn parts of an app into “capabilities” that an agent can call without a human first opening the product.
Technically, that means Lovable can expose selected functions from a published app through a hosted MCP server. The same app ends up with two faces: a normal human interface and an agent-facing one that works through ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible clients. Lovable still wants to be the place where apps get built, but it also wants to be the place where those apps become useful to agents.
The speed of that shift is the interesting part. Lovable started out as GPT Engineer, an open source coding tool launched in 2023. It became a commercial product in November 2024 and was rebranded the next month. Since then, the company says people have moved from prototypes to real production software on the platform, including internal tools like CRMs, admin panels, and customer-support consoles.
The growth numbers are hard to ignore. A tweet from Deedy Das, a partner at lead investor Menlo Ventures, said Lovable had passed a $500 million annualized revenue run rate, with more than 60 million projects created and over 900 million monthly visits to Lovable-built apps. Menlo also led Lovable’s $400 million Series C this month, alongside the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT, valuing the company at $13.3 billion.
What Lovable is really selling now is not just app building, but a company brain. Hedin says the goal is an interface with enough context about you, your company, and the world around you to handle general tasks and company-specific ones. He also says the platform should connect capabilities through one agent, not force teams to build a different agent for every job. The hard part, he says, is making those pieces reliable and properly connected.
Security is the obvious trap door. Lovable says its connectors separate the external system connection from the application code, with credentials handled server-side in encrypted form and never exposed to the generated app. Hedin says the platform has to manage a permissioning graph so a company brain doesn’t accidentally wander into the wrong Slack messages.
The end result is a pretty clear bet on where SaaS is going: fewer tabs, more AI in the middle, and a lot more software built to be used by something that isn’t human.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right bet, and also the mildly annoying one. SaaS vendors who still think the future is “more tabs, but prettier” are selling rotary phones in a smartphone era. The real moat now is being the shovel that agents can actually use, not the shiny app users keep forgetting to open.
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