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Vision of the Future, Part 1: Qdabra's New Tempo

You can hear it, can't you? That electric hum in the air—a new rhythm, a faster beat. It's the sound of FormsDesigner features reaching fruition at a faster pace.

Welcome to Qdabra's new sound.

The Conductor and His AI Accompanist

For months, our development team has been operating less like a traditional office and more like a budding orchestra. Jimmy, our lead developer, has taken the podium to conduct a breakthrough: we've dramatically reduced the time it takes to create new FormsDesigner features.

Jimmy's innovation was a new, extensible prompt framework—a "prompt ensemble"—that acts as sheet music for our AI instrumentalist. This isn't your average musician; it's an AI keyboardist with lightning-fast fingers, powered by Anthropic's Claude Code 4.0.

This prompt ensemble is our secret sauce: sophisticated instructions that guide the AI to harmonize with our developers, generating, reviewing, and revising feature code with speed and precision.

Think of it this way: a simple instruction like "Create a form validation function for email addresses" becomes a fully-formed, tested code module with error handling, documentation, and integration points. Using these simple instruction files to direct Anthropic's new agentic Claude Opus AI model, we shifted from a steady march to full allegro.

The time saved speaks for itself:

Developer Estimated Time (Traditional) Actual Time (AI-Assisted) Time Savings
Hilary 87 36 59%
Jimmy 278 97 65%
Samyog 662 239 64%
Sweta 360 244 32%

(Measured over Q2 2025 development cycle)

This isn't just a one-off improvement—it's a workflow transformation. Our developers now focus on higher order harmonizations while Jimmy's prompt ensemble inspires AI background synthesis of new feature code.

Tuning for Performance

Musical performances require tuned instruments. When our AI assistance costs hit four figures in May, we adjusted the arrangement. Switching to Claude's Max plan in June capped our per-developer costs at a flat rate, dropping monthly expenses back to three digits.

We're getting the full power of high-end synthesis without a celebrity DJ price tag.

From Monolith to Movement

This success with AI prompt ensembles for development led to other areas of work. We started using long prompts to analyze our internal communications. Then we created prompt libraries for helping customers build business process prototypes.

The journey from discovering a riff to composing a song is long. Our first attempt was fat-fingered for sure. But, over time it got easier. Agile development best practices pushed us to do daily dev sync meetings in March. We started analyzing our Microsoft Teams with the automatically generated transcripts—this approach missed a lot.

Then we tried Gemini 2.5 Pro in early June, and things got better. We stopped deciphering flawed transcripts and just moved to processing entire MP4 video recordings (because Gemini could). The leap in clarity was significant. We weren't just asking for summaries; we were using our custom evolved long prompt to identify potential blind spots and gaps in thinking. Now we're using agentic AI to prompt humans. :)

This multi-tool AI strategy—using Claude for code generation and Gemini for strategic analysis—represents a new approach: selecting the best AI instrument for each specific task.

The Symphony Begins

This new tempo is just the beginning—the sound of Qdabra creating our future, faster. Stay tuned for Part 2, where we'll show you exactly what this new tempo means for you and the FormsDesigner features you've been waiting for.

The symphony is just getting started, and the next movement is all about delivering new value for you to use now.

Related Reading

  1. Claude Opus 4
  2. Claude 4: The Next Generation of AI Assistants
Revolutionizing Form Design: How Qdabra is Building the Future, Faster.

Have you ever wished you could build powerful, dynamic forms with the ease of a simple copy and paste? Or imagined a world where the tedious, time-consuming aspects of form design are handled for you, freeing you up to focus on the bigger picture? At Qdabra, we're not just imagining that future; we're building it. And we're doing it faster than ever before.

In our latest webinar, we pulled back the curtain on the exciting new release of our FormsDesigner and offered a glimpse into the revolutionary AI-powered future we're creating. If you missed it, don't worry. We've got the highlights for you right here.

New in FormsDesigner: Bringing InfoPath Functionality to the Modern Era

We've been rolling out bi-weekly updates focused on feature parity with InfoPath and requests from you, our customers. We're pleased to announce a suite of enhancements designed to make your form-building experience more intuitive and productive. Here are some of the key updates:

  • Robust Copy-Paste: To accelerate form creation, you can now copy and paste various elements—including complex sections and people pickers—with the assurance that the associated XPath references and logic will update correctly in their new location.
  • Dynamic Repeating Tables: We now support adding repeating tables to your forms! The designer streamlines this process and intelligently applies the right controls based on data type, such as using checkboxes for true/false fields.
  • Simplified XPath Functions: A new "insert function" dialog helps you add functions to your XPath expressions, assisting with correct syntax and reducing manual errors.
  • Enhanced Layout Control: You now have more granular control over your form's layout, with new options to delete rows and columns from tables and to add page breaks or horizontal lines.
  • Expanded Customization: We've added more font options and the ability to specify custom sizes. You can also now define table cell borders and background colors to better align forms with your branding standards.

These updates bring us closer to full InfoPath feature parity while adding the reliability and modern interface you've been asking for.

Our Secret Weapon: AI-Powered Innovation

How are we delivering these powerful new features at such a rapid pace? The answer is simple: we're embracing the power of Artificial Intelligence. We've developed our own suite of AI tools that are revolutionizing the way we work:

  • qDocChat: This intelligent chatbot, built from our own document libraries, is transforming our support and development processes.
  • qFormChat: We're integrating AI directly into our forms to provide semantic validation, intelligent autofill, and a helpful task pane to guide users.
  • Internal AI for Accelerated Development: By leveraging advanced AI models for planning, coding, and code review, we've dramatically reduced our development cycles, allowing us to bring you more features, faster.
  • AI-Powered Meeting Efficiency: We're even using AI to summarize our meetings, ensuring we capture every action item, risk, and key takeaway, keeping our team aligned and moving forward at top speed.

The Future is Automated: AI for End-to-End Business Processes

But we're not stopping there. We're currently prototyping a groundbreaking new AI tool that will automate the creation of entire business processes. Imagine describing a business need and having an AI orchestrate the creation of the necessary forms, workflows, reports, and dashboards. This is the future of business process automation, and it's happening now at Qdabra.

See it for Yourself

This is just a glimpse of the exciting innovations we're working on. To see these new features in action and learn more about our vision for the future of form design, we invite you to watch the full webinar.

We're incredibly proud of the work we're doing, and we're committed to empowering you with the most powerful and intuitive form design tools on the market. The future is bright, and we're excited to build it with you.