Retool

“What Retool does really amazingly is the rapid prototype—getting something up and running quickly.”

“For me, Retool is a way to build data capability —what I call data apps or data products. Traditionally you would need a full-stack resource or talent within your organization to be able to do that. But with Retool we can do that quickly and with a relatively smaller cost.”

“"The speed with which we were able to prototype and refine the dashboard saved engineering hours and allowed us to iterate rapidly with the customer in mind. It's time-to-value for our customers and internal stakeholders,"”

“"Retool democratized building our tooling. We quickly built dashboards that were so effective, and some went straight into production. Without it, our investment portfolio would be consumed by maintenance rather than driving new revenue,"”

““Retool is the shortest path to get something into production with a quick feedback loop. We got a working prototype in front of customers in the first week, rapidly iterating based on their feedback.””

““The speed from idea to something tangible that we can test and iterate on is so, so fast,” says Miles.”

““It would be very painful. Of all the tools that I use, I would essentially rather keep Retool than any of the others. It’s just so core and fundamental to what we build.””

““Before, I was doing customer implementations, which is one-to-one—my hours were directly proportional to customer time. Now I can build tools through Retool that scale. If I have to do data imports for 10 customers, I can just build one tool that allows someone on our team to do them all.””

““Now the question is, ‘why can’t we just build in Retool?’ That is the default because we already have everything set up and hooked up. My bet is that most of these tools we can just build faster than the sales cycle would happen with another tool.””

““When you run into issues with your workflow, your default is to go, ‘This can probably be fixed. Let me talk to Miles and figure out how to do it.’ And that’s extremely valuable.””

““[Account managers] don’t have to spend time researching all these customers proactively,” Miles explains. “They get a sense of where things are, and when customers stray into higher risk, they know they need to be more attentive.””

““The agent allows account managers to focus on the human tasks of building relationships and interacting with people, offloading the research process to the tool instead.””

““Workflows are so easy to spin up because they already connect to the Retool database and all our different resources,” Miles says, “If someone on the team says to me, ‘Hey, I wish we could do xyz,’ Retool has become the default place where I will build it.””

““The tool we were using previously cost us something like $20,000 a year, and I was running into so many issues with it. Their support was so slow that it got to a point where it was faster for me to rebuild the product inside Retool Workflows than wait for support to get back to me.””

““Retool is an excellent canvas, both for technical and non-technical people. It allows us to take something from concept, to prototype, to fully built-out so quickly… Now if someone on the team wants to buy a cool new piece of software, the default is to ask, ‘Why can’t we just build this in Retool?’””

““Ultimately, Retool empowers us to provide a better tooling service level to our internal users than in the past and, as a result, better serve our customers,” Kee Han says.”

““This speeds up our process and reduces our need to maintain package updates—in React, we’d have to update over 100 packages, but with Retool, we only need to update the Retool version, and the packages are updated automatically,” he adds.”

““Retool offers us prebuilt components and integration with resources that we otherwise would have to build,” Kee Han says.”

““We’ve been able to rapidly and inexpensively crunch out applications that are very useful to our team,” explains Kenneth.”

““Retool eliminates the pain of building React apps from scratch and gives us the best of custom tooling,” explains Kenneth.”

“Using Retool for our Provider Admin Dashboard is foolproof.”

“It’s about what your focus is. What’s your core expertise? To build [your internal tools from scratch] is a mistake to me, just because it’s probably not the core of your business.”

““We encourage teams to build apps that solve more use cases in Retool,” says Akshat. “We’ve already more than doubled developer throughput without adding more resources, and we’re just getting started.””

““Building tools for all of our use cases would have required a much bigger engineering team. We’ve reduced our engineering expenses by 20% while still building out those critical use cases with Retool.””

““With Retool, we’ve drastically increased our productivity to build internal tools for both mission-critical and pilot use cases,” says Akshat. “It gives teams the power to build tools themselves using the controls that we provide.””