This was originally posted on the Leap website on May 28, 2025.
We're excited to announce Leap, an AI developer agent that helps you build and ship production-grade apps to your own cloud.
We started building Leap after trying every other AI app builder and hitting the same limitations: they only supported single-page apps, locked you into proprietary Backend-as-a-Service platforms, and lacked support for real production workflows.
Most of these tools don't even offer proper isolated test environments, making deployment risky. Approving a buggy SQL migration, for example, could affect your live database.
That might be fine for some use cases. But as developers, we needed support for advanced infrastructure, more complex architectures, and a more robust workflow.
To be fair, these limitations aren't necessarily flaws. Many of these tools are built for non-developers who value simplicity over flexibility.
We wanted something different.
We wanted a tool for developers, something that delivers the speed of AI without sacrificing control over architecture, APIs, infrastructure, or deployment.
That's why we built Leap.
You still start from a prompt. But everything after that is developer-first:
Leap isn't meant to replace every other workflow or tool right away. We expect it to be most useful for spinning up new projects or building isolated systems within an existing product. You can easily move over to your regular IDE whenever you feel like it, using the GitHub integration to control your codebase.
We built Leap because nothing else met our needs as developers. Now that we're live and starting to welcome users, we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Your feedback will help shape where Leap goes next. We hope you'll give it a try and let us know what you think.
Leap comes with limited free usage and is available for you to try right now.
Start Building with Leap →
We can't wait to see what you build!
– The Encore / Leap team
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