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What is FlowRunner?
FlowRunner is a no-code platform for small businesses. You design pages and forms in a visual editor, automate the work behind them with drag-and-drop flows, and publish the result — all without writing code.
The one-paragraph pitch
Most small businesses stitch together three separate tools: a website builder, a form service, and some kind of automation glue between them. FlowRunner is all three in one place. You draw your pages the way you would in Wix or Squarespace, you wire up the logic — "when someone submits this form, save it, email me, and post it to my CRM" — as a visual flow, and you hit publish. There is nothing to install and no code to maintain.
The three tools
FlowRunner is built around three tools that work together. Each has its own section in this documentation.
| Tool | What it is | Learn more |
|---|---|---|
| Designer | A visual page-and-form builder. Drag in ready-made blocks (hero, pricing, contact form, gallery), restyle everything with a theme, and edit text inline. | Designer overview |
| Flows | A visual automation engine. Wire together nodes — HTTP calls, database queries, email, conditionals, loops — on a canvas, and FlowRunner runs the graph for you. | What are flows? |
| Publishing | The layer that takes your work live. A draft/publish gate, custom domains, SEO metadata, and code export to HTML, Next.js, or React Native. | Publishing overview |
Who it's for
FlowRunner is written for the person who runs the business, not a development team. If you can arrange blocks on a page and describe your process in plain steps, you can build with it. You do not need to know HTML, JavaScript, or how a server works.
Developers are welcome too. Every flow is also a real HTTP endpoint, secrets are encrypted per workspace, and you can export any page to clean HTML, a runnable Next.js app, or a React Native project when you want to take the code with you.
What you can build
- A marketing site — a landing page, an about page, and a pricing page from ready-made blocks and templates.
- A contact or lead form that captures every submission, emails you, and forwards the data to another system.
- A JSON API — a flow that accepts a request, queries a database or a third-party service, and returns a response, all exposed at a URL.
- A scheduled job — a report or cleanup task that runs on a cron schedule with no manual trigger.
Follow one end to end in the Tutorials, starting with the contact form.
TIP
New here? Read Core concepts for the vocabulary, then take the Quick tour to build something in about five minutes.