About Croft
Build at the speed of AI. Ship apps your company can keep.
Anyone on your team can now describe the tool they need and have a working app back the same afternoon. Croft is where a company lets its people build like that, and ship what they build, under control.
Why we built Croft
Speed needs guardrails.
The same ease that builds a booking sheet over lunch will just as happily wire it to customer data, put it on the open internet, and hand out a link with no login. Building with AI and no guardrails isn't acceleration - it's shadow IT at machine speed. So we put the guardrails in the platform, not in the prompt.
Build and ship in one conversation
Describe the app to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Ask Croft. It's deployed to your own private server and live behind your login, usually in minutes.
Every app behind company login
Single sign-on with passkeys sits in front of every app before a line of its code runs. Access is granted app by app, and removing someone takes them out of everything.
Keys and data kept in check
Connectors keep API keys out of app code, and sensitive data sources need an admin's sign-off. Every deploy is versioned and reversible.
Your whole team builds what it needs, and the business keeps control. IT sets the guardrails once, and everyone builds inside them. That's the idea behind the name: a croft is a plot of land honestly held, with a fence, a gate, and a clear line around what's yours.
Who we are
Identity and access are where we come from.
Croft is built in New Zealand. Croft's founders previously built Litmos, a learning platform that grew to serve over 20 million learners, and ThisData, an adaptive authentication company acquired by OneLogin. That's why single sign-on and access control sit at the core of Croft.
No lock-in
Your apps don't depend on us.
Choosing a platform for real work means asking what happens if things change. You shouldn't have to take our word for it, so we made sure you don't.
Your code and data are yours
Everything your team builds on Croft belongs to you - the code, the data, and the files. Cancel and we hand you all of it.
One package you can run yourself
Export every app's code, database, and uploaded files as one package, set up as a standard Docker project you or any developer can run. No proprietary format.
Continuous, tested backups
Every change streams to encrypted, off-server storage, with a nightly snapshot on top, and we run real restore drills. A backup nobody has tested is just a hope.
A private server per workspace
Each workspace runs on its own dedicated server, not a shared pool. One workspace can never see or reach another.
Choose your hosting region
On the Enterprise plan, you choose where your server runs, for data residency.
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Talk to us
Questions before you start?
Email the team, follow along on X and YouTube, or read the docs. Or just start building - your first app can be live today.
No card. 7 days. Cancel anytime.