Describe your business, and check Divvent understood it

Divvent starts from your words. You say what your business does, the AI proposes an application for it, and you check what it understood on the What it is screen. If something is wrong, you correct it from there.

Describe your business

When you create an application, the first question is What does the business do? Answer it the way you would explain your business to a new member of staff:

• who your customers are;
• what you keep track of (jobs, bookings, orders, pets, properties);
• what happens day to day, and who does what.

For example: "We are a dog grooming salon with three groomers. Customers book their dog in for a groom or a nail clip. We keep each dog's details, any allergies, and which groomer they like. The front desk takes bookings and payments."

You can write up to 4,000 characters. You don't need to use any special words, and you don't need to get it perfect: the AI asks about anything it needs to know.

If you have already made an application without a description, open Changes. Until there is a first version, that screen is called Describe the business and the box asks What does it do?

What happens next

Your description is sent as your first change. One of three things comes back:

• A template. If your business works like one of Divvent's templates, you're offered that as a start. You approve it like any other change, then change anything in it. If it isn't right, reply on the change's page and say what the business is instead. A first version is then written from scratch.
• A question. The AI may ask one thing before it proposes anything, often with a few answers to choose from. Pick one, or say it in your own words, then press Answer.
• A first version. The AI proposes the records your application keeps, who uses it, its pages and what runs on its own. It is saved as a change, and you read it before anything is built. See Read a change and approve it.

On a new account, our team reviews a first version written by the AI before it is made. Installing a template is always yours to approve.

Each answer the AI gives counts against your account's AI budget. See Ask for a change.

Check what Divvent understood

Open your application and choose What it is. It has three parts.

The story of your business

At the top is a paragraph describing your business, written by the AI and approved by you. Under it are six short sections:

• Who they serve
• What they do, and how work moves through it
• Who does what
• How money comes in
• What they keep about people
• Who they connect to

This describes the shape of your business. It never includes your customers' details or your figures.

What is built

Next is What is built, which lists what your application actually does:

• Records it keeps, such as Customer, Job or Booking;
• Who uses it: the roles, such as Office or Engineer;
• What it does on its own: each flow, and when it runs;
• Who it connects to: each connected service, and which fields are sent to it;
• Personal and financial data: which records are about people or money, and what erasing a person clears.

Read the story and What is built side by side. If the story says you take deposits but nothing about payments is built, that's worth asking about.

In detail

In detail gives a one-line summary, then counts of records, roles, pages, flows, actions and notifications. A table lists every record with how many fields and links it has, and what kind of data it holds: personal data, financial, health data, children's personal data or none. Records about people are marked.

If a record has no rule saying who may see it, a warning names it. Nobody can see that record until you ask for a change that gives the right roles access.

The whole screen is read from your newest version, which may not be the one that is live yet. Releases shows what is running. The screen only ever shows names and descriptions, never what is stored in your application.

Correct it with Is this right?

If something on What it is is wrong or missing, press Is this right?. It opens Changes with the start of a correction already in the box. Finish the sentence in your own words, for example: "…It should say: we also do mobile grooming visits, and customers pay after the groom, not before."

Nothing is sent until you press Ask. A correction is then a change like any other: the AI proposes it, and you read it and approve it.

Only editors, admins and owners see Is this right?. Viewers and finance approvers see a note that one of them can make the correction.

When the story changes

The story of your business is changed only by a change someone approves. It is never rewritten quietly.

When a change adds, removes or renames a record, a role, a flow or a connection, the AI usually proposes an updated story alongside it. That shows on the change's page as a line starting It rewrites what Divvent understands the business to be, and the whole new story is in the change's details. If a change moves something in your business but doesn't update the story, the answer on Changes says so. Ask for the story to be updated too if it should be.