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Where AI-built software goes after the demo

Points of view on deploying, running and governing the apps people build with AI.

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3 ways IT can get ahead of vibe-coded apps

Your business teams are building apps with AI assistants. Here's how to get those apps running somewhere IT can see them.By Adam WhiteInsights

The 11 best Base44 alternatives in 2026, compared

Eleven Base44 alternatives compared for 2026: AI app builders, internal app platforms, a platform IT may already run, a governed runtime and building it yourself, with published pricing and where each fits.By Tray Helix teamInsights

The 12 best platforms to deploy vibe-coded apps in 2026, compared

You have a working AI-built app, or a dozen across the company. Twelve places to run them in production, compared on hosting, published pricing, and who answers for each app once it is live.By Tray Helix teamInsights

The 11 best Power Apps alternatives in 2026, compared

Microsoft Power Apps alternatives for 2026, compared on published pricing, hosting and how apps get built: internal app platforms, AI app builders, and a governed runtime for apps built in Claude Code or Cursor.By Tray Helix teamInsights

The five must-haves of AI governance, and how to score yours

Five controls separate AI governance that works from governance on paper: agents, AI-built apps, data, cost and evidence. Here is what each looks like enforced in software, a scorecard, and a ninety-day plan.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best ToolJet alternatives in 2026, compared

ToolJet alternatives for 2026 compared on published pricing, where each one runs your apps, and which fits when your builders want their AI assistant's output as plain code they own.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Your data policy has to run where the data runs

Employees already paste company data into public AI, and agents now query systems of record on their behalf. A data policy keeps up only when it runs in the pipeline.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Appsmith alternatives in 2026, compared

Appsmith alternatives for 2026, compared on published pricing, hosting and SSO: open-source and commercial internal tool platforms, AI app builders, and a governed runtime for apps built in Claude Code or Cursor.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Regulators and insurers now ask for evidence

The AI rules now in force, and the insurers writing AI cover, want to see what your agents, apps and workflows did. A record written as it happens is the only thing that answers them.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Superblocks alternatives in 2026, compared

Superblocks alternatives for 2026 compared on published pricing, where each one runs your apps, and which fits when your builders already work in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Before you cap AI spend, attribute it

Most organizations see AI cost late, and agents make it harder to predict. Runtime controls are the right destination, and every one of them depends on a step that comes first: knowing whose spend it is.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Retool alternatives in 2026, compared

Retool alternatives for 2026, compared on published pricing, hosting and how apps get built: open-source and per-team platforms, AI app builders, and a governed runtime for apps built in Claude Code or Cursor.By Tray Helix teamInsights

AI governance belongs in software

AI is already running where IT can't see it, and deployment is moving faster than governance teams can write rules. The programs that keep up put their controls into the systems AI runs on.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Replit alternatives in 2026, compared

Eleven Replit alternatives for 2026, compared on published pricing, where each app runs and who controls it, from AI app builders to a governed runtime for apps your teams build in their own AI assistant.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Six decisions to make before the next vibe-coded app ships

Risk tiers, identity, credentials, ownership, promotion and the signals you watch: six decisions that each need an owner, and a ninety-day path to start on them, with or without a product.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Bolt alternatives in 2026, compared

Eleven Bolt alternatives compared for 2026: AI app builders, internal app platforms, a platform IT may already run, a governed runtime and building it yourself, with published pricing and where each fits.By Tray Helix teamInsights

The app and the integration are two sides of the same coin

A customer 360 needs an integration that brings the data together and an app each team can actually open. Either one alone stalls. Together, on one foundation, they ship.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best v0 alternatives in 2026, compared

Eleven v0 alternatives compared for 2026, from AI app builders and internal app platforms to a platform IT may already run and a governed runtime, with published pricing and where each one fits.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Put one gateway in front of every agent-to-tool call

Four MCP and agent incidents in five months, and none needed a novel exploit. Each came down to access left unchecked at the moment of the call. One front door answers all four.By Paul TurnerInsights

The 11 best Lovable alternatives in 2026, compared

Eleven Lovable alternatives compared for 2026: AI app builders, internal app platforms, a platform IT may already run, a governed runtime and building it yourself, with published pricing.By Tray Helix teamInsights

Why the customer 360 keeps failing

Growth now comes from the customers you already have, and four teams need four different answers about each of them. One shared screen serves none of them, which is why the 360 keeps dying.By Paul TurnerInsights

Builders should never hold a credential

The credential decision constrains every other control on an AI-built app. Design for the path that does not exist: no secret in the app, the assistant or the builder's hands.By Paul TurnerInsights

Surface, control, foundation: the three layers every AI-built app passes through

A vendor-neutral model for running what people build with AI: where they build, where IT governs, and what everything runs on. Plus the layer most organizations have not built.By Paul TurnerInsights

Why policy cannot govern vibe-coded apps

Building has left engineering, and every app it produces still needs infrastructure, credentials, identity and an owner. An acceptable-use policy supplies none of them. An architecture can.By Paul TurnerInsights

The deployment gap: what happens to the software your people build with AI

AI assistants turned your workforce into a thousand developers you didn't hire. Most of what they build never reaches production, and what does often ships without an owner.By Paul Turner

Helix is the governed runtime for AI-built apps

Deploy what your teams build, put SSO in front of it, connect it with managed credentials, and give every app a named owner.

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