Live Apps
Build a live app
What a live app is, and how to build one by describing it, approving its data, picking a look and saving it.
Think of a live app as a wall display for your business that builds itself. You describe what you want to see — "how are sales going", "what did my agents do this week" — and the AI builds a real, clickable app on your own data. Then it stays current on its own: every number recomputes from the source each time you open it or hit refresh.
- Northwind TradersPaid · 2h ago$3,200
- Acme SuppliesPending · 5h ago$1,840
A report is a photograph — true the day it was made. A live app is a window. Nothing in it is typed in or pasted; every value is fetched from where it actually lives: your Nirvai work, your connected services and your own databases, mixed in one view.
"Build me an app showing what my agents did this week — conversations by channel, which automations ran, and what it all cost in credits." Everything in that sentence is already in your account.
Live App or Chat App?
Both are built by AI, and they solve different problems.
| Live App | Chat App | |
|---|---|---|
| Lives | In its own Live Apps section, saved for good | Beside one chat conversation |
| Data | Re-fetched from your tools every refresh | The data of that conversation |
| Best for | Something you'll open again next week | A one-off answer you want to click through |
| Sharing | With your organization | A public link |
How building works
Building one is like briefing a designer who already has the keys to your filing cabinet. You say what you want to see; they go and look at what you actually have, come back with a plan, show you three looks, and only then build it. You approve at every step, and nothing is saved until you say so.
Before you start
- The more of Nirvai you already use — agents, databases, automations — the more there is to build on. You need nothing connected at all to build on your own Nirvai data.
- To pull in an outside service (a store, an ad account, a CRM), it needs a saved connection first. See Credentials.
Step 1 — Describe it
Go to Live Apps in the sidebar and click Create with AI. Type what you want in plain words:
"An app showing my Shopify sales this month, top products, and which of my agents closed the most conversations."
Say what you want to know, not how to lay it out — the look comes later. If you'd rather not start from scratch, three starter ideas (a sales dashboard, an ops monitor, a content gallery) are one click away, or you can start from a template.
Step 2 — Approve the plan
The AI looks at what you have and comes back with Proposal ready. Click Review sources and you'll see exactly which data it intends to use, grouped by kind, with a one-line explanation of the app it has in mind.
- ShopifyOrders, products and revenue from your storeConnected tool
- CustomersYour own table of accounts and their ownersDatabase
- Agent conversationsConversations your agents had, by channelNirvai data
- Meta AdsAd spend to compare against revenueAdd Meta Ads credential
Anything you haven't connected shows up as a to set up row with a button that takes you where to fix it. You don't have to: Build with what I have skips it, and you can add it later.
The sources you approve here are the only data the app will ever touch. It's the app's permission list — so check it, then approve it.
Step 3 — Pick a look
Next comes Look ready. The AI designs three different directions for your app — not three shades of the same thing, but three genuinely different personalities, each with its own colours, typefaces and shape. If you have a brand, it uses your real logo and colours.
You can pick one, or just say what you'd rather have — "the calm one, but in our blue" — and it re-designs. The look is only a skin: changing it later never touches your data.
Step 4 — Preview, then save
The AI writes the app, runs it against your real data (never a made-up example), and tests it — at desktop and phone width, and with empty and failing data — before showing you anything. When it passes, you get Live app ready with a working Preview.
Click through it. When you're happy, hit Save live app and it becomes a permanent app with its own page.
While you're building, the app lives in the builder as a draft. You'll find unsaved drafts under In progress on the Live Apps page, and you can pick them up where you left off — or discard them.
Changing it later
Open the app and click Edit with AI. You can ask for anything in words — but the faster way is to point at what's wrong.
Turn on Tweak in the preview, then click any part of the app. Each element you click gets pinned with a note box. Write what should change; the app sends all your notes together as one instruction, so it makes every change in one pass instead of one at a time.
- 1KPIRevenue overview“$42.6k”panel › kpi-rail › kpi-vShow last month underneath so I can compare.
- 2ChartRevenue by week“Revenue by week”panel › chartMake this monthly instead of weekly.
- 3TableRecent orders“Northwind Traders”panel › table › rowWhat should change here? (required)
Every pinned element needs a comment before you can send — that's deliberate, since an element with no note tells the AI nothing.
Troubleshooting
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A source is listed as to set up | The app wants a service you haven't connected | Add the connection, or build without it and add it later |
| The AI asks you a question mid-build | It needs one detail it can't guess (which store, which period) | Answer it — you can reopen your answer with Answer again |
| It's still building after several minutes | It's testing against your real data, which takes time on big accounts | Let it finish; you can leave and resume from In progress |
| The preview shows an error | A data step failed while rendering | Use Fix with AI — it reopens the builder with the error already explained |
| You want to start over | Restart clears the session's drafts and messages. Apps you already saved are kept |