Admins are managing more requests than ever, and let’s be honest, it’s getting harder to keep pace. Turning business ideas into production-ready apps and agents takes time. You’re constantly stitching together features, navigating complex data models, and toggling between Setup and different builders. At the end of the day, it means that you can’t keep up with all of the requests from across your business, and face an ever-growing backlog.
But what if there was a way to build faster, with a single prompt window for all your work? This is the question we asked ourselves when creating Builder Central.
In this post, we’ll walk through how Builder Central differs from the Setup with Agentforce and building tools you already use, how it keeps your organization safe, and how to get started with the beta.
Builder Central is our new no-code experience that lets you build and deploy apps and agents using plain language. It serves as a single hub for everything from simple admin tasks to complex end-to-end agent solutions.
Builder Central lets you leverage AI to build on Salesforce, without having to use a separate tool. All of your data stays on the platform you trust. And better yet, Builder Central already knows your existing Salesforce orgs and all of the business context and configuration within them. Solutions that it creates automatically use that native understanding of your business to be more tailored to your specific organization and more effective for your users. And because it understands your existing security and permissions, new apps and agents inherit those controls.
If you’ve used Setup with Agentforce, you know it’s fantastic for direct administration tasks. When you tell it to create a field, it makes that change directly in your org. Builder Central is designed for complex building tasks like creating full data models, flows, and agents.
Builder Central replaces disjointed setup menus with a unified, AI-guided experience. It lets you build at the speed of your thoughts. Here is how it helps you work faster:
It’s important to note that Builder Central complements but does not replace other building tools across Salesforce like Flow Builder, Lightning App Builder, or Agentforce Builder. It will create and connect agents, Lightning pages, and flows for you. After iterating on your project and deploying into a sandbox, you can always jump into their respective tools to create and edit artifacts.
Builder Central helps you move faster without sacrificing the trust that your enterprise needs. Builder Central gives you two complementary ways to validate your work without risking your org’s data or configuration:
Imagine your team needs a new customer service portal. In the past, you would hunt through Setup, hand-build objects and relationships, wire up flows, and configure agent actions. It could easily take a full sprint.
With Builder Central, you just describe the portal in plain language. You watch the app get built step by step, open the Preview Org to actually use it, and deploy it to your sandbox with a single click. You can move from an idea to a working app in an afternoon.
Get your team building today! Builder Central is in beta now, and you can start exploring how it can radically speed up all of your building workflows. Admins can get their teams building by granting the “Access Builder Central” user permission, enabling the beta feature, and activating the Metadata Experts MCP Server in Setup. We recommend enabling it in a Developer or Developer Pro sandbox to unlock the full set of capabilities. Learn more here.
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