Retool AI

Developing custom internal applications and integrating AI capabilities can often feel like a slow, resource-intensive process, pulling your development team away from core product work. Retool provides a comprehensive platform designed for developers to build these crucial internal tools, AI-driven applications, and automated workflows with remarkable speed and precision. Imagine empowering your support, operations, and engineering teams with software tailored exactly to their needs, built in hours or days, not weeks or months.

Retool is trusted by companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, Stripe, and OpenAI, to streamline operations and enhance productivity.

Key Capabilities to Accelerate Your Development

Retool equips you with a robust set of features to bring your internal applications and automations to life efficiently:

• 🏗️ Construct Polished UIs Rapidly: Assemble interfaces using over 100 extensible React components. Drag and drop for speed, then dive into the full IDE to customize behavior and appearance, ensuring your apps align perfectly with your brand’s style guide.

• 🔗 Connect to Virtually Any Data Source: Query and write data using dozens of built-in connectors for databases (SQL, NoSQL), third-party SaaS services (like Salesforce, Zendesk), and anything with a REST, GraphQL, or gRPC API.

• 💻 Embrace Code-First Customization: Write JavaScript or SQL almost anywhere within the platform. This gives you granular control over your application's logic, data manipulation, and user experience, moving beyond the limitations of typical low-code solutions.

• 🤖 Integrate AI Seamlessly into Apps & Workflows: Leverage Retool AI to connect to LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more. Utilize Retool Vectors to make your business data instantly usable with any LLM for RAG applications. Add pre-built AI actions for text generation, summarization, image analysis, and code generation directly into your tools.

• ⚙️ Automate Complex Processes with Visual Workflows: Design, build, and deploy automated backend processes using Retool Workflows. Trigger workflows via cron schedules, API calls, or webhooks. Write custom Python or JavaScript logic, and connect to any data source, all within a visual canvas with robust debugging.

• 🛡️ Deploy Securely and Flexibly: Ship your applications with confidence. Integrate your Identity Provider (IdP) for SSO, manage access with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and data-level permissions. Choose to deploy in Retool’s secure cloud or self-host on your own infrastructure (VPC) for complete data control.

See Retool in Action: Practical Use Cases

1. Building Robust Admin Panels in Minutes: Your support team needs a unified view to manage customer data scattered across multiple systems. With Retool, you can quickly build a comprehensive admin panel that pulls data from your production database, CRM, and payment processor. Features like built-in table components, forms, and charts allow you to display information clearly and enable actions like updating user records or issuing refunds, all secured with your existing SSO and permission systems. For instance, an e-commerce company could build a panel for their support agents to look up order details, process returns, and manage customer accounts from a single interface.

2. Developing Custom AI-Powered Content Moderation Tools: Your platform hosts user-generated content and requires efficient moderation. Using Retool AI, you can build an internal tool that connects to an image recognition LLM and a text analysis model. New content submissions are automatically flagged by the AI if they violate guidelines. Human moderators then review these flagged items within a Retool app, which displays the content, the AI's reasoning, and provides simple buttons to approve or reject, significantly speeding up the moderation workflow while maintaining accuracy.

3. Automating End-of-Day Sales Reporting & Slack Notifications: Your sales operations team manually compiles daily sales figures from your database and Salesforce, then messages key stakeholders. With Retool Workflows, you can create a scheduled job that runs every evening. The workflow queries your PostgreSQL database for new sales, pulls relevant opportunity data from Salesforce via its API, aggregates the information, formats a summary report, and then posts it to a designated Slack channel, ensuring everyone stays informed without manual intervention.

Empower Your Team with Custom-Built Solutions

Retool isn't just about building tools; it's about enabling your teams to operate more effectively. By providing a platform where developers can rapidly create and iterate on custom internal applications, AI-enhanced tools, and automated workflows, you unlock new levels of productivity and operational efficiency. You get the speed of low-code development with the power and flexibility that professional developers demand.

As Rohan Chopra, Director of Engineering at DoorDash, notes, "Retool helped us…by making tools a quick and painless part of any project, saving us countless hours of operator and engineering time."