A core UN planning module rebuilt in under two weeks with AI assisted development
Inside a United Nations team, we rebuilt a core module of a planning platform used across peace operations as a modern Power Apps Code App, delivered a redesign that had waited years on paper and trained the team to sustain it. From first call to a working, tested solution took under two weeks.
United Nations
2026
Solutions and Skilling
Under two weeks, advisory
A core module rebuilt as a modern Power Apps Code App in under two weeks, with the team trained to carry it on
A United Nations team responsible for a planning and performance platform used across its peace operations.
The situation
The team runs a planning and performance platform used across United Nations peace operations. It worked, but it had barely changed in years. The module we focused on lived inside a dated canvas app and was slow because it loaded far more data than it needed. A full redesign existed in Figma and had never been built. There was no internal full stack capability to take any of it on.
What we did
Build the system, skill the team
Mapped the legacy system
We unpacked the application source, restored a copy of the platform's database into a safe local environment and mapped how the system worked, so every change that followed could be tested against real structures without touching live data.
Rebuilt the module as a Power Apps Code App
We rebuilt the recommendations module from the ground up as a Power Apps Code App: a React and TypeScript application hosted inside the organisation's own Power Platform estate, signing users in with their Microsoft Entra ID and reading live data directly. The team got a fast, modern web app without leaving the governed Microsoft environment its security posture depends on.
Rebuilt the data layer and delivered the redesign
The app reads and writes the same Azure SQL database through a clean stored procedure layer, which solved a connector limitation on the legacy data and gave full create, modify, soft delete and restore across 1,478 live recommendations, with mission and status filtering, keyword search, sortable columns, pagination and CSV export. The Figma redesign that had sat unbuilt for years was matched exactly. The build was published and verified with 16 of 16 automated end-to-end checks, and a rebuilt version of the original app was kept as a fallback.
Trained the team to sustain it
We designed and delivered live training on AI assisted development, built around the exact workflow used on the rebuild: a full slide deck, an instructor guide, a hands on practice repository and working guardrails. Plan before you build, keep secrets and real data out, verify before you release. The aim was for the team to extend the app themselves once we left.
Left the team with everything
The engagement closed with a complete enablement pack: technical documentation for the new module, a step by step deployment runbook, the stored procedures and configuration, a reusable project memory template and recommendations for governance and safe AI use in development.
Outcomes
What the client was left with
- Core module rebuilt as a Power Apps Code App and verified with 16 of 16 automated checks passing
- A Figma redesign that had waited years on paper, built and matched exactly
- Full create, modify, soft delete and restore across 1,478 live recommendations
- The team trained live on AI assisted development, with working guardrails
- A full handover pack covering documentation, deployment, the data layer and governance
Power Apps Code Apps, React, TypeScript, Vite, Fluent UI, Azure SQL, Power Platform CLI
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