> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.getatelier.design/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Atelier is the AI-native studio OS for interior designers.

**Atelier is the AI-native studio operating system for interior designers — the
place you run every project from first inspiration to final invoice, with AI
doing the busywork at every step.**

Interior designers run a remarkably consistent workflow — brief, concept and
mood boards, sourcing and FF\&E specification, client presentation and approvals,
procurement, install, invoicing — yet it's normally spread across four to six
disconnected tools. Atelier brings the whole lifecycle into one place.

The difference is what the software *does*. Other studio tools are filing
cabinets: a nicer place to *put* your boards, specs, and invoices. Atelier is an
assistant that *produces* them. Describe a room and it builds the pinboard with
real, sourceable products. Drop in a supplier link and it extracts the product
into your library. Hand it a brief and it drafts the budget. The designer holds
the taste and judgment; Atelier removes the manual labor around it.

## What Atelier does

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  <Card title="AI Pinboard Builder" icon="wand-magic-sparkles">
    Reads a brief, sources real products from the web, adds them to your
    library, and lays out a client-ready board.
  </Card>

  <Card title="From inspiration to invoice" icon="arrow-right-arrow-left">
    Pinboards, schedules, sourcing, procurement, proposals, and invoicing —
    one connected workflow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The busywork disappears" icon="clock">
    Clipping products, laying out boards, building schedules, and estimating
    budgets are automated, so designers get their hours back for design.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Your taste, amplified" icon="hand-sparkles">
    Atelier is an assistant, not an autopilot. It does the labor; the designer
    makes the calls.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who it's for

Atelier leads with **solo designers and small studios (1–5 people)** — the
segment that feels the busywork most acutely because they *are* the back office.
It expands to **mid-size firms (5–25 designers)** with the roles, trade accounts,
and approvals that multi-project teams rely on.

## About this documentation

This site is the developer documentation for the Atelier platform — how it's
built and how to work on it.

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Get the monorepo running locally in a few minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/architecture/overview">
    How the `web`, `server`, and other apps fit together.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Data model" icon="database" href="/architecture/data-model">
    Studios, clients, projects, pinboards, and products.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agentic pinboard" icon="robot" href="/guides/agentic-pinboard">
    How the AI assistant builds pinboards.
  </Card>
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