September 2026 DIGFM - AI FileMaker Dev Odyssey

This is the September 2026 meeting for DIGFM (Developer Innovation Group in FileMaker).

This month is an online/remote meeting. To view the ZOOM link you must RSVP via this Meetup group (and check your email), or view the link for CLARIS COMMUNITY EVENT - DIGFM (see below).
5:00 PM (PST) for social chat and discuss topics of interests.
5:30 PM (PST) for the presentation.

MAIN PRESENTATION – Vince Menanno, AI FileMaker Dev Odyssey
Most FileMaker solutions didn’t get complicated overnight. They evolved!
One developer built something. Then another developer modified it. A user asked for something else. Features were added, changed, replaced—and sometimes forgotten. Two years later, you may be looking at a solution with thousands of scripts, fields, relationships, calculations, and dependencies.

And you’re asking questions like:

• Why does this work the way it does?
• What depends on this?
• What can I safely change?
• And what isn’t needed anymore?

Understanding what you already have is often the hardest part of developing and evolving a mature FileMaker solution. And now we’re asking AI to help us develop in those same solutions. That creates an interesting challenge.
AI can generate code incredibly quickly—but to be truly useful, it needs to understand the structure, relationships, dependencies, logic, and history of the system it is working with. This is where InspectorPro can help.

InspectorPro has always been about understanding FileMaker solutions. Over the years, that journey has evolved and continues to evolve.

DDR → XML → Incremental Analysis → Current-State Analysis → Visualization → Collaboration → AI / MCP → ???

InspectorPro 10 supports the next steps in that evolution.

We’ll look at how understanding your solution can help you reduce technical debt, make better development decisions, and prepare your FileMaker solutions for a future where AI-assisted and agentic development becomes part of the everyday development workflow.
We’ll cover what is new and exciting with InspectorPro 10, while discussing what the potential future looks like for FileMaker developers.

SPEAKER: VINCENZO MENANNO
With 30+ years of full-time experience as a master consultant, as well as a dedicated developer of FileMaker-related products, Vince Menanno is widely recognized as a true pioneer in the Claris community. He has been a featured speaker at countless industry events including Claris Engage, FileMaker DevCon, FM Conférence, CQDF, dotFMP, EngageU and dozens of FileMaker Developer meetups.

As a community leader, Vince prioritizes innovation and knowledge-sharing through research, mentoring and presentations. He’s been honored with the Claris Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement, received FileMaker’s Mad Dog Public Relations Award, and helped Beezwax earn a Claris Excellence Award for Advocacy.

Not only is Vince a leader in his field, he’s wonderful to work with. Clients respect him highly and he is an absolute inspiration to junior developers, who look to him for his creative genius and warm mentorship. In addition to his work as Chief Innovation Officer at Beezwax, Vince is the author of InspectorPro, a leading FileMaker development tool that provides in-depth FileMaker solution analysis.

Born to an Italian family and having grown up in Montreal, Vince splits time between Oakland's hills, Silicon's valley and Florida's shores, along with his wife, son and daughter. His ongoing passions include innovation, architecture, data visualization, sharp knives and vehicles in space.

SCHEDULE
Social time from 5:00pm to 5:30pm PST
Presentation and Q&A via Zoom from 5:30pm to about 7:00pm PST.

CLARIS COMMUNITY EVENTS - DIGFM:
https://community.claris.com/en/s/group/0F90H000000gDZ4SAM/digfm

ONLINE ATTENDEES - ***ZOOM***
To view the ***ZOOM*** link you must RSVP via this Meetup group, or view the link when its posted on CLARIS COMMUNITY EVENTS - DIGFM (see above).

DIGFM YouTube channel (please subscribe!):
https://www.youtube.com/c/DIGFM