Rickard Hansson, a seasoned entrepreneur, has launched Gainable, a platform that automatically builds working apps from spreadsheets and combined data sources in minutes, without code, prompts, or manual setup. This is Hansson’s sixth venture, bringing his experience scaling startups to a tool built to remove repetitive data work and give teams instant, functional applications.
Gainable’s engine, Gaia, connects to Google Sheets, Excel, HubSpot, Attio, Folk, Stripe, Airtable, Jira, and more, reading field names, data types, and relationships to generate a tailored app. Connecting to one source is only half of it. Gaia can combine several sources into a single app, reading across them and mapping the relationships between them as though the data lived in one place. No exports, no copy-paste, no reconciling separate systems by hand. From there users can refine the app, publish it, and share it with their team, all in minutes.
The platform addresses a common workplace challenge: teams rely on manual exports, reformatting, and distribution because existing tools like Salesforce or Power BI are built for leadership dashboards, not day-to-day operations. Gainable fills that gap, creating apps shaped around real workflows, not just reports.
“Everyone’s betting the model keeps getting better and carries them along. I think it matters less and less. What lasts is the system you own, not the model you rent,”
says Rickard Hansson
Unlike traditional dashboards that only display data, Gainable apps act on it. Gaia monitors data in real time and drafts actions for stalled deals, overdue accounts, or at-risk SLAs, which users review and approve, reducing delays and keeping work moving. The approach is already working with names like GEICO, Deutsche Telekom, and Macmillan Learning.
Most tools in this space lean on ever-larger frontier AI models to generate each app. Gainable is built the other way around: a deterministic engine does the construction, with the AI kept to the edges.
