Turn any Computer into a production application with versioning, custom domains, SSO access, and per-user permissions, with access included in Athena services.
A Fortune 500 retailer provisioned 10,000 employees, included in Athena services, replacing a per-seat AI assistant with 500 prepaid licenses on the shelf.
The team that builds the agent is small. The people who should benefit are the whole company, plus clients, plus wholesalers who will never get a login to anything internal.
Buying a seat for everyone makes that arithmetic hard. Low-code app builders make it ugly. Custom builds make it slow.
The many should not need a seat to use what the few built.
Build on a Computer asset. Athena writes the app, NextJS, FastAPI, or your stack, against your data with your connectors. You watch the preview.
Promote to an Application. Each promotion is an immutable version. Staging gets its own URL you can send to a reviewer.
Provision access. Public link, workspace, or SSO group. Custom domain pointed to your Application via DNS CNAME. Guests authenticate through your IdP or a link.
Operate. Roll back in one action. Analytics by user, version, and cost. The agent inside runs as the person using it.
Apps. A full virtual machine per project with coding agents preinstalled. Describe an app, watch it get built, promote it to your people or your clients.
| Capability | People can | Agents can | Together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Describe the app, review the preview and the code, promote it to production. | Write, test, and fix the code; ship new versions to staging. | Nothing reaches users until a person promotes it. Rollback is one click. |
Anything a person can do here, an agent can do with the same permissions, and both land in the same audit trail.
These are not three products. They are one thing at three stages.
Computer | Application | Portal | |
|---|---|---|---|
What it is | Where it is built. A sandboxed machine with files, code, a database, a browser, a web server | The Computer promoted to production. Immutable versions, staging, rollback, custom domain | An Application whose audience is outside your directory |
Who uses it | The builder and the agent building for them | Your employees, by SSO group. Included in Athena services. | Clients, wholesalers, counterparties, by guest identity. Included in Athena services |
State | Mutable. Snapshot per message; undo | Versioned. Promote and roll back | Versioned. Per-room isolation; upload, submit, accept controls |
Identity | Owner | Each signed-in user, permissions inherited live | Guest through your IdP or a link; sees only their room |
Example | The agent building the KAM dashboard from six spreadsheets | The 10,000-user company AI assistant | The audit intake room clients called the "Uber tracker" |
Read the child pages for depth: Computers for the build environment and snapshots; Portals for the client-facing controls.
A white-labeled AI assistant over email, documents, chat, and the data warehouse, provisioned by directory group, rolling to 10,000 employees at a Fortune 500 retailer. Saved runs and a proactive daily agenda make it sticky on day two.
Uploads against a checklist, comments, read receipts, live matter or engagement status. External clients use it without an Athena license. An audit team replaced a SharePoint-backed portal with one.
A key-account manager uploads five or six cross-referenced Excel files and gets one view. Included in Athena services. Built for a beverage sales team.
Each partner sees only its own rows. Same app, thousands of tenants.
Ours runs on an Application asset. An agent maintains it: copy, images, and code changed by describing the change, staged, reviewed, promoted.
“It's good to understand the capability of the platform. That how far, and how quickly you guys can get these things going [...] that has been impressive overall.”
“The tools have way more capacity than we have the mindset to maximize them at this stage, but, you know, that's a good problem to have.”
“The developer platform that Athena comes up with [...] basically unlocks the next level engineering productivity.”
“It's insane the level that you guys are working at speed wise. And it's incredible. You guys are awesome.”
“I can't believe how far you've come in this short period of time. So it's really impressive.”
“We were able to replicate that in, like, five minutes, I think, which is pretty telling.”
“It would absolutely be, like, practice altering, right, in terms of what could be done.”
“Does look pretty much very impressive compared to everything else that we're exploring.”
“Don't try and build a product. Just take the platform and go and deliver this audit.”
“Essentially the Office suite of products with an AI directly embedded in it.”
Verbatim from customer calls. Customers anonymized.
Agents for the ad hoc. Workflows (Agent Operating Procedures) for the recurring. Applications for the many. The same primitives, the same permissions, the same audit trail.
The agent inside an Application acts as the signed-in user. Source-system permissions inherited live; nothing copied.
Immutable versions; promote and roll back with zero downtime.
Custom domain and customer SSO; seatless viewers.
Deploy in your VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped with managed-cloud parity.
Applications are not a drag-and-drop builder. You describe the app, the agent writes it, and someone reviews code and preview. Some business users would prefer drag-and-drop widgets; we chose reviewable code for quality and auditability.
Internal tools, assistants, dashboards, and client portals, built by agents together with your team.
Anyone you grant access to by directory group, and external guests by invitation, with access included in Athena services.
Every release is a version with a staging preview and one-step rollback.
Yes. The code can be exported to your own repository.
Records every change by a person or an agent, rolls back one contributor's edits without losing anyone else's, and keeps the model, instructions, and sources behind each agent action.
How the platform is deployed: Athena's managed cloud, your cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure, on-prem, air-gapped, or GovCloud. Same platform in every option.
Build, Work, and Data on top; 150+ connectors and every surface in and out; one map of the whole platform.
We will build the first version with you and hand over the repo.