ERP was never designed for the AI era. Vibe-ERP is.
We started Vibe-ERP because we spent years watching businesses struggle with ERP systems that were designed for a different era. Legacy systems that cost millions, took years to implement, and still required armies of people to operate. When AI began transforming every other category of software, ERP remained stubbornly unchanged. We're building the system that should have existed from day one — one where AI isn't bolted on as an afterthought, but woven into every layer of the architecture.
The problem we're solving
Traditional ERP systems fail modern businesses in four fundamental ways. They're rigid — built on architectures that assume business processes are static, requiring months of consultant-led customization to adapt to even minor changes. They're people-dependent — demanding entire teams of specialists just to keep them running, from administrators and developers to the consultants who never quite leave. Every workflow, every approval, every exception still routes through a human because the system was never designed to act on its own.
They're expensive — not just in licensing fees, but in the staggering total cost of ownership that scales with headcount rather than value delivered. And perhaps most critically, they're AI-incompatible. Their monolithic architectures, proprietary data models, and brittle integration layers make it nearly impossible to embed AI in any meaningful way. Bolting a chatbot onto a system designed for manual data entry doesn't make it intelligent — it makes it a legacy system with a chat window. Vibe-ERP exists because we believe the only way to solve these problems is to start from zero, with AI as the foundation rather than a feature.
Built by people who've lived the pain.
Carl Westman
CEO & Founder
Carl brings 17 years of experience at the intersection of technology and finance. As co-founder of Swedish unicorn Kivra, and as a co-founder and investor across multiple industries, he’s built and scaled businesses from the inside. His most recent role as CFO at ARC Power gave him a front-row seat to the failures and frustrations of legacy ERP — and the conviction to build something better.
Build with precision
We don’t ship vague AI features. Every capability has a specific job and a measurable outcome.
Respect the customer’s intelligence
Our users know what ERP is and why it’s painful. We don’t oversimplify. We just solve it better.
Make it inevitable
The best technology feels like the obvious answer in retrospect. That’s what we’re building.