Everything you can build, and how to build it.
Connect to your box, ask your first question, ship your first app. Every guide assumes plain English is the only language you need.
Where these guides pick up. The RapidDashboard team has securely connected your data lakes to your box, and you are ready to build your first dashboard. Everything before that point lives in Deployment.
Your box is a private build environment sitting next to your own data. You talk to it through an AI editor on your laptop, describe what you want in plain English, and it writes the dashboard or the app. These guides cover the connection, the vocabulary, and the prompts that get the best results.
Start here
Fifteen minutes end to end: understand what you have, get connected, ask your first question.
Getting started
What you have, what you can do with it, and which tool to reach for first.
5 minConnect to your box
SSH keys, your box address, and the one-time config that every editor below relies on.
10 minQuick start: build a dashboard
Four ready-to-run prompts, plus the anatomy of a prompt that lands first try.
12 minStart here
Connect your tools
Cursor is the supported path and the one our team can screen-share into fastest. Claude Code, Codex, and VS Code all work, and teams already standardized on one of those can keep it.
Connect to your box
SSH keys, your box address, and the one-time config that every editor below relies on.
10 minConnect with Cursor
The supported path. One-click link, remote workspace, first prompt.
8 minConnect with Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal agent, running on the box so your data stays put.
8 minConnect with Codex CLI
OpenAI's terminal agent, for teams already standardized on ChatGPT.
8 minConnect with VS Code
Remote SSH for teams with an existing VS Code setup and extension policy.
8 minUsing Rapid.Coder
Pick the model behind your prompts and keep an eye on what it costs.
6 minPrompt library
Copy a prompt, paste it into your editor's chat panel, edit the parts in <angle brackets> to match your business. Each one is written to produce something useful on the first run and get sharper from there.
Quick start: build a dashboard
Four ready-to-run prompts, plus the anatomy of a prompt that lands first try.
12 minQuick build: ship an app
CRM, job scheduler, and financial review, each as a staged build prompt.
15 minAPI integrations
Get a key, store it safely, connect a source, and schedule the sync.
10 minBuilder
When a build outgrows a folder, the Builder gives it its own Docker instance: separate database, separate URL, separate blast radius.
How to read these guides
| When you see | It means |
|---|---|
<your-client-code> |
Replace the whole thing, angle brackets included, with the value your coach gave you. |
| A gold-topped prompt card | Copy it whole and paste it into your editor's chat panel. The Copy button puts it on your clipboard. |
| A dark code block | Run it in a terminal: PowerShell on Windows, Terminal on a Mac. |
| A dashed Confirm with your coach box | Something specific to your deployment that we set during your build. Ask us and we will fill it in. |
New to the box entirely? The physical unboxing, power, and network steps live on the Box Setup Guide. Come back here once the indicator lights are on.
Talk to a human instead.
Every RapidDashboard client gets direct access to the team that built the box. Most questions take under ten minutes on a call.