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title: Tale documentation
description: Tale is the orchestration layer for AI agents. The docs are organised by edition (Cloud or self-hosted), by product area (Platform), and by task (Tutorials, Develop). Pick the entry that matches what you're doing.
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Tale is the orchestration layer for AI agents. You can chat with models over your own documents, build agents that handle a job end to end, run automations in the background, and manage customer conversations from one inbox — with your choice of AI providers and your data pinned to a region you control.

The product ships in two editions; every feature, API, and role is identical between them. The only thing that differs is who runs the stack. Pick your edition, then jump to the section indexed by what you do day to day.

## Pages in this section

**[Cloud](/cloud)** — Tale operates the stack; pick this when running infrastructure is not where the team should spend its hours.

**[Self-hosted](/self-hosted)** — install Tale on your own VPC, on-premises hardware, or in an air-gapped environment.

**[Platform](/platform)** — the canonical product reference, identical for Cloud and self-hosted. Most day-to-day reading lives here.

**[Tutorials](/tutorials/overview)** — role-indexed walks from "I want to do X" to a working result on a fresh instance.

**[Develop](/develop/overview)** — REST API, webhooks, integration SDK, contributor workflows.

## Where this fits

Once you have picked an edition and a role, the rest of the docs sit one click away. If you already know your edition and want the feature reference, go straight to [Platform](/platform) — the canonical documentation for every user-visible feature, identical across both editions. Source, issues, and release announcements live at [GitHub](https://github.com/tale-project/tale).
