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Everyone Builds on the Same Live Data
Monospace gives you the backend layer including auth, permissions, validation, filtering, storage, MCP without becoming another system of record. It sits over the systems you already run, so the interface an agent uses is the same one your production applications use. Connect a source and it's ready to build against, with no backend to stand up first.
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Build Faster,
Scale Smarter
Skip the backend
Get an instant API over data you already have and ship faster.
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Business teams work against real enterprise data.
Access is scoped up front, so business teams only ever work with the data as permitted. Within that scope, business teams can collaborate in Studio or through preferred AI tooling, with the permissions holding either way.
Control access
Granular access control through row-level and field-level controls for every user, application or agent.
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Anyone Can Build on Monospace
Developers
Build against a typed client generated from your schema, so your editor understands your collections, fields and relations. Coding agents work the same way, with official Agent Skills that teach them your API surface.
Business Teams
Browse and edit live records in Studio, with a built-in AI assistant to help, or connect your own agent and describe what you need.
How It Works
Connect existing data or start fresh
Connect one or many data sources, or start with a new database and build the model in Monospace as you go.
Define what each user can reach
Set fine-grained permission rules for each user, including agents.
Connect an agent and describe what you need
An API key for identity, the official Monospace Skill, and one MCP server for every connected system. The applications your team ships build against a typed SDK generated from the live schema. Coding agents use the same interface, and so do business users connecting an agent with their own key.
Ship an app under its own identity
Give any tool you ship its own service account, scoped exactly to what the running application needs, not tied to your user rights.
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Studio: The Collaboration Layer for Enterprise Data
Monospace turns your backend from a developer-only black box into a shared workspace. The Studio gives non-technical teams a place to work on the same live data your applications use, whether it’s browsing and editing records, working with the data model, or asking the built-in Assistant to find, summarize, or change data in natural language.
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Common Scenarios
Scenario 1
An internal tool that needs orders from your ERP and customer records from your CRM.
Scenario 2
A Next.js frontend over a legacy MySQL database nobody wants to touch.
Scenario 3
A customer portal built without standing up another backend service.
Scenario 4
A mobile app that has to write back to the system of record.
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Build your first app
We’ll walk you through it on a call, or you can follow the guide to go from an empty instance to a working app on your own.
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