
Maia for Smart Development
Build high-quality software faster
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Your AI co-pilot for smarter, faster development
Maia for Smart Development includes our generative AI-powered capabilities built into the Studio Pro IDE and Developer portal.
Use Maia Chat to find answers for your development questions, automate tasks, and generate parts of your application. Maia provides developers with guidance, assistance, and generation throughout the entire SDLC.

Find instant answers
and guidance
Maia Chat, our conversational chatbot, uses generative AI to help developers understand the ins and outs of Mendix to enhance productivity.

Get contextual guidance on whatever you are working on via a human-like conversation and without leaving the IDE.
Ask Maia Chat questions in any language and get an immediate, concise response with references to resources, such as documentation, Marketplace, forums, Medium blogs, and more.
Use Maia Learn, a new feature of Maia Chat for those new to Mendix, to better understand key application concepts and get started using Studio Pro.
Get real-time assistance throughout every step
Maia for Smart Development provides real-time, context-driven recommendations based on millions of examples to help with modeling, UI, and the creation of application logic, workflows, microflows, and nanoflows.

Use Maia Logic Recommender for real-time context driven recommendations to build business logic up to 30% faster.
Implement best practices automatically and fix issues in a single click with Maia Best Practice Recommender.
Get suggestions for applicable microflows to build workflows faster with Maia Workflow Recommender, similar to Logic Recommender.
Streamline the process of adding widgets in the page editor with UI Recommender, available in both design and X-ray mode.
Generate your application architecture
Automate development tasks and generate parts of an application or an entire application. Mendix helps developers model and deliver applications faster, more consistently, and with higher quality.
Kickstart development with Start with Maia. Give Maia a description, images, or a requirements PDF, and it will generate a solid foundation for your application in minutes.
Speed things up by quickly generating workflows based on a prompt or an image with Maia for Workflows.
Use Maia Domain Model Generator to create entities and associations for a new data model or extend an existing one.
Simplify query creation by generating and managing Object Query Language (OQL) through an intuitive interface with Maia for OQL.
Translate Mendix apps into different languages with Maia Translations Generator. This tool works efficiently to ensure that no translations are missed.
Condense threads from the Mendix Forum into key points with Maia Summarizer. Before posting on the Forum, edit your questions and answers with Maia Rewrite.
Maintain security and governance
We’re committed to maintaining a secure and responsible environment for Maia to thrive.

For data management, Maia follows industry-standard security measures to protect the integrity and confidentiality of your data. Maia doesn’t use customer or company-specific information. Data, information, and project-specific context are used only to fulfill user requests.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Maia?
Maia (Mendix Artificial Intelligence Assistance) is an AI chat assistant designed to help and guide developers through the software development lifecycle. Powered by generative AI, Maia can answer your development questions, generate app components, and automate tasks.
How does Maia work?
Maia is built into the Mendix IDE. The virtual assistant uses deep learning and the ML analysis of millions of anonymized applications to guide developers and make application development faster and easier.
Maia tools include:
- Maia Chat
- Maia Workflow Recommender
- Maia Nanoflow Recommender
- Maia Best Practice Recommender
- Maia Translations Generator
- Maia Summarize
- Maia Rewrite
How can Maia improve the development process?
Whether you’re a novice or a professional, Maia helps developers of all skill levels build applications faster and more efficiently.
Maia serves as a virtual Mendix coach by inspecting models, identifying issues, recommending fixes, and measuring your application against best practices.
If you’re new to low-code, Maia will serve as your guide throughout the application lifecycle so you can learn how to develop applications as you go. For professional developers, Maia streamlines and automates repetitive tasks so you can build faster and innovate more.
Is Maia available for all Mendix developers?
Yes. Developers of all experience levels can use Maia to accelerate the delivery of low-code applications.
Maia helps experienced developers build and innovate faster. Maia also helps novice developers understand low-code by learning the best actions to take throughout each stage of the application development process.