Mendix AI Assistance (Maia)

Introduction

Mendix AI Assistance (Maia) refers to Mendix Platform capabilities that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to assist developers in application development. Maia is designed to help development teams in modeling and delivering Mendix applications faster, more consistently, and with higher quality.

Mendix developers can use Maia to get guidance by asking questions, get recommendation and assistance for certain development tasks, and even generate part of their app.

For information on Mendix data storage policies and practices for Maia, see Maia Privacy Policy.

For information on what third-party services Maia uses and what data are sent to the third-party services, see the Maia Third-Party Services section below.

Network Configuration Requirements

To ensure the smooth operation of Mendix AI Assistance (Maia), the following network requirements must be met:

• Ensure access to hostnames within the maia.mendix.com subdomain
• Allow secure network traffic through port 443 (HTTPS) to enable uninterrupted operation of Maia

Maia Capabilities in Mendix Studio Pro

Maia in Mendix Studio Pro has the following capabilities:

Guidance:

• Maia Chat (generally available in Studio Pro 10.12.0) – a built-in chat interface powered by Generative AI in Studio Pro. It answers questions about app development in Mendix, including how to apply concepts, best practices, and development patterns. For more information, see Maia Chat.
• Maia Learn (available in Studio Pro 10.18 and above) - helps you to quickly learn Mendix core concepts and get started with Studio Pro. For more information, see Maia Learn.
• Maia Explain (introduced in Studio Pro 10.21.0) – an AI-powered tool that helps you easily understand a microflow or a nanoflow. It explains the general purpose of the logic and highlights specific technical details to help you understand the logic further. For more information, see Maia Explain.

Recommenders:

• Best Practice Recommender – helps you inspect your app against Mendix development best practice detecting and pinpointing development anti-patterns and, in some cases, automatically fixing them. For more information, see Best Practice Recommender.
• Logic Recommender – helps you model and configure microflows, nanoflows, and rules in Mendix Studio Pro. It gives you contextualized recommendations on the next best activity based on the activities and parameters that are already configured in your application. For more information, see Logic Recommender.
• UI Recommender (available in Studio Pro 10.18 and above) – helps you easily add new widgets to a page in Mendix Studio Pro without losing the context of what you are currently working on. For more information, see UI Recommender.
• Workflow Recommender (available in Studio Pro 10.12 and above) – helps you model and configure workflows in Mendix Studio Pro. It gives you contextualized recommendations on the next best activity in your workflow based on context-related information. For more information, see Workflow Recommender.

Generators:

• Maia for Domain Model (introduced in Studio Pro 10.13.0) - an AI-powered tool that you can use for generating new domain models as well as explaining and providing suggestions for existing domain models. For more information, see Maia for Domain Model.
• Maia for Pages (introduced in Studio Pro 10.21.0) - an AI-powered tool that lets you generate a page. It helps you add and configure widgets based on a text input and an optional image. After a page is generated, you can continue in the same session to ask Maia for further improvements and explanations. For more information, see Maia for Pages.
• Translation Generator (introduced in Studio Pro 10.12.0) - an AI-powered translation tool available in Mendix Studio Pro. Currently, it can be used for batch translate and translating system texts in the new web-based system texts editor (in Studio Pro 10.14.0 and above). For more information, see Translation Generator.
• Validation Assist – helps you build validation microflows in a more automated way using pre-built expressions. For more information, see Validation Assist.

Maia in Mendix Portal

Various Maia features are available in Mendix Portal. For more information, refer to Maia in Mendix Portal.

Maia Third-Party Services

The table below presents all the third-party services each Maia capability uses and what data are sent to the third-party services.