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Key concepts
Teams, projects and workspaces; flows, components and runs; credits. The words used everywhere in chainz.
Team, project, workspace
Everything in chainz has a place, in three levels:
| Level | What it is |
|---|---|
| Team | People who work together. Members share the team's projects and its credits. |
| Project | A body of work, owned by you (Personal: only you have access, paid with your credits) or by a team (its members have access, paid with the team's credits). |
| Workspace | A space inside a project. Every flow, chat, file and schedule lives in exactly one workspace: the active one when it was created. |
The chip in the header shows where you are (team / project · workspace); click it to switch. See Workspaces.
Flow
A flow is a set of components linked on a canvas. When it runs, each component receives what the components before it produced, does its job and passes its result on. A flow can be run from the canvas, from the form view on a phone, on a schedule or from the API.
Component
One step of a flow: a model call, a web search, reading a file, a condition, publishing a post. Components are grouped in the canvas's left panel by Components (categories such as Input / Output, Processing, Logic) and by Bundles (one per service, such as Models, Search, Files, Instagram). See Components.
Run
One execution of a flow. Every run, wherever it started (canvas, playground, schedule, API), is kept in History › Runs with its steps, inputs, outputs and cost. Every result of every component is in Outputs.
Credits
AI calls are paid with credits: your own for personal projects, the team's for a team's projects. Building, editing and storing are free; only calls to models and paid tools use credits. See Credits.
Last updated 2026-10-13