Summer camp for AI builders

👋 Hello, Retool community!

July 7–11 we’re hosting our first-ever AI Build Week: five days of guided sessions on AI in Retool. Think of it like summer camp—you’ll connect with experts and other builders to learn something new, only instead of building fires, you’ll be building AI apps and agents you’ll actually use. Mark your calendar.

Want some inspiration first? Check out this list of Agent use cases across sales, customer success, logistics, and more.

🚀 What’s new

Retool Agents (beta) is now available in the self-hosted preview release

Agents (currently in public beta on Cloud) now has a preview release for self-hosted organizations. Deploy it in a non-production environment to explore how Agents can automate tasks autonomously. Available in preview.

Set per-page view permissions for multipage apps

You can now restrict which pages your users see within multipage apps by setting per-page permissions. When configuring a permission group for users, you can specify permissions for each relevant page. Learn more.

🛠 Check out the changelog to see everything we’ve shipped.

🗓 In-person events

Thank you to everyone who came out to one of our community showcase events! We love connecting with you all in person.

We’re planning a special event this October. Keep an eye out for details in the July Mallet. Got questions about in-person events? Reach out to us at events@retool.com.

💡Online events—RSVP today

AI Build Week (July 7–11): Each session runs 10am PDT and includes live demos, reusable templates, and community Q&A. Register for the full week or pick individual sessions that match your needs.

July 7: Prompt Arena: Compare LLMs with Smarter Prompts
July 8: RAG + Vectors: Build a Vibes-Based AI Search App
July 9: Behind the Build: How We Made RetoolGPT
July 10: AI Meets Automation: Build Smarter Workflows
July 11: AI That Acts: Build Your First Agent

Learn Retool in 15 minutes (Weekly on Thursdays): Build a Retool app alongside an expert in 15 minutes. Sign up here.

🎥 On demand

🌍 From the Community

The Community has been buzzing with creative solutions and big-picture thinking this month. ☀️

Agents in the wild: James Pates built a working Shopify automation in under an hour with Agents—pulling sales data, flagging orders, and letting users chat directly with their data.
Making Workflows beautiful: @khill-fbmc shared a CSS hack to transform Retool’s workflow editor, replacing grey dots with skyblue connectors and a soothing nature background.
Solving survey module challenges: @Rachael is tackling tricky radio group layouts for a reusable survey module, sharing detailed workarounds for auto-column wrapping issues.

Follow along in the Community Forum during AI Build Week—get badges, compete in daily and weekly challenges, and chat us up in the comments!

Not a member yet? Join the community—it’s not the same without you. 🤗

📚 Bonus content!

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