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title: What is Sim?
description: Sim is a unified workspace for building and operating AI systems — data, workflows, and the integrations that connect them to the outside world.
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Sim is a unified workspace for **building and operating AI systems**. Everything you make lives in one place, and everything connects.

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## The workspace

A **workspace** is a collection of shared resources and the workflows that use them.

- **Resources** are your data: [tables](/academy/tables/intro) (structured records), [knowledge bases](/academy/knowledge-bases/intro) (searchable memory), and [files](/academy/files/intro) (documents and media).
- **Workflows** are your processes — the agents and automations that read those resources, act, and write results back.

Everything in a workspace can see everything else in it. A workflow reads a table, searches a knowledge base, produces a file — and the next workflow picks up where it left off.

## Integrations connect you to the outside world

**Integrations** are plugins. They let your resources and workflows reach services beyond Sim — send a Slack message, read a Gmail inbox, write a row to a CRM, call any API. You connect an account once, and any workflow can use it.

So the whole picture is small: a workspace is **data + processes**, integrations plug it into **everything else**, and the rest of this course is just learning each piece and watching them compose.

## Related documentation

- [Introduction](/introduction)
- [Getting started](/getting-started)
