How to Build Smarter Apps Using GenAI

Last modified: July 18, 2025

Introduction

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) transforms business applications, empowering developers and technologists to create smarter, more dynamic solutions. This document provides the knowledge and tools needed to make your first GenAI-powered application and guides developers and business technologists in integrating GenAI into their Mendix applications.

Key Resources to Continue Your GenAI Journey

Getting Started with the How-Tos

Starter Apps

Prompt Engineering Resources

Additional Resources

  • Basic documentation on GenAI Concepts is an essential resource for anyone beginning their GenAI journey.
  • The GenAICommons module as a prerequisite for all GenAI components.
  • The ConversationalUI module that offers UI snippets for chat, token consumption monitoring and prompt management.
  • The Mendix Cloud GenAI Resource Packs to learn how to quickly access GenAI capabilities from a Mendix app.
  • The OpenAI provides essential information about the OpenAI connector.
  • The Amazon Bedrock provides key information about the AWS Bedrock connector.
  • The MCP Server Module provides reusable operations to create and initialize an MCP server within a Mendix app to expose tools and prompts to external clients.
  • The PGVector Knowledge Base offers the option for a private knowledge base outside of the LLM infrastructure.

For any additional feedback, send a message in the #genai-connectors channel on the Mendix Community Slack. You can sign up for the Mendix Community here.

Basics

Building your own Connector

AI Agents

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Documents in this Category

Build a Chatbot Using the AI Bot Starter App

A tutorial that describes how to get started building a smart app with a starter template

Build a Chatbot from Scratch Using the Blank GenAI App

A tutorial that describes how to get started building a smart app from a Blank GenAI App

Prompt Engineering at Runtime

This document guides you through integrating Agent Commons into your Mendix application, allowing users to perform prompt engineering at runtime.

Integrate Function Calling into Your Mendix App

This document guides you through integrating and implementing function calling in your Mendix application to enhance functionality.

Grounding Your Large Language Model in Data – Mendix Cloud GenAI

This document guides you on grounding your large language model in data within your Mendix application to enhance its functionality.

Create Your First Agent

This document guides you through creating your first agent using one of the two approaches provided by integrating knowledge bases, function calling, and prompt management in your Mendix application to build powerful GenAI use cases. Both approaches leverage the capabilities of Mendix Agents kit. One approach uses the Agent builder UI to define agents at runtime by the principles of Agent Commons. The second approach defines the agent programmatically using the building blocks of GenAI Commons.

Build Your Own GenAI Connector

A tutorial that describes how to build your own GenAI connector