# Zite consultant: business apps your team can keep running. > Zite builds business apps, portals and internal tools from a prompt, on a shared Postgres database with no per-seat fees. SBD plans the data and permissions, builds the app in your Zite organisation, connects it to your other systems and hands it over documented, for teams of 5 to 1,000 people. - Canonical: https://smallbaydigital.com/integrations/tools/zite/ - Publisher: SmallBay Digital ## What Zite does, and who is behind it Zite is a prompt-first builder for business software: apps, workflows, forms, websites and a database in one workspace. It launched in April 2025 from the team behind Fillout. On 9 March 2026 the company renamed itself Zite, and Fillout carried on as a product under it, so a Zite app and a Fillout form can read and write the same tables. Two things draw operations teams to it. Every plan allows unlimited users, which changes the sums for a tool used by a whole warehouse or a large client base. And the database is included, so there is no separate backend to buy and connect before the first screen works. ## What a Zite project from SBD covers A prompt gets you a first screen quickly. A system people depend on needs more than that, and most of our work sits in the part a prompt does not settle: which tables exist, who may see which rows, what happens when an integration fails, and who owns the app once it is live. SBD has no published Zite case study yet, so we will show you comparable internal tools and portals built on other platforms, and we will say plainly where Zite is new to a requirement. We prototype your hardest screen first, so you see what the platform does with your data before you commit to a build. - Internal tools: order desks, request trackers, approvals and dashboards. - Client and partner portals with sign-in and per-customer data. - Airtable moves, using Zite's migration into its database, with the screens and automations rebuilt. - Rescue work on apps that a team generated and now relies on. ## When Zite is the right choice, and when it is not Choose Zite when many people need access, when you want the database included, and when your team is comfortable working from prompts with generated code behind them. Softr is often the safer choice where non-technical staff will edit screens by hand. Lovable has fuller code portability through two-way Git sync, which matters if developers will take the app further. Retool suits engineering teams building on existing databases and APIs. Zite's own export covers a workspace's apps and table structure. It leaves out database records and chat history, and connections need setting up again, so moving away is a planned job. We document that route at handover. ## Zite pricing and the limits that matter Zite's pricing page, read in November 2026, lists Free, Pro at $240 a year and Business at $900 a year, with unlimited users on all of them. Pro includes 100 credits, 3 workspaces, 100,000 records and 5,000 workflow runs a month. Business includes 400 credits, 5 workspaces, 250,000 records and 50,000 runs. Single sign-on for app users and audit logs are listed on Enterprise, priced by quote. Records and workflow runs are the limits we size against in the audit, because they grow with the business. AI credits are spent while building, so we plan the build to avoid regenerating screens that already work. ## Built in your Zite organisation Zite's guidance for agencies is to build client systems in the client's organisation, so the workspace, billing and access stay together, with the builder invited as an editor. That is how SBD works on every platform. Editors can reach all the apps and data in a workspace, so we separate workspaces where data must stay apart. ## How a Zite engagement with SBD works Every engagement starts with an [Automation Audit](https://smallbaydigital.com/services/audit/) at $500, credited in full to your build. We map the work, the data and who needs access, and tell you whether Zite fits. Internal tools start at $3,000 and multi-module systems at $5,000, as a fixed price set after the audit, followed by 60 days of hypercare and care plans from $50 a month. ## Related - [Fillout integrations](https://smallbaydigital.com/integrations/tools/fillout/) - [Softr consultant](https://smallbaydigital.com/integrations/tools/softr/) - [Noloco consultant](https://smallbaydigital.com/integrations/tools/noloco/) - [Internal tools service](https://smallbaydigital.com/services/internal-tools/) - [Client portals](https://smallbaydigital.com/solutions/use-case/client-portals/) - [Build vs buy tool](https://smallbaydigital.com/tools/build-vs-buy/) ## Sources - Zite: Pricing page (plans, records, runs, Enterprise features), checked 2 November 2026 - Fillout: The next chapter (company renamed Zite, 9 March 2026) - Zite Help: Working with clients (where to build, transfer, what exports exclude), checked 2 November 2026 - Zite: Zite vs Lovable (vendor comparison: database, code export, Git) - Softr: Softr vs Zite (vendor comparison)