[aurareturn]

I appreciate your reply. From my perspective, that's not a moat Retool can live on.

Claude is extremely good at connecting to databases. I don't see how Retool can be a big company if the moat is "you've already given us your database connection, so you might as well build and host on Retool".

For Claude, all it has to do is install a Postgres client library if your database is Postgres, etc.

In the past, we've tried using Retool before because it was tedious to build the frontend. Our backend developers wanted to build dashboards without having to learn frontend tooling.

Nowadays, our backend developers are flying with Claude Code building the frontend for them. No Retool needed. Retool would just get in the way.

The biggest problem for Retool is that you've always needed developers to build Retool but developers can move way faster building on Claude Code alone than Claude Code + Retool.

The pricing model of Retool is still absolutely crazy. How are you still able to charge per internal user per month? If I have 100 internal users, that's $18k alone. Totally crazy model in 2026.