Backend as a service
The whole backend, in one project.
A database with an instant REST API, sign-in, subscriptions, workflows and an operations dashboard, all built from your data model. Drive it from the Anythink dashboard, the CLI or Claude.
- Open-source CLI, MIT licence
- Everything included in every plan
Start here
From zero to a working backend
- 1Read
Learn the core concepts
Projects, entities, fields and records: the model every other feature builds on.
Open - 210-minute quick start
Build your first workflow
Flag every order over £100 for review the moment it's created, then check it worked.
Open - 3Set-up guide
Connect Claude over MCP
Let Claude create entities, read and write records, and build workflows in your project.
Open
One product
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Four tools. One project.
Data, automation, subscriptions and the admin your team works in share one model and one set of permissions. Everything is included in every plan.
Why Anythink
What you won't find bolted together anywhere else
- 01
Subscriptions, including Apple in-app purchases
Plans, trials, offer codes and entitlements, with Apple in-app purchases handled natively rather than through another service.
Payments guides - 02
A visual workflow engine inside the backend
Trigger on data changes, schedules or webhooks, then chain integration, AI, email and push steps next to the data they act on.
How workflows work - 03
Row-level security that understands teams
Grant records to users and groups, so each team reads and writes only its own data without custom filtering code.
Roles and permissions - 04
An operations dashboard on the same data
Charts, grid and kanban views and your own branding over live records, so your team never needs a separate admin tool.
Brand the dashboard - 05
AI can operate the whole project
Claude builds and debugs over MCP, scripts run through the CLI, and the dashboard has chat over your own records.
How AI and MCP work
What you can build
Real builds, not feature lists
Mobile app backend
Sign-in, push with action buttons, Apple in-app purchases and file uploads from one data model.
- Sign-in
- Push
- Payments
- Files
Subscriptions and paywalls
Plans, trials, offer codes and entitlements, with Stripe and Apple in-app purchases built in.
- Payments
- Workflows
SaaS backend for teams
Roles, groups and row-level security, so each team only ever sees its own records.
- Roles
- Groups
- Row-level security
Internal tools and dashboards
Grids, charts and menus over your data, branded for your team, with no frontend to build.
- Dashboard
- Branding
Automation in your backend
Workflows fired by data changes, schedules or webhooks that post to Slack, email and push.
- Workflows
- Integrations
AI-operated backends
Claude reads and changes your project over MCP, and AI steps run inside your workflows.
- MCP
- CLI
- Workflows
Headless CMS
Store content as entities, edit it in the dashboard and serve it over the REST API.
- Entities
- REST API
Anythink for agencies
One project per client, then hand over a branded dashboard their team can run.
- Projects
- Branding
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