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AI Forms | Ultimate Guide
AI forms are becoming an increasingly critical component within all sorts of workflows. After all, forms are some of the basic building blocks of how we empower users to interact with data and processes. With the ever-growing prevalence of AI, it only stands to reason that form-building would be one of the areas that’s most impacted. What’s tricky, though, is that the term AI form can refer to a few fairly different things, depending on context.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 26, 2025
Top 6 AI From Builders for 2025
AI form builders have exploded in popularity over the past couple of years, offering a fast, easy way to output working data collection tools. Because of this, we now have a huge number of AI form generators to choose from, including from most of the big names in the form builder space more broadly. However, it’s also important to note that this comes as part of a wider rush for SaaS brands to implement AI functionality.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 26, 2025
Build Dynamic Forms on Top of Any Data | 4 Methods
Dynamic forms are a powerful, flexible solution for adding additional logic to our data collection workflows. The idea is to enable us to present forms with different schemas, depending on our needs in a given situation. As we’ll see later, this can be based on a few different types of logic. However, this is something that can be quite difficult to achieve, even with many of the top dedicated form builders.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 23, 2025
10 Employee Onboarding Software Tools for 2025
Employee onboarding is a far-reaching, complex process that just about every business needs to manage. This covers all aspects of how we transition a new hire from accepting an offer to becoming a fully productive member of the team. As such, onboarding requires extensive collaboration between stakeholders in diverse departments, including HR, finance, IT, and the onboardee’s new team. The key challenge here is that the tasks we assign to each of these colleagues need to be closely tracked and managed, especially in terms of handling dependencies and sequencing.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 18, 2025
Employee Onboarding Processes | Ultimate Guide
Employee onboarding is an essential, wide-reaching process in every business. Successfully onboarding new hires means integrating them into the company culture and enabling them to become productive colleagues as quickly as possible. However, this is also a uniquely challenging process. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, onboarding requires input from a range of colleagues across HR, IT, finance, and the hiree’s own department. Secondly, although many of the core tasks will be the same, the specific details of how we onboard employees will depend on their role.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 18, 2025
6 TypeForm Alternatives for 2025
TypeForm is one of the most popular form builder tools on the market today, owing in large part to its intuitive, streamlined experiences for creating professional data collection UIs. However, this is a relatively crowded space, with several notable vendors targeting specific types of use cases and end users. Today, we’re checking out an important angle on form builders, by checking out some of the most prominent TypeForm alternatives on the market today.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 3, 2025
8 JotForm Alternatives for 2025
JotForm is perhaps the best-known form builder tool on the market today. However, this is a more varied space than it might appear. On the one hand, most platforms offer wider capabilities beyond simply outputting form UIs. On the other hand, different vendors often have their own more granular target personas and use cases. Today, we’re shedding light on this by exploring the market for JotForm alternatives, including a range of solutions that are aimed at different kinds of users and applications.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 1, 2025
Workspaces
Today, we’re excited to launch Workspaces: the first step in a major evolution for Budibase. A new architecture for better workflows Previously, Budibase centered everything around building a single app. Each app had its own automations and data sources. But as teams scaled, reusing automations or data across multiple apps became a challenge. With Workspaces, that changes. Now, you can group multiple apps, automations, and data sources together within a single workspace.
Joe Johnston
Aug 19, 2025