AI-assisted application building
Describe it.
Test it. Publish it.
Workshop turns a clearly described business process into a focused app, deployed in your existing SharePoint environment, then guides your team through private testing and controlled publication.
Built for teams that want fast delivery of tools they own and control.
01 / THE PROBLEM
The small-app backlog
is still a backlog.
Every organization has work that matters too much for a spreadsheet and feels too small for a traditional software project. Workshop gives those needs a governed path into SharePoint.
02 / HOW IT WORKS
From need to useful app,
one clear step at a time.
Build
Describe the users, records, decisions, and outcomes. Add relevant files or SharePoint context when the work needs exact source material.
Test
Prepare a private SharePoint page, try the current version, and decide whether to refine the app or continue toward release.
Publish
Confirm the release page and data access, then publish the verified version for the intended SharePoint audience.
03 / ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES
Start with the work.
Build the missing tool.
These representative scenarios show the kinds of focused applications a team can shape in Workshop. Each begins with a plain-language prompt, then improves through real use and iteration.
Manufacturing intelligence
Make production performance visible.
The challenge
A manufacturer cannot easily tell which machines and shifts perform best on a particular job. Its ERP is slow to update and even harder to analyze, leaving supervisors to piece together machine, operator, order, and runtime data by hand.
What the team builds
A fast floor-entry app and operations dashboard that exposes machine and shift trends, shows which operators perform best on which equipment, and flags degraded performance for specific order types so future work can be costed more accurately.
Starting prompt
Build a SharePoint app for production supervisors to record each completed job by machine, shift, operator, order type, planned runtime, actual runtime, scrap, and downtime reason. Make floor entry take less than a minute. Show machine and shift trends, operator-machine fit, and flag degraded performance for similar orders. Add an estimating view that uses historical performance to adjust future job costs, starting with exports from our ERP.
Airport safety management
Turn incident tracking into resolution.
The challenge
A small airport tracks safety mishaps and OSHA submissions in spreadsheets. Incidents can be logged, but root-cause work is inconsistent and corrective actions are difficult to follow all the way to verified closure.
What the team builds
Over the course of a week, the airport describes and tests a purpose-built safety tool. It logs incidents, uses AI investigators to challenge assumptions and surface missing evidence, draws the causal analysis, recommends corrective actions, and tracks accepted actions through completion.
Starting prompt
Build a safety incident management app for a small airport. Let staff log mishaps with photos, location, severity, witnesses, and OSHA fields. Guide investigators through root-cause analysis, use AI investigators to challenge assumptions and suggest missing evidence, draw the causal chain, recommend corrective actions, and let us accept, assign, date, and track every action to verified closure. Replace our Excel tracker without losing export capability.
Vineyard planning
Optimize land, water, and every workday.
The challenge
A winery needs better crop-rotation and irrigation planning, but generic software does not fit the property and specialist consulting is expensive. The useful inputs already exist across satellite images, historical records, and operating spreadsheets.
What the team builds
The winery combines those sources in a tailored simulation and optimization tool, then iterates until it reflects the land and current agricultural science. It compares scenarios and produces practical daily and weekly task lists, with a representative result of 20% lower costs and 15% higher output.
Starting prompt
Build a vineyard planning and optimization app using our satellite imagery, block boundaries, crop history, soil and water data, and operating spreadsheets. Simulate crop-rotation and irrigation strategies, optimize land and water use, and produce daily and weekly task lists. Explain recommendations using current agricultural science, let us compare scenarios and override assumptions, and record actual outcomes so the model improves each season.
04 / TRUST BY DESIGN
Generated code is sandboxed and goes through a thorough security review.
Pierline separates creation from trust. Final artifacts move through configured source checks, independent review, signing, and exact-byte verification before Workshop hosts them inside a constrained runtime.
Independent validation
The complete release candidate is reviewed separately from the model that created it.
Verified release
Approval is bound to the exact artifact bytes and their deployment context.
Tenant governance
SharePoint and Entra remain the identity and authorization authorities.
05 / WORKSHOP TO HARBOR
One governed path,
shown end to end.
This is a real Workshop project moving from a plain-language request to a working app hosted by Harbor inside SharePoint. The screens below use a demonstration lawn-care application.
01
Describe it in Workshop
Start with the problem, not a specification.
Explain who needs the app, what they need to accomplish, and attach the files that give the work context.
02
Try it privately
Test, learn, and ask for the next change.
Workshop prepares a private SharePoint page so the team can use the current version before deciding to refine or release it.
03
Verify through Harbor
Release only the reviewed artifact.
At the release boundary, Harbor verifies the signed, independently reviewed artifact and its exact bytes before hosting it.
04
Use it in SharePoint
A focused app, ready for the intended team.
The finished application runs inside the organization’s Microsoft 365 environment with its familiar identity and permissions.
06 / BUILT FOR THE LONG TAIL
Focused apps for work
your team struggles with.
BRING ONE REAL PROCESS
See what it could become.
Bring a tracker, queue, checklist, or review log. Leave with a clear path from requirement to governed app.