# Tale

> The Sovereign AI Platform — Local AI models, agents, skills, and automations — on your own infrastructure, connected to your data. ISO 27001 & SOC 2 certified. Swiss-based.

## Docs

- [Tale Cloud](https://docs.tale.dev/cloud/index.md): Managed Tale — hosted by us in Switzerland and the EU, with the same features as the self-hosted edition.
- [AI-assisted development](https://docs.tale.dev/develop/ai-assisted-development.md): Use AI-powered editors to create and edit agents, workflows, and integrations with full platform awareness.
- [API reference](https://docs.tale.dev/develop/api-reference.md): REST API endpoints for RAG, Crawler, and Platform services.
- [Contributing Docker guide](https://docs.tale.dev/develop/contributing-docker.md): How to modify Dockerfiles, run container tests, and keep images lean.
- [Webhooks](https://docs.tale.dev/develop/webhooks.md): Invoke workflows and agents from external systems via signed HTTP requests.
- [Welcome to Tale](https://docs.tale.dev/index.md): Sovereign AI platform — chat, knowledge, agents, and automations, available as a managed cloud service or fully self-hosted.
- [Branding](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/branding.md): Customise the platform name, logo, favicon, and brand colours for your organisation.
- [Governance](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/governance.md): Organisation-wide AI policies, limits, security controls, and audit logs.
- [Members and roles](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/members-and-roles.md): Manage who can access your organisation and what they can do.
- [Administer](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/overview.md): Organisation-level settings — members, authentication, providers, branding, governance, analytics.
- [AI providers](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/providers.md): Connect Tale to AI models through providers — OpenAI-compatible endpoints managed from the Settings UI.
- [Teams](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/teams.md): Organise members into teams and scope knowledge visibility.
- [Two-factor authentication](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/two-factor-authentication.md): Require a second factor on sign-in, enrol your own account, and reset a member who lost their device.
- [Usage analytics](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/admin/usage-analytics.md): Time-based analytics on token consumption, cost, and workflow performance.
- [Agent concepts](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/agents/concepts.md): The mental model behind Tale agents — instructions, knowledge, tools, and models.
- [Create an agent](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/agents/create.md): Create specialized AI assistants with custom instructions, knowledge, and tools.
- [Image-generation agents](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/agents/image-generation.md): Configure agents that generate or edit images with FLUX, Imagen, Nano Banana, GPT-Image, or any compatible model.
- [Agent versions](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/agents/versions.md): Iterate on a live agent safely using drafts, publishing, and rollback.
- [Automation concepts](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/automations/concepts.md): How workflows, steps, triggers, and variables fit together.
- [Execution logs](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/automations/execution-logs.md): Inspect past workflow runs, debug failures, and rerun with tweaks.
- [Automation metrics](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/automations/metrics.md): Usage and performance KPIs across every automation in your organisation.
- [Triggers](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/automations/triggers.md): How workflows start — schedules, events, webhooks, and manual runs.
- [Automations](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/automations/workflows.md): Build and run multi-step workflows with triggers, conditions, loops, and AI steps.
- [Using agents in chat](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/chat/agents-in-chat.md): Pick specialised agents from the chat input to change how Tale answers.
- [Arena mode](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/chat/arena-mode.md): Compare two AI models side by side on the same prompt.
- [Chat attachments](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/chat/attachments.md): Attach files to chat messages so the AI can read images, documents, and code.
- [AI chat](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/chat/basics.md): Use the AI chat assistant to explore data, attach files, and select agents.
- [What you can build](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/developer/overview.md): An orientation for agent and automation builders.
- [Editor role](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/editor/overview.md): What Editors can do in Tale — manage content, approve pending actions, reply to customer conversations.
- [Platform overview](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/index.md): Product documentation for Tale — features, roles, and organisation admin. Applies identically to Cloud and self-hosted.
- [Integrations overview](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/integrations/overview.md): Connect Tale to REST APIs, SQL databases, email, and cloud storage.
- [Website crawling](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/knowledge/crawling.md): Configure Tale's crawler to index external websites for AI search.
- [Structured data](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/knowledge/structured-data.md): Manage products, customers, and vendors as structured records the AI can query.
- [Getting started](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/member/overview.md): Install Tale and open the app — a friendly walkthrough for your first 10 minutes.
- [Your preferences](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/member/preferences.md): Change your password, language, and personal settings.
- [Approvals](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/approvals.md): Review and approve or reject actions queued by automations and agents directly in the chat interface.
- [Canvas](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/canvas.md): View, edit, and revise AI-generated artifacts — HTML, code, SVG, Mermaid diagrams, and markdown — in a dedicated pane that the AI can patch in place.
- [Conversations](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/conversations.md): Manage customer conversations from a unified inbox.
- [Document comparison](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/document-comparison.md): Compare two documents side by side to see additions, deletions, and modifications.
- [Knowledge base](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/knowledge-base.md): Upload, organise, and search documents and crawled websites in your workspace.
- [Prompt library](https://docs.tale.dev/platform/workspace/prompt-library.md): Save, browse, and share reusable prompt templates across your organization.
- [Authentication](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/admin/authentication.md): How authentication works in Tale, including password login, Microsoft Entra ID SSO, and trusted headers.
- [Environment reference](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/configuration/environment-reference.md): Complete reference of all environment variables for configuring Tale.
- [Providers](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/configuration/providers.md): Configure AI model providers via JSON config files, connect self-hosted inference backends, and encrypt secrets with SOPS.
- [Retention configuration](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/configuration/retention.md): Configure how long conversations, files, audit records, and executions are kept.
- [Self-hosted Tale](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/index.md): Run Tale on your own infrastructure — install, configure, operate.
- [Production deployment](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/install/linux-server.md): Deploy Tale to a production server using the Tale CLI with zero-downtime blue-green deployments.
- [Container architecture](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/operate/container-architecture.md): How Tale's Docker images are structured, built, and connected.
- [Operations](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/operate/observability/operations.md): Monitoring, error tracking, logs, database backups, health checks, and container validation.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/operate/observability/troubleshooting.md): Solutions for common issues and where to get help.
- [Release notes format](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/operate/release-notes/format.md): Authoritative format for GitHub release notes on tale-project/tale.
- [Security advisory process](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/operate/security/advisories.md): How Tale coordinates, files, and publishes security-relevant fixes.
- [Platform overview](https://docs.tale.dev/self-hosted/overview.md): Architecture, services, and key capabilities for operators running Tale.
- [Connect a local provider](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/admin/connect-local-provider.md): Add Ollama or vLLM as a Tale AI provider so agents run on fully self-hosted models.
- [Meeting transcription](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/admin/meeting-transcription.md): Capture meeting audio locally with Meetily and summarise through a Tale agent.
- [Word & Excel add-in](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/admin/office-add-in.md): Route an AI panel inside Word and Excel through your Tale instance using Office Agents.
- [Call Tale from a script](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/developer/call-tale-from-a-script.md): Send a chat request to an agent from cURL and Python using Tale's OpenAI-compatible API.
- [Trigger an automation via webhook](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/developer/trigger-automation-via-webhook.md): Wire an external system into a Tale workflow with a signed webhook.
- [Build your first agent end to end](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/editor/first-agent-end-to-end.md): Create a purpose-built agent, attach knowledge, test it, and publish a version.
- [Chat effectively](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/member/chat-effectively.md): Combine agents, attachments, and dictation into a daily Tale workflow.
- [Tutorials](https://docs.tale.dev/tutorials/overview.md): Task-oriented, end-to-end walkthroughs for every Tale role.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://docs.tale.dev/api-reference/openapi.json)

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/tale-project/tale)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/tale-project/tale)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/tale-project/tale)