Dev Platform

Generate software your developers can keep developing

BuildPad is built around a structured architecture rather than treating every prompt as a one-off. The platform, the backend, the UI layer and your code each have a clear job, and requirements, design, tasks and testing wrap the AI-assisted part.

Expandable and Consistent Architecture
How an app is put together
  • Next.js or Go.js over a DaaS backend
  • Schema-driven UI components
  • Specs reviewed before code
The same shape in every feature0/3

Three layers you build on.

Responsibilities are divided rather than mixed inside one generated file or a proprietary runtime.

Dev Platform

BuildPad Dev Platform

Manages organizations, projects, microapps, workers, connectors, builds and AI IDE starters.

  • Provisions the project
  • Governs platform access
  • Generates the starters
Backend

BuildPad DaaS

The project's data backend: collections, fields, relations, roles and policies, files, event hooks, workflows, cron jobs and APIs.

  • Stores the data
  • Enforces permissions
  • Exposes REST APIs
Interface

BuildPad UI

The component and interface layer: forms, tables, field interfaces, file managers and other reusable application modules.

  • Renders the screens
  • Reads collection metadata
  • Copied into your project

Code your developers will understand.

The starter produces a conventional application. The same patterns hold for the tenth feature as for the first, and every feature is specified the same way before it is built.

Stack

Next.js or Go.js over a DaaS backend

  • You pick Next.js or Go.js, and the starter bootstraps it wired to DaaS
  • Collection fields map to real database column types
  • The backend exposes REST endpoints for every collection
  • One-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many relations
  • Components, API routes, auth, tests and deploy config
batchnexus-appNext.js
app/
components/
React componentsAPI routesRelational dataTestsDeploy config
Consistency

Screens built from the schema

  • Components render from your collection metadata
  • A field type resolves to the right input control
  • A collection resolves to a working form or table
  • Relation and workflow controls are included
  • The tenth collection is built like the first
bookingsSchema-driven
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event
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seats
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status
confirmed

Both are rendered from the same collection metadata, using over 40 field interfaces.

Spec

Requirements, design and tasks, approved before code

  • You describe the application in plain language
  • Your AI IDE drafts requirements, then design, then tasks
  • You approve each one before any code is written
  • A mistake costs a sentence instead of a refactor
  • The three documents stay in the repository
Spec reviewDraft
1# Bookings
2
3## Requirements
4- A booking belongs to one event and one customer
5- Seats cannot exceed remaining capacity
6- Cancelling records who cancelled it

The hard part starts after the first feature.

The prompt is temporary. The specification becomes part of the project.

AI can produce the first version of a feature quickly. The harder questions arrive at the fifth, the tenth and the fiftieth. Are permissions handled consistently? Can a feature be reviewed before it is generated?

BuildPad's answer is structure rather than speed alone. Clear layers, a familiar stack, schema-driven components, shared services, reviewable specifications and testing patterns are all there from the first feature, so the answer to those questions stays predictable as the application grows.

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