{"id":573667,"date":"2026-03-30T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:01:24","slug":"saaspocalypse-sees-software-providers-pivot-to-a-sais-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573667\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaSpocalypse sees software providers pivot to a \u2018SaiS\u2019 model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive of one of Australia\u2019s largest private software companies, SafetyCulture, says new artificial intelligence coding abilities have transformed the way it builds products, as one of the firm\u2019s biggest investors, Blackbird Ventures, conceded start-ups in its portfolio were scrambling to adapt to the AI era.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Anear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/safetyculture-ceo-exits-amid-global-ai-reckoning-20260225-p5o5bg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retook the reins as chief executive<\/a> of SafetyCulture in February amid a global meltdown in software company valuations \u2013 known as the SaaSpocalypse \u2013 caused by investor fears that tools from AI giants such as Anthropic would let everyday people \u201cvibe-code\u201d their own apps.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of one of Australia\u2019s largest private software companies, SafetyCulture, says new artificial intelligence coding abilities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-573667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}