Notes from the platform.
Product news, implementation notes, and technical updates.
Custom apps — bring your own frontend, we'll run the backend
Every flexible platform has a ceiling. You model your data, design your views, build your forms and automations, and for a long way that is enough — f...
The automation builder grew up — branching, code, and AI
Early automations were a straight line. A trigger fired, one step ran, then the next, then it was done. That model is perfect for the simple cases — n...
A REST API built for production scale
An API is easy to ship and hard to run. Exposing an endpoint takes an afternoon; standing behind it once real integrations depend on it is the actual...
From data to dashboards — without a separate BI tool
Data only earns its keep when people can see it. A table full of records is an asset in waiting — the value arrives the moment someone can slice it, c...
The file repository — a real file system for your application
Files attached to records are one use case, and a common one: a contract attached to a customer, a proof of delivery attached to an order, a resume at...
Event log — a searchable record of what happened
"Who did that, and when?" is one of those questions that comes up in every serious business application eventually. Sometimes the context is...
AI agents and bundles — reusable assistants for your processes
A raw chat box is general-purpose. You can ask it anything, and it will try to answer; that's useful for exploratory work and for one-off questions, b...
View layouts — same view, different hands
Two people looking at the same data often need different controls around it. A sales manager scrolling through the pipeline needs bulk actions and gro...
Tags and folders — organize without rearchitecting
Not every organizing principle deserves its own type or property. Sometimes users just want to mark a batch of records as urgent for the next two week...
AI chat assistant — ask the platform, not the docs
Even power users forget things. Which view had that one filter configured the right way? Which automation triggers when a customer is marked inactive,...
AI interoperability — talk to the platform from any AI tool
Users increasingly live inside an AI assistant of their own choosing. They spend substantial portions of their working day asking a general-purpose ch...
AI in the data model and automations — the model builds itself
Designing a data model is the slowest part of getting a new implementation off the ground. The conceptual work — deciding which types exist, which pro...
Mentions and comments — conversation on the record
Work happens in conversations. When tools treat records as cold data and conversations as a separate problem — email, chat, a meeting that someone tak...
Secrets management — credentials that never end up in code
Every integration has a credential behind it. An API key for a payment processor. A token for a shipping carrier. A password for a legacy system. An a...
Version management — knowing what's running and upgrading safely
A platform that silently changes under customers' feet loses their trust. One day a button works; the next day it's in a different place, or it behave...
Saved queries and filter lists — reuse the data slice you just built
Anyone who has put real effort into composing a filter has had the same thought afterward: I'd like to have that again tomorrow. And the thought after...
Advanced filtering — nested conditions, OR branches, and subqueries
Real questions about business data rarely look like "customers where status equals active." They look like "customers where status is a...
Repeating form sections — the replicator
A surprising number of forms need to collect "some number of these." Invoice line items. Event attendees. Questionnaire entries where the us...
File uploads — resumable, asynchronous, and reliable
Uploading a single small file from a good connection is the easy case. Every piece of web software handles it. The cases that generate complaints are...
User invitations — onboard new people in one click
Onboarding is where trust is won or lost. A new team member joining an organization has an implicit first impression of every tool they encounter on d...