App Cloud basics
What is an app cloud?
An app cloud is a home for creating and running applications and agents, with the models, data, files, and services their work needs.
How it works.
Building an interface is one part of making useful software. A customer portal also needs accounts and documents. A research agent needs sources and a way to keep its findings. An app cloud brings these capabilities into the same product experience, so the creation can keep serving a purpose after its first version.
Your app cloud starts with what you want to make. You choose an experience, give it relevant information, and decide who can use it. As you learn from using it, you can change its behavior or add another capability. Each creation uses the pieces that serve its purpose.
- Apps give people an experience they can use.
- Agents work through goals using context and available actions.
- Persistent data and services support ongoing use.
What this looks like.
- A customer portal brings project records, documents, and account access together.
- A creative studio combines image or video models with files and a review workflow.
- A research agent works through supplied material and prepares a brief for review.
The pieces that matter.
Create
Start with an idea, existing information, or a design. Describe the audience and the result they need.
Run
Give the creation the data, models and services it needs, with access and usage appropriate to its purpose.
Improve
Use the first version, review the results, and refine the experience as your needs change.
Before you begin.
Capabilities have different jobs
Language models interpret requests; a database keeps records. One does not replace the other.
A useful cloud needs clear boundaries
Decide what is public, which actions need a person, and how usage should be controlled.
In your App Cloud.
Exepad calls this Your App Cloud: build apps, run agents, and bring their models, data and services together. A portal, voice experience or workflow agent is a starting point you can shape around your own work.
Explore the capabilities or find an app or agent to create. Plan allowances and usage are explained on Pricing.
A few useful distinctions.
Does every app need AI?
No. A directory or task tracker can be useful with a clear interface and persistent data. Add models or an agent when they improve a specific task.
Is an app cloud only for developers?
People can start by describing what they want. Developers and coding agents can use the available developer interfaces. These are different ways to work with the same product concept.
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