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SMFL President Tetsuro Imaeda said the aim is to lower the effort and time individual customization requires.","whyItMatters":"A leasing company that built its own asset management cloud is now selling custom development on top of it, and it is using an AI coding platform plus on-site engineers to make one-off enterprise work cheap enough to offer as a service.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eassetforce began as an internal tool. SMFL built the cloud asset management system in-house, used it on its own operations, and started selling it externally in 2021. It has passed 200 paid contracts, and registered asset data has reached 4 million items.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new offering targets the requests assetforce\u0026#39;s configurable fields and approval flows could not absorb. Replit provides the browser-based development environment, and SMFL\u0026#39;s Forward Deployed Engineers handle the customization on site. Imaeda framed the combination as a way to clear the barrier of time and effort that individual customization has carried.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"SMFL's Replit rollout pairs vibe coding with Forward Deployed Engineers on site. The service sells customization, so the risk shifts from build time to whether on-site staff can stabilize what Replit generates inside assetforce.","twitterPost":"SMFL sells customized SaaS built on Replit, but the Forward Deployed Engineer on site is what decides whether vibe-coded changes hold inside assetforce.","threadsPost":"SMFL's Replit service leans on Forward Deployed Engineers working on site, not on vibe coding alone. 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