Tools build prototypes. We build businesses.
Lovable, Make, and Base44 are great at what they do — fast prototypes, workflow glue, and AI-generated tools. What they aren't is a real team that ships your production app, deploys your AI workforce, and answers the phone when something breaks. Here's when each one wins.
At a glance
Constant Concepts
UsCustom AI workforce · production-grade builds
Production-grade builds with a real team. AI agents trained on your brand voice, deployed across web, voice, SMS, and email — and run by humans who answer the phone.
Pricing
$1.5K–$5K/mo · setup $10K–$30K · 4–8 wk
Lovable
AI prototype builder
You describe a frontend, the AI writes React. Fast for investor demos and MVP screenshots. Quality drops on production complexity; backend logic stays shallow.
Pricing
$25–$50/mo · credit-based · DIY
Make
Workflow automation (Integromat)
Visual builder for connecting 3,000+ SaaS apps via webhooks and triggers. Strong for stack glue, not for building products. Steep learning curve, credit-based ops.
Pricing
$9–enterprise · credit-based · DIY
Base44
AI app builder + Superagent
Generates internal tools and small SaaS in 10 minutes from a prompt. Free tier exists; Pro caps around $200/mo. Design ceiling and credit burn on heavy AI usage.
Pricing
$0–$200/mo · credit-based · DIY
Capability matrix
Custom AI workforce · production-grade builds
AI prototype builder
Workflow automation (Integromat)
AI app builder + Superagent
Production readiness
Ships to production for paying users
Not a clickable demo — an app real customers transact on.
Owned codebase, no platform lock-in
SOC 2 / HIPAA-aligned deployment
AI workforce
Trained AI agents (sales, support, lead-gen, ops)
Live agents that answer for you — not prompts you write.
Multi-channel (voice, SMS, email, chat, CRM)
Brand-voice training & ongoing tuning
Human partnership
Dedicated team, named contacts
Live human handoff from AI
Cost predictability
Flat monthly fee, no credit burn
The #1 surprise on credit-based platforms.
Includes deployment + hosting
Integrations & data
CRM + billing + booking + analytics
Design & brand
Brand-fidelity design system
Time to launch
Speed to production
Yes · Partial · No · N/A Not applicable
The 12-month cost reality
Sticker price isn't cost. Credit-based platforms charge for every iteration, regenerate, and complex request. DIY platforms shift the work to your team — every hour spent prompting is a real labor cost. Here's the honest math at three buyer scales.
You need a clickable prototype to show investors. No paying customers yet.
- Constant ConceptsOut of scope
We don't take MVP-only engagements
- Lovable$300
$300–$900 with credit overruns on iterations
- Make$108
$108–$240 once you start glueing real APIs
- Base44$0–$240
$240–$600 with paid tier when free credits run out
You're a real business. An AI sales agent + a custom dashboard + 3 integrations need to ship and stay shipped.
- Constant Concepts$28K–$90K
$28K–$90K — flat MRR + setup, fully delivered
- Lovable$600
$600 platform + ~120 hrs internal dev + ongoing patching
- Make$3.5K
$3.5K platform + 200+ hrs scenario-author time
- Base44$2.4K
$2.4K platform + design ceiling forces a rebuild later
Call-center scale, SOC 2 / HIPAA, multi-tenant, dedicated team.
- Constant Concepts$110K–$450K
Custom — bespoke build, dedicated Fractional AI Officer
- LovableOut of fit
Backend depth + compliance gap
- Make$50K+
Possible at enterprise tier; needs a platform team
- Base44Out of fit
Compliance + scale gap
Pick the right tool for the job
Use Constant Concepts when…
Us- Your business is real, your customers are paying, the AI has to actually work on day 1
- You want a workforce of trained personas (sales, support, ops) — not a chat widget
- You need someone to call when something breaks — not a Discord channel
- You want owned code, predictable monthly cost, and the freedom to walk away
- You're a mid-market or enterprise buyer evaluating your first serious AI rollout
Use Lovable when…
- You're a solo founder validating an MVP this weekend
- You need a clickable prototype to show investors before you commit real engineering
- You're comfortable rewriting the backend yourself if the project survives
- Total budget is under $1,000 and time-to-prototype matters more than reliability
Use Make when…
- You already have a SaaS stack (HubSpot + Stripe + Slack + 50 others) and need glue
- You have an internal ops person willing to climb the learning curve
- You're fine with workflow throughput tied to a credit meter
- You don't need a frontend — just orchestration between systems
Use Base44 when…
- You need an internal tool or simple SaaS shipped this week
- Heavy AI usage is not core — credits are the real cost ceiling
- You can live with the platform's design language and infra constraints
- You're willing to manage a credit budget and accept a future rebuild if the app grows
Still not sure which one fits?
Book a 30-minute AI Readiness Briefing. We'll map your specific workflow against each option and tell you — honestly — which one to pick. No pitch deck. If a tool is the right fit, we'll say so.