# What Troopy is and how it works > The parts of Troopy, where each part runs, what Troopy does not do, and where each place of the app is. Troopy gives your business a troop of AI teammates. Each teammate has a job, works in the app at any hour, and asks a person before it does a thing that people rely on. This page tells what the parts of Troopy are, where each part runs, and where to find each place of the app. ## The parts of Troopy | Part | What it is | | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Organization | Your company in Troopy. It owns the people, their roles and the AI plans. | | Workspace | One business, brand or client. Its teammates, tasks, docs, keys, cloud computer and plan live there. | | Teammate | An AI teammate with a role, such as Content writer or Outreach. It works on tasks and talks in chat. | | Troop | All the teammates of a workspace. | | Chief of Staff | The lead teammate. Every workspace has one. It answers you first, plans work and hands it on. | | Person | A human of the organization: an owner, an admin, a member, an approver, a viewer or a guest. | | Brain | What the troop knows about the business: docs, sources, memory files and facts. | | Products | The tools of the business in Troopy, such as Docs, Email, the CRM, Analytics and Surveys. | ## How work moves 1. A person asks for work in a chat, in the troop chat or as a task. A routine or a trigger can start work too. 2. The work becomes a task on the board, with a teammate who does it. 3. The teammate works in runs. A run reads the brain, uses its tools and writes its answer on the task. 4. When the teammate needs a person, the task waits in **Needs you**. A person answers, approves or sends it back. 5. When the work is done, the task goes to **In review** or **Done**. The teammate posts the result in the troop chat. A teammate never sends, posts, pays or deletes a thing that people rely on with no yes. An owner or admin can give a grant for some work, with limits. See [Stay in control of your troop](/docs/control). ## What runs where | Part | Where it runs | | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | The app | troopy.ai, in your browser. | | The runs of teammates | The cloud computer of the workspace. Each workspace has its own. | | The AI | The AI plan that your organization already pays for, signed in on that computer. | | The browser of a teammate | A Chrome of its own on the cloud computer. You can watch it live. | | Your data | Troopy's database. Troopy seals each key and each vault value. | The sign-in of your AI plan stays on the cloud computer. Troopy keeps no copy of it in its database. See [Connect your AI plan](/docs/ai-plan). ## When teammates work - When a person asks: in a chat, in the troop chat, in a comment with an @mention, or with a task. - On a schedule: a routine runs at its days and time. See [Schedule work with routines](/docs/routines). - When something happens: a trigger starts a teammate on an event. See [Start work when something happens](/docs/triggers). - When a teammate hands work on: the Chief of Staff gives a part of a big job to another teammate. Teammates keep working when you close the app. Each run uses your AI plan, and each teammate has limits for each day. See [Limits and defaults](/docs/limits). ## A tour of the app ### The sidebar | Part | What it does | | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Workspace menu | At the top. Switch the workspace, and open **Settings**, **Profile** and **Sign out**. | | **Search** | Opens ⌘K: go to a page, find a task, a doc or a teammate, or do a common action. | | **Home** | Your message box to the troop, what needs you, and the routines of today. | | **Needs you** | The questions, approvals, reviews and drafts that wait for you. | | **Tasks** | The board and the list of the work. **Projects** is under it. | | **Calendar** and **Routines** | The work that runs on a schedule or on an event. | | **Products** | The products that you pinned, and **See all**, which opens the Products page. | | **Your troop** | The troop chat, each teammate with what it does now, and **Hire a teammate**. | ### The dock The dock is the row of buttons at the bottom of the sidebar. | Button | What it opens | | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | **?** | **Help and support**, **What's new** and **Activity**. | | Brain | The brain of the workspace. | | Apps | **Settings** > **Apps**, where you connect services. | | Skills | The skills of the troop. | | Bell | Your notifications. | | Settings | **Settings**. | The button beside the workspace menu folds the sidebar to a rail of icons. On a phone, the sidebar opens from the menu button. ### The page of a teammate Select a teammate in the sidebar to open its chat. Its header has the switch to **Overview**, **Call**, **Watch computer** and **Configure**. **Overview** shows its numbers, its drafts, its routines and its work. ## What Troopy does not do - It does not send an email, post, pay or merge code with no yes, unless an owner or admin gave a grant. - It does not show a vault value to a teammate. A teammate uses a login by reference only. - It does not merge code by itself. A person releases, or a grant of an owner or admin does. - It does not reach into a service that you did not connect. ## Related - [Get started: from sign-up to your first task](/docs/get-started) - [Give your troop work that it can finish](/docs/give-work) - [Stay in control of your troop](/docs/control) - [Glossary](/docs/glossary)