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How do I build a CRM with App Factory

Open App Factory, press Web App (SaaS) and choose CRM on the screen “Where do we start?”. You answer four short questions, and an AI agent fits a ready CRM block — clients, deals, tasks and forms — to your business.

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Open App Factory, press Web App (SaaS) and choose CRM on the screen “Where do we start?”. You answer four short questions, and an AI agent fits a ready CRM block — clients, deals, tasks and forms — to your business.

Steps

  1. Open Create an appOpen App Factory in Apiway. The first screen is Create an app. — open in Apiway
  2. Press Web App (SaaS)Under Template categories press Web App (SaaS).
  3. Who is the app for?Choose For me or my team (the app lives inside Apiway; you and your people sign in) or For clients (a product on your own domain; people sign up and pay).
  4. Where do we start?Choose CRM. From scratch is any web app in your own words; its one question is Describe your app.
  5. Answer the CRM questionsWhat do you sell?, The stages of your funnel (the stages are suggested; correct what differs), Where do leads come from? and Who works in the CRM?. Each has an example; Skip leaves an optional one empty.
  6. SummaryHere's what I understood lists your answers. Edit changes a line. Press Launch.
  7. Who buildsOn How will you build the app? pick External agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, DeepSeek Harness), External chats (ChatGPT Work, Claude) or Apiway AI Agent and press Next.
  8. Give the taskOn the task screen press Copy task and paste it into your agent, or press the button that opens the agent. Then press Open the app's page.
  9. Preview and publishThe agent sends its work to the Preview; only you see it. When it is right, press Publish.

Limits and cost

WhatValue
Free planUp to 5 apps in work; the preview lives 30 days from the first one
Any paid planUnlimited apps, publishing to the app's own address, access for your team and your clients, always on
CostThe brief is free. Your own agent builds for free in Apiway. Apiway AI Agent builds on a paid plan and spends credits. Publishing is on any paid plan
Emails, SMS and AI inside your appPaid in credits

If it did not work

  • The CRM is filled with examples: They show how it works. Delete the example data when you publish, or ask your agent to remove it.
  • You need another funnel: Tell your agent. Or use Edit on Summary before the launch.

Questions and answers

Is the CRM a separate product?

No. It is an app of yours, hosted by Apiway, that your agent can keep changing.

Who can sign in?

On the Free plan only you. On a paid plan you choose in Who can open it?: My workspace, Team workspace or Public.

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