Connect to your box, ask your first question, ship your first app. Every guide assumes plain English is the only language you need.
Advanced examples
Each one is a working build on RapidDashboard and the story of how it was made. Use it like a product, then read how the data, the model and the screens fit together.
Live white paper · 2 min read
Any address in, a measured and priced roof out.
Type any address in WI, MN or FL. Watch it find the house, laser-measure the roof, build it in 3D and price it in seconds.
What it shows
Live white paper · 3 min read
Every exhibitor researched, one QR code away.
All 258 METALCON 2026 exhibitors researched before the doors open. Each booth gets a printed page and a QR code that lands on its live file, with a meeting one tap away.
What it shows
Live white paper · 4 min read
Find the savings, then find the clients that cost you.
Every vendor line taken apart and a cheaper way to run it costed, then every client graded on what it pays against the hours it takes. A fictional MSP, with the real app's screens.
What it shows
Live white paper · 3 min read
One question in, a full leadership dashboard out.
Every industry and role page as a working dashboard: KPIs, charts, the records behind them and an AI summary, each built from one plain-English question.
What it shows
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.
Fifteen minutes end to end: understand what you have, get connected, ask your first question.
What you have, what you can do with it, and which tool to reach for first.
5 minSSH keys, your box address, and the one-time config that every editor below relies on.
10 minFour ready-to-run prompts, plus the anatomy of a prompt that lands first try.
12 minCursor 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.
SSH keys, your box address, and the one-time config that every editor below relies on.
10 minThe supported path. One-click link, remote workspace, first prompt.
8 minAnthropic's terminal agent, running on the box so your data stays put.
8 minOpenAI's terminal agent, for teams already standardized on ChatGPT.
8 minRemote SSH for teams with an existing VS Code setup and extension policy.
8 minPick the model behind your prompts and keep an eye on what it costs.
6 minCopy 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.
Four ready-to-run prompts, plus the anatomy of a prompt that lands first try.
12 minCRM, job scheduler, and financial review, each as a staged build prompt.
15 minGet a key, store it safely, connect a source, and schedule the sync.
10 minWhen a build outgrows a folder, the Builder gives it its own Docker instance: separate database, separate URL, separate blast radius.
| 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.
Every RapidDashboard client gets direct access to the team that built the box. Most questions take under ten minutes on a call.
