You could build it yourself. But the cost isn't writing the first version, it's owning it forever. Avo takes that off your plate, so your team can focus on the product your customers actually pay for.
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01 · the app behind the app
The first app is the product people pay for. The second is the internal tooling behind it: the admin panels, dashboards, and CRUD screens your team lives in. It's never finished, and no company ever won its market because the admin panel was great. Build it yourself and you carry two apps forever. Let Avo own the second one and you maintain a single app instead.
02 · "just have the LLM build it"
You don't just generate the code. You inherit it.
The first draft looks great in the demo. But generating the code isn't the expensive part, owning it is: the security holes you can't see, the correctness that looks right and isn't, the maintenance debt, and the guardrails an LLM never knows to add. When the model writes every line, someone still has to be the security reviewer, the QA, and the maintainer. That someone is you.
03 · where Avo comes in
Avo is the pre-LLM alternative where these decisions are already made, tested in production, and hardened across hundreds of teams. Select-all that means the whole query, not just the visible page. Confirmation on the actions that deserve it. The hundred small taste decisions that keep an admin safe to use. You're not hardening slop, you're building on a foundation.
You maintain one app instead of two.
Read the full storyUsing Avo is like bringing a new developer to your team that's building all the boring stuff in a beautiful way
Create a flexible CRUD interface in no time. No more copy-pasting view and controller files around.
Quickly query one or more resources at once.
Amazingly easy, single or multi-file integration with ActiveStorage.
Easily browse your data on mobile devices.
Run custom actions to one or more of your resources with as little as pressing a button 💪
Write your own custom filters to quickly segment your data.
Customize your dashboard with the tools and analytics you need.
Fully translated UI
Leverage Pundit policies to build a robust and scalable authorization system.
Configure your Rails dashboard entirely by writing Ruby code with minimal-to-no scaffolding.
No worries if we missed a field you need. Generate a custom field in a jiffy.
Scope out your data as much as you need it
Give your team a drag-and-drop board over any model, so work moves without leaving your admin.
Edit a record and its associations on one screen, so complex data entry takes a single save.
Let users set the order of records by dragging, and it sticks.
Fields that update live as users type, so forms react without a full page reload.
Let users build their own filter combinations on the fly, no code changes to add a new view.
Expose your admin to AI agents over MCP, so assistants can safely read and act on your data.
Our customers love Avo
Adding Avo to my project was like adding multiple developers to my team - and that's before I even purchased a license!
Avo has let me push further on the features my users benefit from most whilst trusting I am giving volunteer curators a backend experience I can still be proud of.
It's a real multiplier on the project and adopting it was undoubtedly the best technical decision we've made.
Avo just worked great. We were able to plug things together really easily, and it's given us the flexibility we needed to build out a really rich product
I would never build a custom admin panel in the future.
We wasted too much money and could not focus on our main business.
It was my first time using Avo, and I was impressed by how easy it was to get started and how good the user experience was. The benefits were clear right away, without needing a lot of setup. Avo supports developers in making the most out of Rails as a one-person framework!
I can't believe I just learned about Avo! After trying it for 10 minutes, it was the easiest purchase ever. I used RailsAdmin before and had so many upgrading issues. Besides that, Avo is so much simpler to configure and build.
We have used Avo as the admin dashboard for our event app to manage speakers and sessions for years. We work with early career devs on this app and Avo has saved them hours of work so they could focus on what's most important: the user experience.
I've spent time looking into solutions that complement a sensible modern stack that gets you to the point of focussing on the product you're building sooner and does not induce conceptual compression along the way.
Avo fits nicely into that stack.
I often think of it as... just having in-house designer, a front end, and a full stack. And AVO just gives you this with a very nice DSL where you just save time. So that's what's nice about it. Every time you use it, you save time
We are migrating from ActiveAdmin to Avo and both in terms of Developer experience and User experience, it is a game changer!
I just wanted to say I love working with Avo in RubyGems.org
Avo has allowed the RubyGems.org team to build internal tools incredibly quickly, which is especially important due to our limited resources
We are heavily used Avo Pro in order to build a new "admin first" platform that can be managed by our non-tech team with ease.
The interface is extremely intuitive and can be extended fast with custom actions.
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