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Low code, Vibe code & us

As AI Code generators and vibe coding dominated the narrative, low-code platforms looked on as the unloved child, missing the spotlight. We, and (so I’ve heard) other low/no-code platforms, felt a cooling and squeezing of our market. Customers wanted to “wait and see what happens with AI”, before committing to any big contracts. The most obvious move for any low-code product to take was to add prompt-to-app capabilities - vibe-coding low-code.

Michael Shanks

Nov 21, 2025

AI Agents for Business Operations + Use Cases and Tools

Agentic AI is quickly transforming the way businesses handle all kinds of internal processes. Compared to traditional automation tools, AI agents are capable of handling a far wider variety of tasks, including those that might otherwise require human reasoning and decision-making. As such, the potential to improve efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness in our workflows is huge. Today, we’re examining one of the most prominent clusters of use cases by diving deep into AI agents for business operations, including everything from key use cases to the tooling we can rely on to implement agentic systems.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 20, 2025

How to Automate Internal Approvals with AI

Internal approvals are some of the most prevalent workflows in just about every organization. In fact, these are critical to all kinds of processes where we need to control access to specific resources or when users can carry out various actions. This is crucial for a range of compliance, security, and other operational reasons. But at the same time, managing approval workflows manually can create huge amounts of admin work.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 13, 2025

AI Ticket Triage | Benefits, Tools & Implementation

Ticket triage is one of the most widely adopted use cases for AI-powered workflows. Huge numbers of teams have already adopted some form of AI processing on their incoming tickets for a range of internal and external support functions. However, there are a few distinct ways we can go about this, from AI tools within dedicated ticketing and support platforms to more customized solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into AI ticket triage, including what to look for in solutions, and how we can build AI-powered workflows for handling incoming tickets with Budibase.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 12, 2025

What is Form Automation? + Examples and Use Cases

Countless workflows revolve around collecting structured data and applying business logic to it. This includes everything from simple approval requests to triggering complex, in-depth processes. Today, we’re looking at one of the most important tools we can use to manage these types of workflows by diving deep into form automation. Form submissions are one of the most common automation triggers. In fact, all sorts of user-facing automated processes rely on these.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 11, 2025

What is AI Data Entry? + Building 5 Examples

Data entry is one of the areas where the impact of AI is most apparent. As a highly repetitive, time-consuming task, AI-powered automations have the potential to be completely transformative here. However, this is also quite a broad term. That is, there are a huge number of workflows and tasks that we could describe as requiring some element of data entry. At the same time, there are several key ways that we can leverage LLMs and other AI tools to enhance these workflows.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 6, 2025

6 Open WebUI Alternatives for 2025

As AI becomes an increasingly prevalent part of day-to-day life, more and more businesses are prioritizing solutions that enable them to leverage their own data and models securely. The key issue here is that we often can’t simply allow users to send company data to publicly available AI services. At the same time, without implementing similar capabilities, it can be hard to stop employees from using AI tools as a form of shadow IT.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 4, 2025

What is Conversational Ticketing? + Tool Stacks & Use Cases

AI chat is fast becoming a core part of how teams in every industry manage all kinds of user-facing workflows. Conversational ticketing is probably the best example of this. Ticketing workflows, where end-users submit issues, problems, or other requests and queries in a structured format, to be triaged and resolved by support agents, create huge workloads for a range of internal teams. This is most obvious in teams like IT, HR, or customer support, which dedicate huge resources to fielding incoming tickets.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 30, 2025