Emergent

For decades, software categories shaped how businesses operated. CRM. ERP. Inventory. Booking. If your business fit the category, great. If it didn't, you adapted. But now, that era is starting to end. The businesses are building software around the way they already operate. Some are replacing existing tools. Many are creating software that never existed because their workflows are too niche, too specialised, or too unique for any vendor to build. The report explores what 50,000+ deployed apps reveal about this shift, the industries leading it, and what it means for the future of business software. Read the full report: smb-report.emergent.sh

"If you can use ChatGPT, you can vibe code something on Emergent." Tena Pick runs Coro Space, a space for parents to stay close to their kids while building their careers. The off-the-shelf app she'd been using was expensive and never quite fit how the business actually ran. So one afternoon, she got a couple of credits and built a fully functioning app that tracks parent names, kid names, and how often each family shows up that month. This is how she built on Emergent.

Some of the best engineering work happens on systems that aren't broken. Our deployment engine at Emergent ran tens of thousands of apps and served us well through our fastest growth. But it was built for a smaller, simpler Emergent. The bottleneck was never that it failed. It was that everything we wanted to build next was too expensive on top of it. So we rebuilt it. Two ideas carried the new design. Every deploy is now a permanent, traceable record instead of something edited in place. And going live is a safe switch: the new version comes up beside the old one, gets health-checked in isolation, and only takes traffic once it's genuinely healthy. A bad deploy can't touch a running app anymore. Here's what that actually means for the people building on us. Deploys they can trust. Updates that ship without downtime. Rollbacks that take moments, not a rebuild. Systemic issues that surface in minutes instead of through a support queue. None of that shows up in a single growth metric. It shows up in something quieter and more durable: users who trust the platform, stay less frustrated, and keep building here month after month. Reliability is a retention strategy that rarely gets credited as one. And it freed the roadmap. Multi-region, multi-cloud, agentic deployment , the things we couldn't touch before, are all getting shipped on the new foundation. The lesson we keep relearning: get the data model right and half your roadmap turns into consequences instead of projects. As the PM responsible for the platform, that's the kind of bet I'll take every time. Abhinav Gupta https://lnkd.in/dveNunPH

One of our product marketers built the app that ran VibeCon, our 300+ person builder conference. He's never written a line of code. Naman Madhur described what he needed, on Emergent, and it shipped: -Live check-in instead of a manual line -An admin dashboard tracking RSVPs against real attendance -A heat map showing which parts of the venue were actually working This is what Emergent-on-Emergent looks like.

Claude Opus 5 is now live on Emergent. Anthropic's new Opus flagship is designed for the multi-step builds that were too big or too vague to hand off before. Here's what that unlocks for anyone building on Emergent: – It stays coherent across the entire build. – It writes the code, then verifies it: catching bugs, including security issues, with zero false positives. – It does both at a lower cost than the previous flagship. So you get more app per credit. Every Emergent builder gets access, starting now.

Businesses have always adapted to the software available to them. What we're seeing on Emergent right now is the opposite. They're adapting the software to themselves. We looked at over 50,000 live apps operators have built and deployed on Emergent, to understand who's out there building, and what it means for where all of this is headed. For many of them, the software they needed simply didn't exist. Their problem was too specific, their market too small, or their idea too new for any vendor to have built it. So they just ran without one. But for the first time, the person closest to the problem can build the solution themselves. A golf cart dealership in Tampa. A roofing crew in Ohio. A poultry farm tracking eggs by shed and by grade. Across industries, building moved to the operator. People with no coding background and no developer to hire, who a year earlier had no way to build anything at all. That gap between having the idea and being able to build it is closing. The full report is now live: smb-report.emergent.sh

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