What is Anybuild

Anybuild is a Model-Driven Platform for Business Systems. It is built to produce production-ready applications - complete with security, workflows, and reporting - without the slow rebuild cycles of traditional custom software, and without giving up the structure and governance that traditional low-code and AI app builders tend to sacrifice for speed.

Anybuild is built and operated by Onedb Online Ltd and Onedb Service Delivery Ltd. It grew out of an earlier project to build a next-generation, adaptable ERP and CRM (Onedb Smartsuite) entirely on top of a single database - over 120,000 hours of R&D went into the tools needed to build that system fast enough. Those tools became Anybuild.

Two product layers

Anybuild Creator is the build environment - the Designer where applications are specified, modelled, and evolved. This guide is about Creator.

Anybuild Server is the governed runtime underneath every application Creator produces: hosting, security, permissions, APIs, and data. Every application gets its own dedicated PostgreSQL database - there is no shared multi-tenant data store, which is part of why Anybuild’s security model can be stricter than typical SaaS platforms.

Model-driven, not just AI-assisted

A lot of platforms describe themselves as “AI app builders.” Anybuild is different in one important respect: AI accelerates the work, but the model - the data model, the rules, the structure - is what actually governs the running application. AI generates; the model is what is enforced at runtime. Changes that violate the model’s structure or rules are rejected, whether they came from a person, the platform’s own AI, or an external AI tool like Cursor or Claude Code.

This is what makes applications evolve in place rather than need to be rebuilt every time requirements change. The model is the system, not a description of it.

The application lifecycle

Every application built on Anybuild goes through the same four phases:

Specify - describe what the application should do, either as a short prompt, a detailed written specification, or an uploaded requirements document.
Model - review and refine the data model the AI generates from the specification, using an interactive entity relationship diagram.
Generate - the platform builds a complete, working application from the model: database, forms, navigation, security, login screen, all of it.
Evolve - keep building in the Designer: add business logic, adjust the UI, configure security, connect external data - without ever leaving the governed model behind.

The rest of this guide follows that lifecycle, starting with how to actually run through it for a new application.