Still coding CRUD by hand in 2025? Might as well be using dial-up.

Manual data entry is burning daylight—and your bottom line. Admin teams spend up to 2.5 hours per day on repetitive tasks that could be automated with a few smart forms. And if you're waiting 52 weeks for a dev cycle to finish, you're not building software—you’re aging wine.

You need speed. Not spaghetti code.

Forms Over Data (FOD) is a rapid application development approach that mirrors your data model in the UI, enabling lightning-fast CRUD app creation. It's not about fancy microservices or event streams. It’s about cutting out the bloat and getting results, stat.

Instead of building multi-tier architectures from scratch, FOD lets your team roll out internal tools or data-entry systems in weeks—not months. Think of it as IKEA for apps: efficient, modular, and you only swear once.

Proof it works? Let’s talk $2.3 million.

One of our clients—an 11,500-location retail network—cut their processing time by 80%, reducing 80 pages of manual workflows to just 17. That turned into $2.3M in annual savings and a 320% ROI in the first year. Not bad for a “simple” solution.

Why Inventive’s FOD is anything but basic

Anyone can slap a form on a database. But at Inventive, we bake in validation logic, accessibility, and future-proof scalability—so when you're ready for integrations and automation, you’re not rebuilding from scratch. Our tools grow with you, not against you.

While your competitors automate, you’re still copying and pasting.

Every day you delay automation, you’re gifting your competitors faster ops, cleaner data, and lower costs. FOD is the on-ramp to modern operations—skip it, and you risk being leapfrogged.

• You're tracking inventory in a spreadsheet named "Final_Final_ v7.xlsx"
• Your team asks for a new tool and you answer with "we've got email for that".
• Every admin task feels like an episode of Survivor: Back Office Edition.