packbit combines the power of PowerShell with the simplicity of low-code. Build a package from blocks, then publish it straight into the platform you deploy with.
The problem
Most teams are running dozens of them at once, by hand.
There is no shared standard and no way to review a package before it lands on a production endpoint. The portfolio grows anyway.
Packaging used to land on a desk now and then. Today it is a queue, and every item in it is a bespoke PowerShell script that somebody has to write, test, and then maintain for years after its author has moved on.
Sound familiar? Then you already know why packbit exists.
See how packbit fixes itWhy packbit
From manual scripting to a standardized, visual packaging process
packbit keeps everything that makes PowerShell powerful and removes the part that doesn't scale: writing the same logic by hand, application after application.
Assemble install, uninstall, and repair logic from blocks instead of writing every PowerShell command by hand. The structure of a package is visible at a glance, and the next person can read it without reverse-engineering a script.
Packages are built on the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit, the deployment standard your team already trusts and knows how to debug.
A finished package goes straight into your deployment platform. For anything else, packbit hands you a standard PSADT package and nothing new to stand up.
packbit doesn't replace PowerShell, it makes it easier to use. The generated script is right there, and advanced users keep the full language.
Every package follows the same shape across admins, teams, and environments, so a colleague can pick one up and understand it in a minute.
Turn recurring logic like licence files, service handling, and cleanup into building blocks, then drop them into the next package.
Analyze existing packages, transform them, and carry them into a new environment. The tedious part is automated; the judgement calls stay with you.
Changing platforms
Move applications between environments without rebuilding from scratch
When environments do change, packbit works from the packages you already have. A migration is a diff, not a rewrite.
See what the engine doesHow it works
From an empty package to a deployed application
The same process for every application, whether it is a simple MSI or a vendor installer with a decade of accumulated quirks.
Add the steps the installation actually needs: copy a file, run the setup, remove a shortcut. The sequence reads as a list, not as a page of script.
Requirements, dependencies, exit codes and install behaviour are values you fill in, not code you write. Whoever opens the package next reads the intent instead of reconstructing it.
Point the migration engine at the packages you already have. It analyzes each one, transforms it to the target standard, and lists the steps that still need a decision.
The result is a standard package. packbit publishes it straight into your deployment platform, or hands it to you to ship the way you already do. No new deployment infrastructure to stand up.
See it in action
The package and the generated script it produces
Build the sequence on the left, and read the exact PowerShell it produces on the right, before the package ever reaches a test machine.
## MARK: Install
# Copy configuration files
Copy-ADTFile -Path "$envProgramFilesX86\packbit\HwPlugin.ini" `
-Destination "$envProgramData\packbit\packbit"
# Install the application
Start-ADTProcess -FilePath "$($adtSession.DirFiles)\setup.exe" `
-ArgumentList '/S /v"/qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress"'
# Remove folder
Remove-ADTFolder -Path "$envProgramFilesX86\packbit\Temp"This one is live: add a block, edit a parameter, reorder the sequence, and the PowerShell follows.
Integrations
packbit publishes into the platform you already run, instead of asking you to replace it
A finished package goes straight into your deployment platform. Anything without a connector gets a standard PSADT package, deployed the way you deploy everything else.
Built on
Publishes into
Deploys through
Ships as
No connector for your platform yet? The output is still a plain PSADT package. If your infrastructure can run PowerShell, it can run a packbit package.
Why now
Packaging used to be a task. It's now a queue.
The queue gets longer while the deadlines get shorter. Manual scripting was never going to survive that.
Every trend in endpoint management adds packaging work, and none of them add packaging capacity. Standardization and automation stop being nice-to-have once the backlog outgrows the team. For most organizations that already happened.
Talk to us about your backlogOne application is enough to see the difference.
Scripting is getting too complex to hold in one person's head. packbit turns it into a process you can standardize, automate, and publish from.