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I started Buildable because I kept watching the wrong companies get called moats and the right ones get called toys. For most of the last decade, the question for a SaaS investor or operator was: is this product good? The question worked because building software was expensive enough that the answer usually told you everything else — distribution, retention, even defensibility. If you could ship it, and people paid, the moat was implicit in the work. That question stopped working sometime in 2024. AI made the surface of most SaaS products legible — the components, the flows, the data model, the integrations — to anyone willing to look. A landing page is no longer a brochure. It is a specification. And a specification, in 2026, is most of a rebuild. So the question I actually wanted answered was different: what survives when the surface is reproduced? Not whether the product is good. Whether the company would still be a company if a competent team rebuilt the visible parts in a weekend. That is the question Buildable tries to answer, one product at a time, with three coordinated scores: how rebuildable the surface is, what survives the rebuild, and how cleanly the rebuild lands in Lovable's architecture specifically. — Lucio Founder, NXLV · Lovable Ambassador