Plan your app via prompt

Aim: Plan your app to translate a business requirement into a structured, step-by-step development plan that you can review, adjust, and approve before Naia Build writes a single line of code.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the AI experience panel, select the Chat tab.

  2. Enter your high-level goal prompt.

    Building an app without a defined plan risks misaligned output that requires multiple corrective iterations to resolve. Entering a prompt that asks Naia Build to produce a detailed plan of action separates requirements definition from execution, allowing you to validate Naia Build’s interpretation of your application before any UI or logic is generated.

    Example prompt: I would like to create a field service application for technicians. Can you outline a basic plan for me about how you will proceed? Technicians should be able to view assigned work orders, update work order status, capture a customer signature on completion, and scan a QR code to identify equipment. The app needs to work offline when there is no mobile signal.

  3. Review the generated plan.

    Naia Build will respond with a structured plan listing the application flow, pages, components, data models, API connections, and logic steps it intends to build, and may ask follow-up questions to further refine the planning process. Read the generated plan carefully. The plan is the contract between your requirement and the generated output.

  4. Edit the plan before building by inspecting individual elements via mouseover and click, modifying sections via chat according to requirement.

    Enter prompts to make any modifications to the plan, for example, the removing of steps that are out of scope, reordering of pages/flows, adding requirements Naia missed.

    Before prompting in chat, write down your data entities and their key fields first. Pasting a short data model summary into your prompt dramatically improves plan accuracy and reduces the number of review cycles needed.

    See our Prompting guidelines for best practices when prompting Naia Build.

  5. Verify that the AI-generated plan of action is build-ready.

Result

  • Your application’s scope, data model, and requirements are defined and validated with Naia Build via chat. Generation can proceed from a clear, agreed foundation.

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