Let AI Build It: Exploring Maia Make in Mendix

In my previous blog, we saw how **Maia Plan** turns ideas into requirements, epics, and user stories. But planning is just the first step. The real value comes when we build the application.

In this blog, we’ll look at Maia Make, an AI feature that uses your user stories to create domain models, pages, and microflows, helping you build your app faster

1. To begin with, open the application created using Maia Plan and click on Open in Studio Pro to launch the application in Mendix Studio Pro.

2. Once the application is launched, Maia Make allows developers to select the user stories generated from Maia Plan and use them as the foundation for application development.

Start with Maia

3. Based on the selected user stories, Maia Make automatically generates the domain model, including entities, attributes, and associations.

Maia Make

4. The generated entities can be reviewed and modified according to project requirements before proceeding further.

Domain Model

5. Maia Make helps generate application pages based on prompts, reducing the manual effort required for UI creation. The generated pages provide a ready-to-use UI structure that can later be customized according to business requirements.

Given Prompt: “Create an Overview page for the entity Train”

6. Based on the prompt provided in the chat window, Maia Make automatically creates both the Overview and New/Edit pages for the specified entity.

Overview Page

New Edit Page

7. Using AI capabilities, Maia Make can also generate microflows for handling application logic and process flow based on the selected user stories.

Given Prompt: “Create a custom microflow to save the train”

New Edit Page

Save Microflow without Validations

8. The generated microflows can be edited and enhanced further by adding additional business validations and conditions using detailed prompts.

Given Prompt: “Update this microflow to validate the train”

Save Microflow with Validations

9. Maia Make also provides smart recommendations and development suggestions that help accelerate implementation. Developers still retain full flexibility to modify the generated domain models, pages, and microflows whenever required.

10. In some cases, the generated pages, microflows, or nanoflows may require manual intervention to resolve validation errors or fine-tune the implementation. Maia Make can also suggest possible solutions for resolving such issues and may request developer confirmation before applying fixes automatically.

Microflows with errors

After resolving the issues-:

Microflows without errors

Overall, Maia Make helps developers build applications faster by generating domain models, pages, and microflows using AI. To get the best results, the prompt message should be clear and precise. Better prompts help Maia Make generate more accurate outputs with less manual effort.