I help organisations, like the UK National Health Service (NHS), to allow non-tech people to collaborate among themselves and with professionals to solve compelling problems that this bottom-up approach to digital innovation serves. This is the latest vibe in AI: Vibe Coding¹.

Citizen Developers, empowered.

In this Journal post I am focused on Insourcing digital innovation, enabling Citizen Developers to deliver next generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps powered by Salesforce. The specific use case here is health and social care and a solution called Social Care Cloud.

Read my Journal post Simplify to learn more about how Experimentation with Storyboards and Models enable Citizen Developer innovation. It is this bottom-up approach that makes Insource of information technology a powerful reality. This is based on two things:

• Citizen Developers Empowered. Citizens are motivated to fix the problems that directly affect their lives. In the Social Care Cloud use case this is Discharge Nurses, Social Carers, Patients and Families - not NHS Trust executives - who have the greatest motivation to fix the bed-blocking problem that, in turn, causes delays to time-critical patient operations.
• No-Code First. Of course, if Citizen Developers are empowered to create SaaS apps that solve compelling problems, then executive managements and IT professionals can create a safe environment for Insourcing to thrive. This is No-Code First: scalable and secure.

Vibe Coding, step-by-step.

Vibe Coding is a term first used by industry analyst Andrej Karparthy¹ to describe how you can generate software code by using AI to describe apps using natural language prompts, where the term 'vibe' comes from "fully giving into the vibes, and forget that the code even exists".

I see Vibe Coding as a set of new but reliable technologies that accelerate the design and development of SaaS apps built on Salesforce Lightning Platform⁵.

Vibe Coding, in the context of Salesforce, is where technologies such as Abacus.ai² become the AI Agents to guide Citizen Developers to accomplish tasks that were previously only the domain of tech experts.

Abacus.ai DeepAgent provides:

Conversational Code Generation. Users describe what they want in plain English, and DeepAgent generates Salesforce code (Apex, LWC, Flows) or configuration steps.

Real-Time Collaboration. Multiple users can interact with DeepAgent, review code, and iterate on solutions together.

Context Awareness. DeepAgent understands Salesforce metadata (Objects, Fields, Relationships) and tailors its responses to your Salesforce Org Data Schema.

Design Thinking³ and Value Engineering⁴ underpins my work at Being Guided. Design Thinking maximises stakeholder engagement by generating empathy and trust. Value Engineering builds robust business cases using ROI Models to defend value and quantify costs.

Faster. No-Code development of Salesforce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps can be reduced in time and costs as days and hours versus months and weeks, if Citizen Developers are close to the problem being solved.

Simpler. At Being Guided I apply Fierce Reduction: the practice of simplifying all business processes, tasks and information systems by removing redundant or non-essential elements before considering next generation app development with Citizen Developers.

Cheaper. Vibe Coding represents significant cost savings when Citizen Developers take over 90% or more of the work traditionally delivered by IT services firms operating with a billable people hours business model.

Now let's look at extending Salesforce with a new AI player in Vibe Coding: Lovable.dev^6,7.

Salesforce and Lovable.

The integration between Salesforce Lightning Platform and Lovable.dev^6,7 can establishe a complementary architecture where Salesforce serves as the authoritative System of Record (SoR) whilst Lovable.dev functions as an agile layer for rapid application prototyping and deployment.

Lovable.dev flexible integration architecture supports both native and external APIs, enabling seamless connectivity with Salesforce through REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and Webhook integrations (Lovable Documentation, 2025^6.7).

Salesforce Lightning Platform unified metadata architecture provides the foundational infrastructure for this integration, offering enterprise-grade APIs that can be consumed by Lovable.dev applications through secure authentication mechanisms.

At Being Guided I have created The Integration Platform to enable real-time data synchronisation between Lovable-built apps and core Salesforce systems, ensuring data consistency across the enterprise ecosystem (Salesforce, 2025⁵). This architectural approach allows Citizen Developers to leverage Lovable.dev natural language programming capabilities - whilst Salesforce remains as the single source of truth for customer data, transactions, and regulatory compliance records.

Strategic Benefits for Financial Services and Healthcare.

Financial services and healthcare organisations face unique challenges in balancing innovation velocity with regulatory compliance and data security requirements. The Lovable.dev-Salesforce integration addresses these challenges by enabling rapid development of customer-facing applications and internal tools whilst ensuring that all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and sensitive data remains within Salesforce's secure, compliant environment.

Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, built on the Lightning Platform, provides industry-specific data models and compliance frameworks that support regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR (Salesforce Financial Services, 2025⁵).

Healthcare organisations, such as my customer the UK NHS, benefit from this integration through accelerated development of patient engagement apps, provider portals, and administrative tools that can be rapidly prototyped using Lovable.dev Vibe Coding approach, whilst maintaining Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA) compliance through the Salesforce Shield security suite.

Financial services firms can similarly leverage this architecture to develop innovative customer experience applications, such as personalised financial planning tools or real-time transaction monitoring dashboards, with development cycles reduced from months to weeks through Lovable.dev's AI-assisted coding capabilities.

Data Security and PII Residency Framework.

The integration between Salesforce and Lovable maintains strict data residency requirements by ensuring that all PII and sensitive business data remains within Salesforce's secure infrastructure while allowing Lovable.dev applications to access and manipulate this data through controlled API interfaces.

Salesforce Shield provides enterprise-grade security controls including field-level encryption, comprehensive audit trails, and real-time event monitoring that tracks over 50 event types including API calls, data exports, and user access patterns (Salesforce Shield, 2025⁵).

My Being Guided Field Audit Trail component maintains indefinite retention of data change histories in Salesforce, providing forensic capabilities essential for regulatory compliance and internal governance.

Transaction Security Policies can be configured to automatically block risky actions involving sensitive data, such as unauthorised bulk data exports or suspicious API access patterns, ensuring that Lovable.dev apps operate within defined security boundaries..

Rapid SaaS Development and Time-to-Market Advantages.

The combination of Lovable.dev Vibe Coding capabilities with Salesforce Lightning Platform enterprise infrastructure enables organisations to achieve significant reductions in application development time and costs. Salesforce customers report 27% faster process implementation and 25% reduction in IT costs when leveraging the platform's No-Code and AI-powered development tools (Salesforce Platform, 2025⁵).

Lovable.dev amplifies these benefits by enabling non-technical business users as Citizen Developers to participate directly in application development through its natural language programming, where app requirements are described in plain English and automatically translated into functional code.

This democratization of development capabilities allows organisations to rapidly prototype and deploy customer-facing applications, internal productivity tools, together with data visualisation dashboards, without extensive technical resources.

The integration between Salesforce and Lovable supports full-stack app development, including database design, user authentication, real-time data processing, and payment integration, all while maintaining connection to Salesforce as the authoritative data source.

Organisations can iterate on application features in real-time, responding to changing business requirements and market conditions with unprecedented agility while ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance standards are maintained throughout the development lifecycle.

References

1. Karpathy, A. [@karpathy]. (2025, February 2). There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that code even exists. X. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1753472166197080428
2. Abacus.ai. (2025). Abacus AI platform overview.
   https://abacus.ai/platform
3. The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. (2004) Stanford d.school. https://dschool.stanford.edu/about
4. Miles, L.D. (1947). The Lawrence D. Miles Value Engineering Reference Center Collection.
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5. Stutz, A., & Kolb, R. (2021). Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture (3rd ed.). Packt Publishing.
   [https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Salesforce-Lightning-Platform-Enterprise-Architecture-Third-Edition](https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Salesforce-Lightning-Platform-Enterprise-Architecture-Third-Edition)
6. Forbes. (2025, July 17). AI ‘vibe coder’ Lovable is Sweden’s latest unicorn. Forbes.
   https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/07/23/vibe-coding-turned-this-swedish-ai-unicorn-into-the-fastest-growing-software-startup-ever/
7. Lovable Documentation. (2025). Integrations introduction. Retrieved from Lovable.dev. https://docs.lovable.dev/integrations/introduction