Marketplace

The Strongly.AI Marketplace is a curated catalog of pre-built applications, AI agents, and workflow templates organized by industry vertical. Deploy production-ready solutions to your environment with guided configuration, automatic dependency provisioning, and full source code access.

Overview

The Marketplace provides:

• Pre-built applications across multiple industry verticals
• One-click deployment with guided configuration wizards
• Automatic provisioning of required add-ons, AI models, and workflows
• Full source code access via auto-created project with data volume
• Terms of Service acceptance and audit trail for compliance
• Reviews and ratings from the community
• Search and filtering by vertical, type, vendor, and tags

Browsing the Marketplace

Navigation

Click Marketplace in the main navigation sidebar to access the catalog.

Industry Verticals

Items are organized into industry verticals. Each vertical page shows relevant applications and agents:

Vertical	Description
Financial Services	Banking, payments, trading, and fintech solutions
Healthcare & Life Sciences	Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and health tech
Insurance	Risk management, claims processing, and insurtech
Logistics	Warehouse management, supply chain, and distribution
Retail & E-commerce	Point of sale, inventory, and customer experience
Technology & Software	Developer tools, DevOps, and software solutions

Each vertical displays an icon, description, and count of available items.

Item Types

Type	Description
App	Full applications with frontend, backend, and infrastructure
Agent	AI-powered agents and automation tools

Search and Filtering

The Marketplace supports multiple ways to find items:

• Text search -- Search by name, description, vendor, or tags
• Vertical filter -- Filter by industry vertical
• Type filter -- Show only apps or only agents
• Sort order -- Featured items first, then by rating and date

Search uses case-insensitive matching and escapes special characters for safety.

Marketplace Item Structure

Each marketplace item contains the following information:

Field	Description
Name	Display name of the application or agent
App Name	Unique identifier used for deployment (e.g., strongly-gpt, kanban)
Description	Detailed description of what the item does
Vendor	Creator or publisher of the item
Type	app or agent
Vertical	Industry vertical classification
Image	Logo or screenshot path
Rating	Community rating (0-5 stars)
Reviews	Number of user reviews
Featured	Whether the item is highlighted in the catalog
Tags	Categorization labels for search
Price	Pricing information (e.g., "Free", "Open Source")

Item Detail Page

Clicking on a marketplace card opens the detail page showing:

• Full description and documentation
• Stack and technology details
• Resource requirements
• Required dependencies (add-ons, AI models)
• Community reviews and ratings
• Deploy button to begin installation
• License information

Deploying from Marketplace

Deployment Overview

Deploying a marketplace item is a multi-step process that provisions all required infrastructure automatically:

Browse --> Select Item --> Accept Terms --> Configure --> Deploy --> Monitor

Step 1: Select and Review

1. Browse the marketplace and click on an item
2. Review the description, requirements, and reviews
3. Click Deploy to start the deployment wizard

Step 2: Accept Terms of Service

Before deployment, you must accept the Marketplace Terms of Service:

• All marketplace items are third-party, open-source software provided "AS IS"
• Users are responsible for evaluating suitability and security
• Terms acceptance is permanently logged for audit compliance
• Each deployment creates a new acceptance record

The acceptance record includes:

Field	Description
User ID	Who accepted
Timestamp	When terms were accepted
App Name	Which application
App Version	Version at time of acceptance
Terms Version	Version of terms accepted
IP Address	Client IP address
Config Snapshot	Deployment configuration at time of acceptance

Step 3: Configure Deployment

The deployment wizard is driven by a deploy.json configuration file stored in S3 alongside the application code. Each step in the wizard is defined by this configuration.

Common configuration options:

Setting	Description
Permissions	Public access or specific allowed users
Resources	CPU, memory, disk, and number of instances
Add-ons	Database dependencies (use existing or create new)
AI Models	AI Gateway models to connect
Environment Variables	Additional configuration variables

Step 4: Add-on Configuration

Many marketplace items require add-ons (managed databases, caches, message queues). The deployment wizard lets you:

Use an existing add-on:

• Select from your running add-ons grouped by type
• Shows addon label, type, status, and whether you own it
• Data sources (S3, GCS, MinIO, Azure Blob) are also shown as available connections

Create a new add-on:

• Specify type, resources, and configuration
• The deployment process will create and wait for the add-on to be ready
• Add-ons go through: deploying --> stopped --> starting --> running

Step 5: AI Model Selection

If the marketplace item uses AI capabilities:

• Select from your available AI Gateway models
• Models are grouped by provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, vLLM, etc.)
• Shows model name, provider, vendor model ID, type, and capabilities
• Only active/running models that you own, have shared access to, or are public are shown

Step 6: Deploy

Clicking Deploy triggers an orchestrated deployment process:

1. Terms Acceptance -- Records your terms acceptance
2. Add-on Provisioning -- Creates or validates required add-ons (waits for running status)
3. Workflow Deployment -- Deploys any required workflow automations (waits for active status)
4. ML Model Deployment -- Deploys any required ML models (waits for running status)
5. Project Creation -- Creates a project with source code uploaded to its data volume
6. Application Deployment -- Builds and deploys the application container

Deployment Progress Tracking

During deployment, real-time progress is tracked:

• Current step number and message
• Created resources (for cleanup on failure)
• Timestamp of last update

You can monitor deployment status from the marketplace item detail page.

Post-Deployment

After successful deployment:

• A new Project is created containing the application source code
• Source code is extracted from the marketplace zip file and uploaded to the project's data volume
• The application is built, deployed, and accessible via its URL
• All provisioned add-ons and workflows are running and connected

Reviewing Marketplace Items

Submitting a Review

After deploying and using a marketplace item:

1. Navigate to the item's detail page
2. Click Write Review
3. Provide:
   • Rating -- 1 to 5 stars
   • Title -- Brief summary
   • Comment -- Detailed feedback
4. Submit your review

Each user can submit one review per marketplace item. Reviews are marked as verified.

Review Display

Reviews show the reviewer's name, rating, title, comment, creation date, and a helpfulness counter.

Managing Deployed Items

Checking Deployment Status

Use the Deployed Items view to see all marketplace items you have deployed:

• Item name and type
• Deployment status
• Deployment date
• Associated resources (app ID, add-on IDs, workflow IDs)

Canceling a Deployment

If a deployment is in progress and encounters issues:

1. Navigate to the item detail page
2. Click Cancel Deployment
3. The system cleans up any partially created resources

Clearing Deployment Progress

After a completed or failed deployment, clear the progress indicator to reset the item for future redeployment.

Marketplace Data Management

Seed Data

Marketplace items are managed through the strongly-ai-marketplace GitHub repository:

• Items are defined in seed.json stored in S3 (s3://strongly-shared/marketplace/seed.json)
• On each platform restart, seed data is synced to MongoDB
• Existing items are fully updated with new data (preserving only _id and creation date)
• New items are inserted automatically
• Logos are downloaded from S3 to the frontend public directory

Deploy Configuration

Each marketplace item includes a deploy.json file in S3 at:

s3://strongly-shared/workspaces/{appName}/latest/deploy.json

This file defines the deployment wizard steps, required dependencies, and configuration options.

Customizing Deployed Applications

Source Code Access

After deployment, a project is created with the full source code:

1. Navigate to Projects
2. Find the project named after the marketplace app (includes a unique ID suffix)
3. Launch a workspace to access and modify the code
4. Source code is in the /code directory of the project's data volume

Modifying and Redeploying

1. Open the project workspace
2. Edit the source code
3. Rebuild and redeploy the application through the Apps section
4. Environment variables can be updated without rebuilding

License Information

Viewing License

Each marketplace item may include license information accessible from:

1. The item detail page
2. The marketplace.getLicense method for programmatic access

Open Source Compliance

Users are responsible for:

• Complying with all applicable open-source licenses
• Reviewing source code and dependencies before production use
• Verifying license terms for their specific use case

API Reference

Browse Methods

Method	Parameters	Description
marketplace.getItems	{ vertical?, type?, search? }	List items with optional filters
marketplace.getItem	itemId	Get a single item by ID
marketplace.getVerticals	(none)	Get verticals with item counts
marketplace.getReviews	listingId	Get reviews for an item
marketplace.getLicense	appName	Get license information
marketplace.isDeployed	marketplaceItemId	Check if item is deployed
marketplace.getDeployedItems	(none)	List all user's deployed items

Deployment Methods

Method	Parameters	Description
marketplace.getDeployConfig	appName	Fetch deploy.json configuration from S3
marketplace.getAvailableAddons	(none)	List add-ons available for deployment
marketplace.getAvailableModels	(none)	List AI models available for deployment
marketplace.deploy	appName, config	Deploy a marketplace item
marketplace.getDeploymentStatus	appId	Check deployment progress
marketplace.cancelDeployment	marketplaceItemId	Cancel in-progress deployment
marketplace.clearDeploymentProgress	marketplaceItemId	Reset deployment state

Admin Methods

Method	Parameters	Description
marketplace.createListing	listing	Create a new marketplace item (admin only)
marketplace.updateListing	listingId, updates	Update an existing item (admin only)
marketplace.deleteListing	listingId	Delete a marketplace item (admin only)

Review Methods

Method	Parameters	Description
marketplace.addReview	listingId, { rating, title, comment }	Submit a review
marketplace.getReviews	listingId	Get all reviews for an item

tip

Start with a marketplace item closest to your needs, then customize the source code in the auto-created project. This is faster than building from scratch and ensures best practices are followed.