App Generation Overview

Applies to: App Generation projects that use the SaaS Engine template

App Generation creates a hosted application from your requirements. It combines AI-assisted creation with a preconfigured SaaS application foundation.

Use this workflow for a data-driven application, such as a CRM, ERP, portal, directory, operations system, or internal tool.

What AppWizzy creates

AppWizzy can create these application parts:

  • a tailored database schema.
  • a web interface for your data and workflows.
  • a backend and application programming interface.
  • authentication, roles, and permissions.
  • dashboards and common data views.
  • generated source code.
  • a hosted development environment.

The SaaS Engine template supplies the application foundation. AppWizzy adapts that foundation to your requirements and data model.

App Generation is not a feature of every AppWizzy template. Hosting runtimes and AI workspaces use different creation and management workflows.

Creation workflow

  1. Open Create New App.
  2. Select SaaS Engine or let Auto recommend it.
  3. Describe the application, users, data, workflows, and permissions.
  4. Answer the AI Architect questions.
  5. Review the selected template and machine size.
  6. Wait while AppWizzy creates the schema, source code, and development environment.
  7. Review the application in Edit via Chat.
  8. Request changes or edit the source code.
  9. Save a version after a useful change.

Generation starts when the AI Architect has enough information. AppWizzy then opens the project while creation continues.

Read Requirements Gathering before you create a complex application.

Your requirements control the result

Describe the business process before you describe pages or colors. Identify the records that users must create, review, change, and report.

Define each user role and its permitted actions. Include approval steps, ownership rules, and tenant boundaries when they are required.

AppWizzy uses this information to create the initial schema and application. Incomplete requirements can produce an incomplete first version.

You can continue the work in the project editor. Use Edit via Chat for application changes and Code Editor for direct source changes.

Generated schema and views

The schema defines the application records, fields, and relationships. The generated interface uses this schema for forms, pages, permissions, and data views.

AppWizzy can use table, list, card, calendar, and kanban views. The available view depends on the entity fields and selected stack.

Read Create Schema and Data Representation: View Types.

Development environment

AppWizzy creates the application in a hosted development environment. The environment uses an AppWizzy VM and persistent disk storage.

The initial generation process deploys the application automatically. You can monitor its status and open its build logs from the project.

Manual stable deployment controls are currently unavailable. Read Deploying a Generated App for the current deployment behavior.

Source code and application data

Generated source code and application data are different assets. A code version does not contain the complete database, uploads, secrets, or VM state.

Use project versions for code checkpoints. Use the AppWizzy backup process for restoration of the hosted VM system.

Read Data Persistence and Backups before you make a destructive application change.

Costs

App Generation can use credits for template access, VM hosting, AI work, and deployment operations. The applicable costs depend on your selected options.

Review the displayed price before creation. Read Pricing, Plans, and Credits for the shared billing model.

Next steps