Use Cases

Who uses InsightStudio

The whole loop, in one platform.

Idea to deployed-for-the-team is normally a 2-6 week chain of handoffs — demo, engineering ticket, packaging, security review, access provisioning. Studio collapses every step into the same browser session.

Business user

Run apps in the browser

Underwriters, claims adjusters, ops analysts, PMs, support engineers. Open Studio in their browser, pick an app from the marketplace, fill a form, watch results stream in. No CLI install, no .env file, no terminal.

Day-to-day workflows

Triage a broker submission folder — structured intake + risk briefing + draft email
Compare two policies clause-by-clause
Ask "what's the renewal date for Acme?" against the SharePoint corpus
Drop a PDF in, get structured JSON back
Generate this Friday's sprint status email from JIRA

Business builder

Build the app yourself

Operations leads, claims supervisors, underwriters, PMs — the people closest to the work. Describe the app in plain English in Studio's prompt-to-app builder; Studio generates a working bundle; iterate visually; publish. No code. No engineering ticket. Same afternoon.

In-browser authoring loop

Describe what the app should do (plain English prompt)
Studio scaffolds form fields, workflow steps, and output panels
Drag-and-drop refine inputs/outputs in the visual editor
Run a test against real data — preview before publishing
Click Publish; admin approves; teammates request access

Power users + engineers can also author from the InsightWorker CLI and publish via iw app publish — same bundle format, same marketplace.

Admin

Govern who runs what

IT, security, ops leadership. Onboard teams via SSO, grant per-app access by group, watch the worker fleet, pull audit reports for SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA reviews. Multi-tenant within your org — the Claims team sees Claims apps, Underwriting sees Underwriting.

Admin console covers

Users / organizations / groups (SCIM-synced)
Per-app grants by user, group, or role
API tokens for worker daemons + service integrations
Model + provider allowlists, regional pinning, quota caps
Audit log viewer + SIEM export configuration
App approval workflow before marketplace surface

IT / DevOps

Run it in your environment

Platform engineering, IT, security. Install Studio via Helm (k8s) or docker-compose (single VM). Wire up Okta, your S3, your Postgres, your model endpoints. Add worker boxes as you scale. Standard ops tooling all the way down — no proprietary control plane to learn.

Operational footprint

Helm chart (EKS / AKS / GKE / OpenShift) or single-VM docker-compose
Customer-managed Postgres or MySQL
Customer-managed S3 bucket for the app catalog
Workers are stateless — restart, scale, replace at will
Air-gapped install profile for fully-isolated networks
Standard observability: Prometheus metrics, structured logs, healthz endpoints

What kind of apps live in Studio?

Any §15 app authored from the InsightWorker CLI runs in Studio without modification. Some patterns we see most often:

Insurance

Submission triage

Drop a folder of broker emails + attachments. Get structured intake, loss-run analysis, risk briefing, and a draft underwriter email back.

Document operations

PDF → structured data

Point at a PDF, get a clean JSON of every table, form field, and key-value pair — with OCR fallback for scanned docs.

Data engineering

DAG health report

Pick an Airflow DAG ID. Get a PowerPoint health report: trend, bottlenecks, failure diagnoses with suggested fixes.

Document Q&A

Ask SharePoint

"What is the renewal date for the Acme policy?" The agent finds the right docs, reads them, answers with citations to every source.

Data warehouse

Stored procedure builder

Describe what the procedure should do. Get generated PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL, validated, compiled against your DB, with a fix-loop on errors.

Product management

JIRA sprint status

Pull the active sprint, classify risks, draft a status email the user reviews and sends. Friday-afternoon-quality, two minutes of effort.

For ready-to-copy app bundles, see insightworker-app-samples.