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App editor and standard apps

Welcome to App editor and standard apps, an end-to-end practical course designed for business analysts, operations leaders, and citizen developers who want to build and deploy intelligent automation apps. You don’t need a background in coding, scripting, or computer science to succeed in this course.

In this training, you’ll learn how to use Instabase’s low-code/no-code interface to transform raw, unstructured documents into structured, ready-to-use data. Step by step, you’ll go from a blank canvas to a fully deployed enterprise application. You’ll learn how to teach the AI to read your documents, extract complex data points using everyday language, apply business logic, handle exceptions, and deploy your finished app so others can use it.

Most tasks in these topics require the developer role or higher.

In some course content, you might see or hear AI Hub Build when referring to the app editor. These terms mean the same thing and reflect past versions of the AI Hub user interface. Similarly, Build projects and Build apps are synonymous with the projects and apps created with the app editor.

Who should attend

  • Citizen developers and business analysts — Learn to visually automate repetitive document tasks with zero coding.

  • Operations specialists and domain experts — Build and deploy high-accuracy solutions tailored to your team’s specific workflows.

  • Technical developers and solutions architects — Master the visual, out-of-the-box build mechanics before progressing to custom coding and pipeline orchestration in the flow editor and advanced apps course.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Initialize and structure a new app project from scratch.

  • Configure your application to automatically classify and organize incoming document streams.

  • Extract high-accuracy data (including text, tables, lists, and checkboxes) using plain-English instructions (prompts).

  • Apply custom logic and clean raw outputs using Excel-like formulas and validation rules.

  • Set up human-in-the-loop validation for exception handling.

  • Compile, deploy, and integrate your completed application into production environments and connect it to external systems using native integrations and APIs.