Today at Retool Summit we announced enterprise AppGen — the first platform where you can generate production-ready apps with natural language.
AppGen starts with Assist (Beta), now live in your Retool editor. Assist lets you:
Generate a fully functional app, wired up to your real data + schemas
Stay secure by default (SSO, RBAC, compliance already in place)
Deploy instantly — no external handoffs
Just describe what you want to build:
“Create a dashboard showing unshipped orders over $5k, with filters and alert rules.”
This is the first of a growing set of generative AI capabilities rolling out across Retool’s platform — and we can’t wait to see what you build with it.
Just tried, and the first prompt gives back the warning:
*You've reached OpenAI's rate limit. Wait a few minutes, and try again.
*
Are we meant to do some other than start using it?
“You've reached OpenAI's rate limit. Wait a few minutes, and try again.”
It was working yesterday, even this morning. We’ve used about 222 credits (90% of these have been reminding it that the graph it’s meant to be populating is empty) so perhaps you put a limit on the free use?
We have our own Open API Keys but are not on the enterprise plan, so we can’t do what jason3w has done above.
In that actual version, it’s good to produce a first draft of a project.
However, it’s seems to be lacking good usage of basic tools contextual to Retool. For exemple, a simple query to modify options in a Select burns through credits without an usable result.
Another exemple, it says it cannot use tools to create tables in Retool Database as it just created some tables the prompt right before.
The Agent seems to have only a partial knowledge of Retool.
The bottleneck seems to be the underlying models used, but also the fine tuning to the specific use-case of Retool usage.
It that current version, it cannot produce or maintain a production-grade app, that’s clear. Even modifying more than 2 or 3 iterations on a simple project is too much.
However, it's promising and clearly an important step forward, as AI-powered IDEs are clearly moving to the forefront of competition with Retool.
Hey everyone, thanks so much for all the detailed feedback and questions over the past couple of weeks We’ve been reading every single comment and taking notes!
Last month, we hosted our second round of AI Build Week. If you missed it, definitely check out the replays, Q&A sessions, and resources. Each day we built a real app live using natural language, real data, and the power of Assist, plus shared templates, examples, and live Q&A along the way!
We’re also actively working on a few big areas to make Assist and AppGen even better. This includes multipage app building and editing, GraphQL support, better theming options, and improvements to context window management. We’re rolling out in product CSAT surveys and guided onboarding prompts to help us better understand your workflows. And on the reliability side, Assist is becoming much smarter about UI editing so it won’t break layouts when adding new components.
We really appreciate all your experiments and candid notes, they’re shaping our next updates! Keep the feedback coming in this thread or tag app gen on any new builds you share!
Hey all! We’ve started hosting AI Office Hours and the next session is happening tomorrow (Dec 11) at 9am PT. Bring your AI questions and come hang out with us
Launch Day: AppGen is live in Retool
Where to start
Intro to AppGen – how it works
Demo walkthrough – see it in action
Docs – ready to build
retool.com – open the editor and try it live!
To celebrate the launch, we’re running a Community Challenge (see below 
) with badges, prizes, and features in the Builder Digest!
AppGen Challenge
Prompt Pro Challenge
We’ve been reading every single comment and taking notes!
Keep the feedback coming in this thread or tag app gen on any new builds you share!
