Tale documentation
Tale is the orchestrator for AI agents. Start with the quickstart, follow the get-started journey for your role, or jump into the feature reference.
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You chat with models over your own documents, build agents that handle a job end to end, run automations in the background, and manage customer conversations from one inbox — with your choice of AI providers and your data pinned to a region you control.
Every feature, API, and role is identical across the two editions; the only difference is who runs the stack. Start with the quickstart, then follow the journey that matches your role.
Pick your journey
Four day-one journeys, one per role. Each takes about 15 minutes and ends with something working.
I use Tale
Your first chat, your first document, your first project — the member's first day.
I build agents
Publish a minimal agent and watch it answer in chat — the editor's first day.
I integrate with Tale
Mint an API key and make your first authenticated request — the developer's first day.
I run the workspace
Set up the workspace, invite the team, connect a provider — the admin's first day.
Pick your edition
Cloud
Tale operates the stack — pick this when running infrastructure is not where the team should spend its hours.
Self-hosted
Install Tale on your own VPC, on-premises hardware, or in an air-gapped environment.
Go deeper
Platform
The canonical feature reference, identical for Cloud and self-hosted.
Tutorials
Role-indexed walks from "I want to do X" to a working result.
Develop
REST API, webhooks, integration SDK, contributor workflows.
Where this fits
Once you have walked a get-started journey, the rest of the docs sit one click away: Platform is the canonical reference for every user-visible feature, and Tutorials go deeper on complete tasks. Source, issues, and release announcements live at GitHub.