The basic workflow
Six steps from idea to running business.
MINT is built around one path: the person who understands how the business works builds the tool that runs it. Here is every step, and what you get at each one.
More workflows
Building something specific? Follow its workflow.
Step-by-step guides for a website, an API, an admin panel — and how models are built and changed.
Before you start
Every step works two ways: blocks or AI.
Each step below can be done with the visual builders, or by asking your AI assistant — and you can mix the two. Everything ends up in the same visual editor.
Path A
Build with blocks
Click it together with the visual builders — every step previewed, drafted, then published.
Path B
Let AI build it
Describe it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It plans with you, then builds with the same checks.
A shop backend: products with categories, orders with line items, and a total that adds itself up.
Built 4 models
Product → Category
Order → Customer
Line item → Order, Product
total = Σ line items
Start a project
A project is a workspace: its own data, pages, sidebar, dashboard and API. Make an app for the work your team does every day, an API for your own app, or a website for the people you serve. Start from a ready-made template and change whatever you like — or start blank and build your own.
- Templates: a CRM, finance, inventory, a booking API, an online shop, a blog and more
- A few questions fill the template in — models, pages, dashboard and sample records arrive built
- Everything in it is yours to edit; or skip templates and start from scratch
- Each project is separate — people only see the ones they’re given
Describe your data
Name a thing your business keeps track of and list what you know about it. Every model you save becomes a real table, a form, filters and a page per record — immediately, with nothing to deploy.
- Text, numbers, dates, options, images, files, colours, passwords and more
- Link models together — a booking points at its guest and its room
- Formulas that calculate themselves: total = nights × room.rate
- Or describe it in a sentence and let AI draft the fields
Shape every page
Choose the columns people see, the filters they reach for, how forms are laid out and what a record’s page shows. Work in a draft, check the preview, then publish — your team never sees a half-finished change.
- Form sections, and fields that only appear when they apply
- Detail pages with tabs for everything linked to a record
- Filters, bulk edits, import and export on every table
- Drafts and publishing, with every version kept
Bring in your team
Invite people by email. Their role decides what they can do — view, add, edit, delete, build — and their projects decide where. Narrowing someone’s access is as simple as giving them fewer projects.
- Plain-language roles with standard permissions
- Everyone, or just the projects they work on
- Two-step sign-in with passkeys or email codes
- Belong to several organizations and switch in a click
Run the business
This is where your team lives. Search and filter, edit many rows at once, see the numbers that matter on the home page, and know who changed what — with an undo when someone gets it wrong.
- A dashboard of numbers, charts and recent records you arrange
- Full history on every record: who, what, when — and undo
- Notifications when something comes in from your site
- Archive instead of delete; merge duplicates safely
Go live
Generate endpoints for any model — or make your own — and call them from your website, your mobile app or your server. Let customers create accounts with a drop-in widget on your own site and see only their own records. Count visits without cookies.
- Endpoints per model, at any address, with who may call them and rules on their records
- Paging, sorting, search and filters, with a live tester
- Customer accounts with a ready widget or your own form
- Cookie-free analytics for your website
After launch
The business changes. So does the app — the same afternoon.
Going live isn’t the end of the workflow; it’s the start of a loop. Every change goes through a draft and a preview, so improving the tool never breaks the work.
Notice
Someone on the team needs a new field, a filter, a report.
Draft
Change the model or the page in a draft — or ask your AI to. The live app is untouched.
Preview
See the table, form and page exactly as your team will.
Publish
One click. Every version is kept, so you can go back.
Start at step one. We’ll save you a spot.
Join the waitlist and we’ll open a workspace for your team — set up for what you want to build.