Assembly Line

Build your own business software

When no CRM, ERP or job system fits the way you work, a coding agent can build one shaped around you. This is how it goes, and where to run it.

When building beats buying

  • Your process is how you win work, and a package would make you work its way.
  • You pay per seat for a suite and use a fraction of it.
  • The open-source options would need heavy changes before they fit.
  • It has to work with systems you already run.

How it goes

  1. Write down the jobList the screens, the records and the rules: who enters what, who approves it, what happens next. This is the brief your coding agent works from.
  2. Pick the building blocksMost systems need the same parts: login, a database, background jobs, payments, documents. The directory files the open-source ones by job, below.
  3. Have a coding agent build itClaude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI can write a full business app from that brief and keep changing it as you learn.
  4. Run it on WhiskWhisk gives the app login and roles, its own Postgres database, workflows, queues, scheduled jobs, storage, email, backups and your domain, so there are no servers to set up.
  5. Keep improving itEvery change is a request to your agent and a deploy. The system grows with the business instead of the business bending to a package.

Run it on Whisk

When no package fits the way your business works, have a coding agent build the system around you, and run it on Whisk. Whisk hosts the websites, shops, portals and business apps that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI build. Every app comes with:

  • Login and roles
  • A Postgres database per app
  • Durable workflows
  • Queues
  • Scheduled jobs
  • Secrets
  • Webhooks
  • File storage
  • Email
  • Backups
  • Custom domains
  • Log search

A whole CRM with many screens is still one app, and your first app is free.

Start on Whisk How to build your own

Building blocks in the directory