The rise of superpower tech

These tools create a “bridge of access” between the user’s current abilities and the powers they need to create something. They give people powers in an environment that looks familiar to them so they can safely level-up. Excel was one of the original tools that opened up access. It gave everybody the power of being able to touch, organise and comp... See more

Tools that fit across categories can be especially powerful. For example, Modulz* is a visual component editor that empowers teams to design, develop, document and deploy a design system, without code. It looks and feels like a design software but gives designers the power of code

1.5 years of investing later, we think the rise of no code is a sub-theme in an even larger movement: tools that give knowledge workers superpowers.

There’s an increasing number of tools that automate workflows to give people more leverage. Their value is in time freed up for building, creativity and strategy. They help us maximize our human strengths as human-software collaboration should. They integrate with 100s or 1000s of tools to cover maximum surface area in our day-to-day workflows.

While there are a lot of collaboration tools out there (ex. project management tools), this category of tools allow the actual creating to happen as a team. They keep work “in sync” by tightening feedback and decision making loops. These tools make teams better at what they do, rather than individual workers.

They minimize time-to-creation using (mostly) browser-based software, re-usable blocks and templates.