Meet the Henry Ford of App Development Who is Using Human-Assisted AI to Disrupt the Status Quo

The #BuilderGeneration series tells the stories of the builders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who pushed the boundaries of conventional thinking in order to bring their ideas to fruition.

A game-changing idea, conceptualized by an inspired individual—this is how every driving force of innovation and progress amidst our world begins. With hard work, passion, and dedication, every dream deserves the chance to see the sun, and every dreamer deserves to fulfill their own potential by being able to see that through.

These are their stories.

There’s no arguing the fact that cars changed the way people lived, worked, traveled, but few realized that the process of manufacturing automobiles had an equally significant impact on the industry.

In 1913, Henry Ford combined interchangeable parts with subdivided labor and fluid movement of materials to create his moving assembly line in. The resulting productivity gains and price cuts led manufacturers of every type to adopt Ford’s innovative production methods. It revolutionized the automobile industry and the concept of manufacturing worldwide.

Fast forward to the world we live in today, where technology changes so fast it’s impossible to keep up. Innovation happens every day around us, and good ideas can come from anywhere, at any time of the day. Experts claim that the human mind thinks around 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s quite a fantastic machine we have between our ears. The good news is that you only need ONE grand idea to become the next Bill Gates or Elon Musk.  

How many of you had a brilliant idea but weren’t able to create an app for it just because you know you don’t know jack about programming? In 2017 nearly $530 Billion was spent by organizations and individuals to develop bespoke software. But, sadly, 78% of them failed.

Getting an idea is a natural part. The hard part is to develop an app for it. Because software development is one of the most tedious things that you will do in your life. Previously, it was like making a Pizza without all the ingredients.

Meet Sachin Dev Duggal, Co-founder of Builder (previously known as Engineer.ai). He began with a simple vision in mind:

“I believe that everyone should be empowered to unlock their true potential in being a Builder, irrespective of what they know, what they have and what they are afraid of. In everything we do, we believe in pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking; to look at every problem differently and from the ground up.”

Sachin Dev Duggal

Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator, a serial entrepreneur, and a passionate engineer. He had a dream of making a platform that can extract an app idea from the human mind and bring it to life more effectively than the traditional development process.

It’s this core mission that acts as the foundational ethos of the Builder product itself: the creation of a human-assisted AI platform that allows users to build, run and scale their custom-made software, transcending the need for traditional tech knowledge, increasing the efficiency of resources, and creating a transparent end to end process that caters to a project’s entire life-cycle.

Developing an app should be as easy as ordering a pizza online. Just select the custom ingredients and let the human-assisted AI assembly line do the rest.

Sachin says that in just four easy steps, you can bring your idea to life in the Builder Studio:

1. Decide what you want to build: Select similar applications to yours

2. Pick your functionalities: Drag and drop which functions you would like. You can add or delete them as you go.

3. Choose your timeline: Dictate the team, speed of build and payment options that will give you the software you want, when you want it.

4. Build your idea: You’ve got the spec. Now you’re ready to bring it to life.

The most fantastic thing about Builder is that you don’t have to wait for any human to estimate data, price, or the flow chart of the app. Everything is done via human-assisted AI. Whether you want to generate a flow chart, determine the pricing of the app, or even ensure that you are moving in the right direction, Builder will take care of everything.

A noteworthy thing about the whole process is that the customer will learn a lot about software and technical stuff while talking to the engineers. The top-notch engineers, designers, and developers will take the app development process and raise the bar to the next level. It is not just about developing an app; it is about educating the customer about how things work and what they can expect.

Sachin says that Builder isn’t just big brands. They are seeing everyone use it from ski-instructor to dentists.