# Cadence

> Always-on AI teammates for your business.

- [Cadence](https://docs.usecadence.gg/index.md): Always-on AI teammates for your business.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.usecadence.gg/quickstart.md): Your first bot, working, in about five minutes.
- [Concepts](https://docs.usecadence.gg/concepts.md): Seven ideas that explain how Cadence works.
- [Bots](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/overview.md): An always-on AI teammate with its own instructions, memory and computer.
- [Instructions](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/instructions.md): Tell a bot who it is and how to work.
- [Instruction files](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/instruction-files.md): Documents a bot always reads, with a history that is never deleted.
- [Memory](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/memory.md): What a bot remembers, and how you see and change it.
- [Skills](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/skills.md): Reusable recipes your bots follow.
- [Models](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/models.md): Connect your own Claude or ChatGPT account, an API key, or your own server.
- [Look](https://docs.usecadence.gg/bots/look.md): Give a bot a 3D character or a photo.
- [Chats and groups](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/chats-and-groups.md): Talk to one bot, or put several in a room together.
- [Computers](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/computers.md): A Linux computer with a browser, where bots do real work.
- [Channels](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/channels.md): Reach your bots from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and Feishu.
- [Routines](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/routines.md): Work a bot does on a schedule, or when something happens.
- [Approvals](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/approvals.md): Decide what bots may do on their own and what needs a person.
- [Integrations](https://docs.usecadence.gg/work/integrations.md): Connect the apps and tools your bots work with.
- [Companies and people](https://docs.usecadence.gg/teams/companies-and-people.md): Your company, your team, and who can do what.
- [Spaces](https://docs.usecadence.gg/teams/spaces.md): Separate areas inside a company, each with its own bots.
- [Self-hosting overview](https://docs.usecadence.gg/self-hosting/overview.md): Run Cadence on your own server.
- [Deploy with Docker Compose](https://docs.usecadence.gg/self-hosting/docker-compose.md): One server, automatic HTTPS, bot computers on the same machine.
- [Configuration](https://docs.usecadence.gg/self-hosting/configuration.md): The settings a Cadence server reads from its environment.
- [API introduction](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/introduction.md): Call the same procedures the Cadence app uses.
- [Authentication](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/authentication.md): Sign in once, then send a bearer token with every call.
- [Errors](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/errors.md): The error shape, and what to do about each code.
- [Streaming](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/streaming.md): Follow a chat live while the bot works.
- [Bots](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/bots.md): List, create, update and archive bots.
- [Chats](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/threads.md): Send messages to a bot and read its replies.
- [Instruction files](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/instruction-files.md): Manage the documents a bot reads on every run.
- [Memory](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/memory.md): Read, edit and export what bots remember.
- [Routines](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/routines.md): Create and manage work a bot does on its own.
- [Computer](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/computer.md): Start, stop and work with a bot's computer.
- [Models](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/models.md): Connect model providers and choose models.
- [Approvals](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/approvals.md): Read and set approval mode and rules.
- [People and spaces](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/people.md): Invite your team and manage spaces.
- [Inbound webhooks](https://docs.usecadence.gg/api/reference/webhooks.md): Start a bot's routines from another system.


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