# AI app builder for business apps, on one company platform > Describe the business app you need and the AI builds it, with screens, workflow, permissions and hosting. Your people and roles are already in it. Source: https://www.cordango.com/generate/ Language: en HOW IT WORKS · 01 # Describe the app. Get the app. Tell Cordango what you need in plain words. It asks a few questions about how you actually work, then builds the business app, hosted and secured, with your people and permissions already in it. You never see a blank database, and you never design a schema. [Book a demo →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [The three ways in](https://www.cordango.com/generate/#three-ways) 1. 01 Idea / Prompt 2. [02 App Definition](https://www.cordango.com/app-definition/) 3. [03 App Contract](https://www.cordango.com/app-contract/) 4. [04 Live Business App](https://www.cordango.com/run-on-cordango/) 1. Your request 2. Who uses it? 3. Which stages? 4. Who sees what? 5. What happens on its own? FIG.00 — STAGE 01 OF 04 · IDEA / PROMPT ## It starts from a sentence, not an empty canvas. Most builders hand you a blank project and a database designer. That is the moment the process expert stops and the platform expert takes over. Cordango starts where you already are: you know what the work looks like, so you describe it. The questions it asks back are about your process, not about foreign keys. What arrives is a complete application, not a starting point you have to finish. It has its own screens, its own workflow, its own permissions and its own dashboard. If something is wrong, you say so and it changes. - IN Start from a sentence, not a blank database - Q&A It asks the questions, you skip the schema design - OUT A working app, hosted and secured for you - EDIT Change your mind later just by asking Create an app Guided \# you > a way to track customer support tickets \# cordango ai ? who can see tickets → support team, managers ? what statuses → open, in progress, done ✔ generated Ticket · Customer · Status · Assignee ✔ hosted & secured permissions set from your answers ## Three ways in. None of them a blank page. WAY-01 ### Describe it, the AI builds it Need a CRM, a ticket system, a vacation planner? Tell Cordango what you need. It asks a few questions and builds the app, hosted and secured, with permissions sorted. WAY-02 ### Install one that already exists Somebody has usually solved it before. Browse the ready-made apps other companies published, install one and make it yours. It arrives working, not as a starting point you have to finish. [The App Library →](https://www.cordango.com/templates/) [Business app use cases →](https://www.cordango.com/use-cases/) WAY-03 ### Too complex? We build it Some apps are too involved for the generator. Tell us what you need and we build it for you, in days not months. A custom app at a fraction of what custom software used to cost. However the app arrives, it lands on the same platform, with the same users, permissions, data and governance as everything else you run. None of the three starts with an empty canvas, and none of them starts a new silo. Most of what gets built this way is either an [internal tool](https://www.cordango.com/internal-tools/) or a [business app](https://www.cordango.com/business-app-builder/) shaped around one process. ## The same request, on two different foundations. The generated app is only half of what you get. On a normal AI builder, a new app also means a new database, a new login and a new place for company data to sit outside the company. On Cordango, the foundation is already there before the first question is asked. Your colleagues are already in it, with the right managers and teams, because they come from the company directory rather than a fresh user table. Permissions are enforced by the platform rather than written into the app. And the app belongs to the company, so it survives the person who asked for it. [How the foundation works →](https://www.cordango.com/security/) Same request · two outcomes Acme Ltd \# on an ai builder ✔ a working holiday tracker + a new database + a new login + a new host \# on cordango ✔ a working holiday tracker ✔ your people already there, already correct ✔ your permissions already enforced ✔ company-owned survives whoever built it ## What happens after you press go. 01 ### It asks about your process Who is involved, what the statuses are, what has to be approved. Business questions, in business words, and only a few of them. 02 ### It builds the whole app Screens, workflow, permissions and a dashboard. Not a table you then have to turn into an application yourself. 03 ### You get a definition and a contract The app is an [App Definition](https://www.cordango.com/app-definition/) you can read and change, and it comes with an [App Contract](https://www.cordango.com/app-contract/) that tells the rest of your company how to work with it. Run it for a week, then ask for the change. Most teams start with one process that currently lives in a spreadsheet, and go from there. MORE ## Further reading - [**App Definition** How the app works: domain, data, experience, logic and access](https://www.cordango.com/app-definition/) - [**App Contract** What the app offers: purpose, events, actions, queries and dependencies](https://www.cordango.com/app-contract/) - [**Run on Cordango** The live app: personal views, governance, shared context and connected work](https://www.cordango.com/run-on-cordango/) - [**Sample apps** Explore real apps you can install and make yours](https://www.cordango.com/templates/) - [**Use cases** See where Cordango fits best, with a real app behind each one](https://www.cordango.com/use-cases/) - [**Capabilities** CRM, projects, PTO, support and more](https://www.cordango.com/capabilities/) - [**Governance built in** Identity, permissions and audit included](https://www.cordango.com/security/) - [**Platform foundation** The company foundation underneath every app](https://www.cordango.com/platform/) NEXT ## Watch one get built from a sentence. A live session on your own processes. An app generated, used and changed, in about 30 minutes. [Book a demo →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [The one-pager](https://www.cordango.com/one-pager/)