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Install your foundation
Run Smartunit in your own environment and start with identity, permissions, data stores, and the automation engine already in place.
Self-hosted application platform
Build the product. Skip the plumbing.
Smartunit gives your technical team the identity, data, automation, APIs, and permissions every web application needs. Focus your time on the experience that makes your product different.
Single Docker container
Your data, your environment
Smartunit control room
Live
Identity
Email, Google, magic link
Data stores
Schemas ready in minutes
Automation
Visual business logic
Extensions
Publish custom React apps
Visual automation
New order workflow
Endpoint
POST /orders
Rule
Validate order
Data store
Save record
Action
Notify team
Users
284
Flows
18
Apps
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Product overview
See the whole idea in four minutes.
Smartunit becomes the foundation and control room for your digital products. This short walkthrough explains what your team gets out of the box and where your custom application fits in.
Identity Data Automation Extensions
Smartunit introduction
Product overview video / 04:00
Why Smartunit
The parts teams rebuild every time. Already handled.
Most custom apps begin with weeks of invisible setup before the product itself gets any attention. Smartunit changes the starting line so your developers can work on the experience your users will actually notice.
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Model your business
Define the records you need, wire up business rules visually, and expose API endpoints without assembling a new backend stack.
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Drop in your app
Package your purpose-built interface as an extension, publish it to a URL, and give each user exactly the access they need.
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Operate with confidence
Monitor automations, inspect failures, manage users, and use audit logs to understand what happened across your application.
From weeks to hours. Login, database, automation, and publishing infrastructure are available before the first line of business logic is written.
Explore the platformPlatform building blocks
Infrastructure underneath. Freedom on top.
Smartunit handles the repeated platform work without locking your team into a rigid template. Use the foundation, then shape the product around the way your business actually operates.
Identity and access
3 sign-in methodsUsers sign in. You stay in control.
Email, Google, and magic-link authentication are ready from day one. Assign roles so each user sees only the screens and data that belong to them.
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Data stores
Schema readyDefine your data in minutes.
Create the records your app needs through a simple interface. Skip the database boilerplate and start building against a real store.
Visual automation
Inspect every runConnect the logic like a diagram.
Wire business rules, schedules, integrations, and API responses together visually. When something fails, the monitoring screen shows you where.
Extension apps
React extensionsYour interface stays custom.
Publish purpose-built React applications inside Smartunit. Build them by hand or accelerate the work with AI-generated front-end code.
REST APIs
Expose internal endpoints without deploying another server or configuring a new framework.
Audit logs
Track user activity automatically when accountability and compliance matter.
Self-hosted
Keep full control of your data, deployment environment, and product roadmap.
What you can build
One platform. More than one kind of product.
Smartunit is useful when the application must fit your business instead of forcing your business into somebody else's SaaS template.
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Run the business
Internal backoffice tools
Order management panels, operations dashboards, moderation queues, approval workflows, and inventory trackers.
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Serve your users
Customer-facing applications
Membership portals, client reporting dashboards, and partner self-service tools with authentication already built in.
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Connect systems
Microservices and internal APIs
Receive data, validate it, call external services, write records, and respond through visual REST endpoints.
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Keep work moving
Scheduled and event-driven automation
Nightly syncs, weekly summaries, and triggered notifications without another deployment pipeline.
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Accelerate workflows
AI-powered tools
Add AI-provider calls to flows for classification, document summaries, or draft generation inside a real product.
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Learn faster
Working prototypes and MVPs
Stand up identity, data, automations, and a generated interface in an afternoon, then validate with real users.
Built for real teams
A working platform, ready to deploy.
Smartunit is not a prototype. It runs in a single Docker container, supports multiple sign-in methods, includes a full permission system, and has a visual automation engine used in production.
Platform and DevOps
Deploy Smartunit, manage the environment, and configure extensions.
Product teams
Build the React extension apps that end users interact with.
Operations and admin
Manage users, set up automations, and monitor activity.
Current fit: Smartunit is best suited to teams that want control and customisation. Supporting thousands of concurrent users would require additional infrastructure investment.
Start with Smartunit
Begin with one application. Keep the foundation.
Smartunit is built for teams that value control and customisation. Pricing depends on the deployment and the work you want to ship, so the first conversation stays practical.
Explore
Platform walkthrough
See how Smartunit fits your use case and identify the first application worth shipping.
- Focused product overview
- Architecture questions
- Use-case fit
Start
First working application
Launch one useful internal tool, portal, automation, or prototype on a real Smartunit instance.
- Self-hosted deployment
- One focused application
- A foundation you can extend
Scale
Custom platform rollout
Use Smartunit as the shared foundation for a broader set of products, APIs, and workflows.
- Deployment planning
- Extension strategy
- Team enablement
Frequently asked questions
A few useful answers before we talk.
Smartunit sits between a rigid SaaS tool and building every layer yourself. These are the questions that usually clarify where it fits.
Smartunit is a self-hosted application platform for building and launching custom web applications faster. It provides identity, data storage, permissions, visual automation, API endpoints, monitoring, and extension publishing so your team can focus on the product experience.
Smartunit works well for internal tools, operations dashboards, customer portals, partner applications, lightweight internal APIs, scheduled automations, AI-powered tools, and working MVPs. It is most useful when the application needs to fit your business closely.
No. Smartunit handles the infrastructure around your application while your team builds the purpose-specific interface as an extension. Extensions can be developed as React applications and can also be accelerated with AI-generated front-end code.
Smartunit is self-hosted and runs in a single Docker container. That gives your team control over the environment and the data. The current product is best suited to teams that want control and customisation. Supporting thousands of concurrent users would require additional infrastructure investment.
Yes. The visual flow editor can receive data, validate it, write to data stores, call external services, return REST responses, and run scheduled or event-driven jobs. Monitoring makes failures visible when they happen.
Yes. Smartunit does not bundle an AI model, but it provides the surrounding infrastructure an AI feature needs: users, permissions, data storage, schedules, APIs, and extension interfaces. A flow can call an external AI provider as one step in a larger workflow.
Start with one focused application or workflow. A walkthrough helps us map the use case, deployment environment, and first extension so you can evaluate Smartunit against a real need rather than a generic demo.