EmpowerPro 2026 brought builders, innovators, and thought leaders together to explore what's next for Quickbase, FastField, and Pave. From keynote announcements to product deep dive sessions, attendees discovered the latest enhancements, newest capabilities, and real-world applications that are transforming how teams work.
Below are the biggest announcements we made at EmpowerPro. For the most up to date information, be sure to check out the release notes app.
If you couldn't attend, catch the sessions on demand.
Pave
Re-introducing Pave: The AI App Builder IT Can Say Yes To
Every Quickbase customer has a list of apps that never got built: the intake on a shared spreadsheet, the approval chain in an inbox, the tracker that sat behind other priorities in the IT backlog. Pave is the AI-native app builder from Quickbase, and it moves building from clicks to conversation. Describe what you need in plain language and Pave builds a production-ready app around it, ready for your team this week. No ticket, no queue required.
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Get the whole app, not just the screen. The data model, roles and permissions, hosting, and publishing all come from the same description.
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Reach the other systems the business runs on, with 350+ connectors included on every plan.
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Work alongside your existing apps. The Quickbase connector lets a Pave app read and write from what your Core apps hold.
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Let the process run without chasing it with agentic workflows.
Nothing you’ve built in Core needs to move or change. All of it runs on the same platform foundation you already trust, safe for IT from the first prompt and working for your team this week.
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Quickbase
Smart Scheduling
Stop manual scheduling. Drag and drop assignments on a calendar view. See who's available when, accounting for working hours and time off. Let AI automatically assign resources to tasks based on skills, capacity, and constraints. Manage field service, projects, and teams all from one schedule.
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Team Plan Customers: Start a free 30-day Enterprise plan trial from the account summary page
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Business and Enterprise Customers: Get started with scheduling, now live in your account.
Custom Interface
Pave brings AI-native custom interface building into Quickbase as a new page type. Build custom interfaces by describing what you want in natural language with no code required.
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Save them as pages in your app alongside forms, reports, and dashboards.
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Control look and feel with custom branding and dark mode.
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Build rich interactions like Kanban boards with inline editors.
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Create structures Quickbase doesn't normally support, like task columns instead of rows.
All with built-in governance, Quickbase-managed maintenance, and the simplicity of native UI blocks.
Quickbase Intelligence Package
Automate workflows, analyze your data like an expert, and teach your AI agent to learn from your documents. The package brings powerful capabilities together to help you work smarter and faster.
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Save multi-step workflows as slash commands and run in seconds what used to take 20-30 minutes.
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Ask your data questions like an analyst: compare groups, detect outliers, forecast outcomes, and understand which factors drive results.
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Plus, chat now persists context across conversations, web search validates information in real-time, PDF support increases from 3MB to 10MB, and admins can disable AI access for specific apps.
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Coming Soon: Teach your AI agent to read documents attached to records, compare them, and draw insights—analyzing lost bids against new opportunities to recommend winning strategies.
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Pipelines and Core Improvements
Grid Reports, Forms, and Dashboards get polished updates. Pipelines have been redesigned around four principles to make them stronger, faster, and more forgiving.
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Grid Reports are the new default with spreadsheet-style editing, column pinning, and enhanced error handling.
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Forms get anti-bot verification, enhanced record pickers (9 fields instead of 3), and better report embedding.
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Dashboards now filter by user list fields and auto-refresh every 5 minutes. Pipelines have been redesigned around four principles:
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Prevention (automatic field renaming, smart table switching, stable step references)
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Containment (error handling blocks route failures instead of terminating)
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Understanding (AI troubleshooting explains errors in plain language)
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Recovery (replay failed pipelines with original trigger data).
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ALM & Governance
Enhance your Application Lifecycle Management and with Native Solutions that now include improvements for moving changes from development to test to production with better visibility and control at every step. New transparency is available for entitlements and app performance, supporting platform scaling as organizations grow.
Register for the workshop on November 12 to learn more!
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FastField & Quickbase
Fastfield and Quickbase Extensions
FastField and Quickbase Extensions work together to transform paper-based and manual processes into a connected digital platform. The integration enables frontline teams to capture data in the field and route it seamlessly into Quickbase for processing, analysis, and action, eliminating clipboard work, reducing errors, and providing real-time visibility.
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Now in Beta: Route Optimization and Dispatch Work
FastField’s new job Scheduling experience helps operations teams plan and dispatch field work in minutes instead of hours. The optimizer drafts each technician’s day around skills, availability, location, and customers’ preferred time windows, while building efficient routes from each home base. Dispatchers review the plan on a visual timeline and route map, adjust anything by hand, and send it to technicians’ mobile app with one save.
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Schedule view by day or week with Route Map
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Optimize Schedule with full review before changes
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Work Profile with technician skills, hours, and home base
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Availability with templates, time off, and holidays
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Job Types and Skills for repeat work
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Tasks list with status tabs
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