Zoho Corporation has added 10 new services and features to Zoho Creator, its low-code application development platform, all focused on AI capabilities that drive real-time, secure benefits for business users.
Zoho Creator’s new AI assistant is called CoCreator, and it facilitates faster, simpler, and more intelligent app building with the use of voice and written prompts, process flows, and business specification documents. Powered by Zia, CoCreator drives shorter go-to-market timeframes, says the company, and makes app creation simpler for users at different skill levels without requiring add-ons to an existing subscription.
Zia has been a bridge across the company’s full product suite, including Creator, since its launch in 2015. Zoho’s deep AI integration provides customers with a high level of contextual AI across all company workflows, allowing for a tool that understands your data and anticipates how it can be used.
“Since Creator’s introduction in 2006, the focus has been on simplifying and speeding up the app development process without sacrificing functionality,” says Chandrashekar LSP, Zoho Canada’s Managing Director. “This enabled our users to launch millions of apps successfully. AI allows us to take it to another level, shortening the time from an idea to an app. Today’s announcement raises the baseline on speed of quality app creation with deep capabilities, without adding costs.”
Here’s a breakdown of the new features.
Idea-to-App Generation: Leverage capabilities of ZohoAI or OpenAI to develop full-fledged applications including contextual integrations, automations, permission sets, and insightful dashboards. By using text or voice prompts, process flow diagrams, or systems documentations like software requirement specifications (SRS), Creator will provide domain-specific suggestions, ideas for relevant fields, and modules tailored to a customer’s business.
Component generation using AI: Contextual component development enhances existing applications with prompt-based form generation. In addition, Zia proactively recommends contextual fields within an existing form, a feature missing in most similar low-code app development tools.
Code generation and optimization: With Zia’s prompter, various developer personas can use prompts to automatically generate contextual code blocks tailored to application requirements and structure. This feature can also be used to optimize and annotate existing code blocks for ideal performance.
Data cleansing and modelling: Quickly transform unstructured data from various file types and databases into customized apps, aided by advanced AI-based data prep capabilities that remove inconsistencies and bring logical structure to detail.
AI Skills: Enables businesses to build apps with specialized skills that can interpret natural language instructions, analyze business context, and coordinate a chain of actions (powered by Deluge and specialized AI models) to intelligently automate everyday processes. The feature is currently available in Early Access only, set to launch in General Availability in June 2025.
Deploy a custom AI model with context-specific data to meet specific requirements, with support for custom models for OCR, prediction, and object detection.
Zoho says that its generic AI models across contextual, assistive, and agentic AI are not trained on consumer data and do not retain customer information.