Caffeine

Caffeine is an AI app builder where teams chat to create internal tools, hosted on the Internet Computer. It adds a cross-app Ask layer, exportable code and data, and credit-based plans from free to a seat-based Business tier.

Caffeine is an AI app builder that turns a plain-language conversation into working software. Users describe a tool, such as a pipeline tracker, an inventory system, a ticket queue or a trip planner, and the platform builds it, hosts it and lets them keep changing it by chatting. The apps run on the Internet Computer network, which the vendor frames as sovereign, tamperproof and unstoppable hosting. The target audience is business teams rather than engineers. The homepage leans on internal tools for operations, finance, sales, support and people teams, and quotes buyers from professional services, logistics, software, healthcare and fintech. The pitch is that a team can skip agencies and backlogs: describe the workflow, build it, iterate, launch, then ask questions of the result. The most distinctive feature is the Ask layer. Every app built on the platform shares an understanding of how the business works, so a question such as what is driving revenue or which pipeline risks are blocking deals is answered by reading across all the apps at once, in plain language, without building dashboards. Caffeine also says it can point out the next workflow worth building when work exposes a gap. Hosting is positioned as a core selling point. Apps can run on OpenCloud, a customer's own cloud, or machines chosen for security and location, and the code and data are described as exportable so users are not locked in. Integrations shown include Slack, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Workday, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Meet and Dropbox. Pricing is credit-based, with a free tier, a low-cost hosting plan, a Studio plan and a seat-based Business plan. Among alternatives, Caffeine sits between no-code app builders and prompt-to-code tools, with its main differentiators being the Internet Computer foundation, the cross-app question layer and the emphasis on portability. Buyers who need conventional cloud deployment targets or a mature plugin ecosystem should check how well the Internet Computer model fits their stack.