Glide
Glide is an AI software development platform that turns spreadsheets, prompts, and business data into custom internal applications and automated workflows.
What is Glide?
Glide is a software development platform designed to build custom internal applications and tools from spreadsheets, files, or conversational prompts. It reads the structure, data, relationships, and logic behind spreadsheets and connected systems like Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Salesforce, and PostgreSQL to generate mobile and desktop apps. Applications share live data and support automated workflows, customizable user-level permissions, and integrated AI capabilities such as chat, summarization, and image generation. Glide provides hosted cloud infrastructure featuring AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 compliance, and single sign-on.
Key features
Converts spreadsheets into desktop and mobile applications by analyzing underlying structure, relationships, and logic.
Allows targeted component and interface modifications using conversational AI prompts.
Automates routine business operations and processes through custom workflow rules.
Connects external data sources and business platforms to keep applications synchronized without duplicating data.
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