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.
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
