Daniel Chilcott
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And certainly we do a lot of that.
So these automated backend integrations that you never interact with.
But the more exciting thing where we're seeing a lot of growth is this idea of these lightweight apps that you can build really easily that will
become this kind of composed front end where taking an action in that app can execute multiple actions on multiple underlying systems.
So it's a much more ergonomic way to work based on how your business is set up and the processes that you're trying to work through.
And Flowgear has, I think, a big role to play there.
To make that more concrete, AI has made it very easy to build front end very quickly and someone with
Essentially, no technical experience can build that.
What's a little harder is figuring out the back end.
So I build an app that needs to show a list of things I need to do, maybe orders I need to review before approving them or something to that effect.
And I need the data for those orders to come from ERP, but perhaps augmented by some data from CRM where there's certain information that I don't have there.
And so Flowgear is a great way to create a backend that can do that safely without compromising on security.
But it's a very ergonomic way for someone to work because previously they would have had to touch two separate apps to perform that process.
And so where we're at today is you can be in an IDE and use an extension like Claude or Codex and ask it to build an app.
And as it needs to build backend, it actually creates Flowgear workflows on the fly from outside of the Flowgear platform.
So the agent understands that it's a backend that is a safe way to connect into the customer system and just builds them on the fly.
And in many of these cases,
These users don't even need to sign into the platform.
They've obviously got a login to the platform.
That's how it's able to compose these workflows, but it's kind of done for them at a distance.