Nursa’s VP of Product built a net-new enterprise product in a single weekend using Lovable. The CEO’s response: give all 200+ employees access.
Nursa runs a healthcare staffing marketplace connecting 5,000+ facilities to 500,000+ nurses. The company is now set to retire over 10 SaaS contracts as internal teams build replacements themselves. Here’s what shifted:
- 48-hour prototype — VP of Product Nenad Ivanovic shipped a complete enterprise product over one weekend, no engineering team involved
- Company-wide rollout — all 200+ employees now have Lovable access, from finance to compliance
- 10+ SaaS contracts on the chopping block — teams are replacing vendor tools with internally built apps
The pattern here is worth watching. This isn’t a developer tool story — it’s a procurement story. When non-technical teams can build their own internal tools, the first casualty is the stack of $500/month SaaS subscriptions that solved narrow problems. Finance dashboards, compliance trackers, internal workflows — the kind of software that’s expensive to buy and never quite fits.
Nursa isn’t a tiny startup experimenting. They’re a nationwide platform with real scale in healthcare staffing, a sector where compliance and reliability aren’t optional. The fact that they’re comfortable letting non-engineers build with Lovable across departments says something about where prompt-to-app tools have landed in terms of output quality.
NOTE
The source doesn’t specify which SaaS products Nursa plans to retire or the total cost savings. The 10+ contract number comes directly from Lovable’s case study with Nursa.
The real number: 200+ employees building, not just one VP prototyping. That’s the difference between a weekend hack and an organizational shift in how software gets made.