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Quickstart

Build and deploy your first app end to end — a working tip calculator — in a few minutes.

This Quickstart walks the whole pipeline with one small, real example. You'll describe a tip calculator in a sentence, watch the agents specify, build, and deploy it, and open the finished app at its own URL — with a human approval at every irreversible step, the same governance every project gets.

Build a tip calculator, start to finish#

1
Create a project

From the home screen, choose New Project.

The Amira home screen with the New Project button
2
Describe the app

Type a one-line description and send it. For this example:

Build a tip calculator: 15/18/20% preset buttons plus a custom tip, round the total up to the nearest cent, and split the bill N ways to show the per-person amount.

The Spec Agent drafts a first specification from that one sentence.

Describing the tip calculator to the Spec Agent on a new project
3
Iterate with the Spec Agent

The agent turns your sentence into functional requirements (FRs), non-functional requirements (NFRs), and testable acceptance criteria (ACs), then asks focused questions to close anything missing. Answer in plain language until it reports the spec is complete. A tip-calculator requirement looks like this:

{
  "id": "FR-2",
  "title": "Calculate the per-person total",
  "acceptance_criteria": [
    "With a $100 bill, an 18% tip, split 4 ways, each person owes $29.50",
    "The total is always rounded up to the nearest cent"
  ]
}

See Working with Specs for how the interview works and how to ground the agent with your own documents.

The spec workspace showing the tip-calculator functional requirements
4
Route for e-signature

When the spec is complete, choose Route for e-signature. Once it's signed, the spec is locked and the Build Agent can start — nothing is built from an unapproved spec. See E-signature & Approval.

Routing the completed specification for e-signature
5
Build

The Build Agent writes the application in a sandbox, wiring in any skills and data sources the spec references. Its progress is scored against your acceptance criteria on a live compliance matrix, so you can watch each requirement move from pending to passing.

The compliance matrix scoring every requirement against a real check during the build
6
Deploy

With approval, the Deploy Agent promotes the built application to a running URL of its own.

Deploying the built application through the governed deploy flow
7
Open your app

Open the deployed tip calculator and use it — enter a bill, pick a tip, split it, and read off the per-person total.

The running tip calculator: a $100 bill at 18% split 4 ways shows $29.50 per person
What you just did

From a single sentence you produced a specified, approved, built, and deployed application — with a human sign-off at every irreversible step and every requirement checked against its acceptance criteria. The same flow scales from a tip calculator to a full analytics application.

Where to next#