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How to have Maggie build an app

Goal

Get a working web application — a booking page, a habit tracker, a client portal — by describing it to Maggie in a conversation. The app builder is called Daedalus. There is no separate form to fill in: you ask, answer any questions it has, and review the build.

Before you start

  • You can start a build from any conversation.
  • Building uses your organization's Intelligence Tokens.
  • Every build you start is listed in the Daedalus console; finished apps are listed under Applications.

Steps

  1. In a conversation, describe the app you want in plain words — who it is for and what it must do. For example: "Build me a booking page for my salon: clients pick a service and a time, and I get an email for each booking."

Step 1 — the conversation composer on Home with an app request typed in, before it is sent

  1. Maggie replies with a build card in the conversation. If anything is ambiguous, the card lists Open Questions — answer them on the card. Until you do, its button reads Answer Questions First.
  2. When the questions are answered, review the plan with View build plan, then choose Accept And Start. The button changes to Building… while Daedalus works.
  3. When the build finishes, the card reads Build Complete. Open the preview from the card, or take the code with Download .zip.

Follow your builds in the Daedalus console

Open Daedalus to see every app Daedalus has built for you, and what each one is waiting on. The tabs group builds by what you need to do: All, Running, Needs you, Held, Complete, Canceled. Needs you collects builds waiting for an answer or a review. Each build links back to the conversation that started it.

A finished build can be moved up one environment at a time with Promote to … — for example from sandbox to staging. If a promotion is not possible yet, the console says why.

Verify it worked

The build appears under Complete in the Daedalus console, and the app appears under Applications (tab Yours).

Troubleshooting

Problem What to do
The card says Answer Questions First Answer the Open Questions on the card; the build cannot start until they are answered.
The card says Review Required The build needs a person to look at it. Open it from Needs you in the Daedalus console.
The card says Build Failed Open the build in the Daedalus console to see what failed, then ask Maggie in the same conversation to try again with that in mind.
I cannot find a build from last week Open Daedalus; every build is listed there even after its conversation has scrolled away.
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