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Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can now build and deploy full-stack apps directly on Zite.

Your agent gets its own sandbox, writes the code itself, and deploys with a database, auth and permissions built in.

No second AI in the middle. Zero Zite credits.

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Today we’re turning your Claude subscription into a full AI app builder.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to Zite MCP and ask for an app. It goes live with its own database, logins for your whole team, roles for who sees what.

Zero Zite credits.

[Dominic Whyte @domwhyte42]

This week, we shipped 33 improvements to Zite.

The biggest is a completely new workspace layout. We rethought it from the ground up as @zite evolves from building individual apps to running entire systems.

Here's what's changed:

🧭 Workspace

• One sidebar for apps, databases, users, integrations, version history, and settings

• More room to build with a collapsible sidebar and resizable chat

• See who's working on each app and which builds need attention

• Switch organizations, star workspaces, and organize them into sections

• Better workspace URLs and faster navigation

💡 Building with AI

• Feature suggestions as you type your prompt

• Auto mode is now the default

• Larger chat box, with drafts saved across refreshes

• Paste image URLs directly into chat

• Long builds now retain their to-do lists

• Hero images generate in ~20 seconds, with better image quality

• App previews update after every build, with sample data for private apps

🚚 Migrating to Zite

• New migration hub for Airtable, Notion, Salesforce, Monday, and more

• Rebuild Fillout forms as full apps, preserving logic, branding, and connected accounts

• Airtable rollups stay live after import

🗃️ Database

• Import data directly from connected tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Notion

• Simpler AI field models: Mini, Pro, and Max

• Filter tables using checkboxes in linked records

• Search tables directly from the tab list

• People lookups now show names instead of IDs

• CSV exports include formulas, rollups, and lookups

🔐 Access & sharing

• Open internal apps across organizations without switching dashboards

• Email notifications when teammates are granted access

• Access requests go to workspace managers

• Improvements to revoking users

• Custom domains for internal apps

🤖 Connected AI agents

• Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor straight from Home

• See which agent made each change, with a dedicated activity feed

• Connected agents can upload files to your database

• Connected agents can create and edit AI fields

✨ And more

• Faster published apps and sign-ins

• Duplicate entire workspaces, including connected accounts, secrets, and context

• 50 free credits for work-email signups, plus 50 for each onboarding step

Full changelog: https://t.co/tAnBbodiEc

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We're starting with CRM, Applicant Tracker, LMS, Grant Management, Property Management, Community Hub and Issue Tracking.

Browse the marketplace: https://t.co/PVeyZGj2qu

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Zite Solutions are live, starting with five business systems:

CRM
ATS
LMS
Issue Tracking
Property Management

These aren't templates. They're fully working applications you can copy and customize with AI.

All free & open source. $0/seat.

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Connect to AI and 50+ integrations in 2 clicks.

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You can now interact with your Zite apps directly in ChatGPT.

We're using OpenAI's new Plugin Extensions, announced at DevDay, to make this possible.

Ask ChatGPT to find your apps, open one, and you'll see a live preview right in the conversation.

Make changes and see the app update as it builds.

- Browse your Zite workspaces and apps

- Explore your databases, including tables, fields, and relationships

- Browse Zite marketplace solutions and create your own copy

Available now through the verified Zite plugin in ChatGPT.

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@domwhyte42 Full overview here: https://t.co/CBuHnh088M

[Dominic Whyte @domwhyte42]

12 more improvements to Zite this week. Our team is shipping.

Here's what's new:

1. 🎨 Custom emails: Fully customize the invitation and sign-in emails your app sends, including text, branding, and buttons.

2. 👥 Simpler invitations: Invited users can now sign in immediately, without a second verification email.

3. ✉️ Optional invite emails: Add users to your app without emailing them until you're ready.

4. 🔑 Faster sign-ins: One-click email verification and easier switching between organizations.

5. ⏱️ Session controls: Choose how long users stay signed in to your apps.

6. 📋 Audit log exports: Download your audit logs as CSV for compliance and reporting.

7. 🤖 Smarter planning: Plan mode can now connect to integrations first and understand your actual data before building.

8. ⚡ Faster publishing: App changes go live 40% faster.

9. 👀 Better app visibility: See who's working on each app, what's building, and what's ready to publish live as it happens.

10. 🌍 Right-to-left emails: Support for languages like Arabic and Hebrew in app emails.

11. 🎨 Better color contrast: Zite automatically adjusts brand kit colors to keep text and charts readable.

12. 🔄 More reliable workflows: Scheduled workflows can now run longer without timing out.

And we've got several major new @zite features to announce next week.

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[Dominic Whyte @domwhyte42]

Local governments have been stuck with expensive, outdated software for far too long.

At the first @zite SF Build Summit, we got a glimpse of the future.

Teams from San Francisco, Santa Clara County, Solano County, Boston, Arizona, and more came together for a day of building, in partnership with Chris Dancy from MetroIQ.

A few highlights:

- The City of Boston shared how they replaced a 25-year-old grants management system with Zite, saving an estimated $2M per year
- Santa Clara County demoed a system for tracking vote centers in the county
- Arizona's Law Enforcement Accreditation Program showed off a custom platform for managing accreditation across agencies

For years, local governments have had to choose between expensive, inflexible vendors and building custom software with engineering resources they often don't have.

That's finally changing.

Here's a look at the event:

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If you ski or spend much time in the mountains, you know how important avalanche safety is.

AIARE is the nonprofit behind the national standard for avalanche education, working with 115 education providers and 1,600 trained instructors who teach ~10,000 students every year.

Behind all of that was a pretty complicated set of systems: Airtable bases, a WordPress portal with ~50 plugins, custom integrations, and separate systems for online learning.

And Sarah MacGregor manages their entire technology stack with no formal engineering training!

Using Zite, she built a new system where providers can manage courses, upload student rosters, track learning progress, and automatically check instructor qualifications, duplicate students, and AIARE’s business rules.

It took 3 days to solve problems they’d been dealing with for 5–6 years.

“For us, that means spending less time navigating technology challenges and more time advancing our mission: expanding access to avalanche education and ultimately saving lives.”

Full story: https://t.co/QXL11VMukY

[Dominic Whyte @domwhyte42]

12 improvements we shipped to Zite this week:

1. Auto mode

Auto mode keeps building with fewer interruptions, automatically approving routine steps while stopping for sensitive actions.

2. See your active MCP connections

Zite now shows which 3rd party agents are connected to your workspace.

3. Manage MCP across your team

Admins can see when each agent connection was last used, which workspaces it can access, and revoke access when needed.

4. Connect integrations once per workspace

Connect Slack, Airtable and other integrations once, then use them across every app in your workspace. Secrets now work the same way, too.

5. Safer publishing

Zite now warns you before publishing if the change would affect who can access your app.

6. Better databases

Lookups can reference other lookups, formulas can display results as colored select chips, and Airtable imports now support up to 250,000 records.

7. Attio, Apollo + Typeform

Three new integrations are live. You can also request new integrations directly from the integration picker.

8. app.zite .com

The Zite dashboard and editor now live on the Zite domain.

9. Better workflow history

Workflow history now goes back 90 days instead of 7, with clearer errors and retry logic.

10. Search your whole workspace

Search now finds tables, people, roles and connections in a workspace, not just apps.

11. Builds survive interruptions

Builds interrupted by a deploy or network issue can now be resumed in one click.

12. Automatic model fallback

If Opus declines a request, Zite automatically retries with a fallback model instead of ending the build.

We have several major feature releases coming out next week in @zite, stay tuned.

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SQL in Zite Database 👇

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Zite Database now supports SQL. Here’s why this is a big deal:

SQL is the go-to language for querying databases. It makes it fast to calculate totals across millions of records, group data for a dashboard, or summarize for a report.

As Zite builds your app, it automatically writes SQL to make things faster.

You just describe what you want to build.

And this is real SQL. Not some proprietary offshoot (looking at you, Salesforce...).

Zite supports standard SQL syntax and works with all the data types in Zite Database, including linked records, rollups, user fields, etc.

In a lot of traditional SaaS tools, analysis means pulling all your records into a data warehouse first. With Zite, you can query the data directly from your apps, via the API, or through MCP.

And maybe most importantly: LLMs are REALLY good at writing SQL.

Now they can use it directly against the systems they build.

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Zite is now a verified connector in Claude

Connect Claude to Zite to build full apps, without using Zite AI credits.

Claude can write the code, work with your database, and deploy to Zite through MCP.

Just search for Zite in Claude’s connectors and connect your account.

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17 (!!) new integrations in Zite

📋 Jira, Asana, Monday and Trello
📧 Resend and Brevo
📱 Facebook Pages and LinkedIn
📊 Amplitude and ClickHouse
💰 Xero and QuickBooks*
💻 GitHub and Firecrawl
📅 Calendly and Google Forms
🎙️ ElevenLabs

*Quickbooks in beta until next week

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A bunch of improvements to Zite workspaces shipped this week:

👥 A new Users area to manage everyone across your workspace and apps

🗂️ Sections to organize workspaces by team, client, project, or however your teams work

🕓 An improved version history with screenshots, filters, and easier navigation

📦 Workspace export/import, so you can move complete projects between organizations