A "deploy in one prompt" backend for AI-built web apps at Illinois. Faculty and students ask their AI coding agent for an app—a poll, a guestbook, a live dashboard, an AI tutor—and it goes live on a campus URL in seconds. Illinois sign-in, shared data, file uploads, realtime, and AI are already wired in: no accounts, no API keys, no servers to manage. A lightweight on-ramp that gives non-developers a reason to start building with agents.
No accounts to create, no API keys to manage, no servers to provision
Describe the app you want to any AI coding agent—Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or anything that speaks MCP. UniQuick ships an npm package and an MCP server so the agent knows how to build against the platform.
The agent generates a static front end and deploys it to a campus URL at /s/<slug>/. The browser SDK is served from /sdk.js—every backend service is one function call away, with zero configuration.
Owners flip a switch to publish to an opt-in public gallery, so colleagues can discover and reuse what others have built. A super-admin dashboard curates featured apps and tracks usage across campus.
The backend every AI-built app needs—without writing or hosting any of it
Lowering the floor so non-developers can build with agents
The hardest part of an AI-built app isn't the front end—it's the backend: auth, a database, file storage, realtime, and an AI key. UniQuick removes all of it so a first prompt can actually ship something real on a campus URL.
Every visitor is verified by Illinois sign-in, and AI usage is metered per end-user with a daily token budget—so a popular app can't run up campus AI cost, and the creator is never charged for their students' usage.
Running live on Azure at quick.disruptionlab.illinois.edu, with the client published as the open-source uniquick package on npm. One npx command—no clone, no setup—and an agent can start deploying.