# Help Center

> Guides and concepts for building data pipelines and live dashboards in Hodoflow.

Hodoflow is a workflow-native data platform. Data arrives from the systems you
already run — webhooks, message streams, scheduled API calls — visual workflows
clean and reshape it, and the results land in a warehouse your dashboards read
from in real time.

The whole product is one loop with three stages:

- **Ingest.** Something outside Hodoflow sends data in, or a workflow goes out
  and fetches it. Either way, what arrived is recorded exactly as it arrived.
- **Map.** A workflow you drew on a canvas pulls that payload apart, calculates
  the fields you actually want, and maps them onto the business entities you
  care about — orders, customers, tickets.
- **Analyze.** The mapped results become an append-only history, and dashboards
  recompute the moment new data shows up.

No glue code and no SQL anywhere in that loop.

## Product map

The left sidebar is the whole app.

| Section | What it is for |
|---|---|
| **Home** | Opens on Overview — workflow run states and data model activity for a time range you choose, plus recent throughput. |
| **Dashboards** | Your dashboards, and the widgets on them that update live as data lands. **Widget Library** holds standalone widgets you can reuse across dashboards or embed elsewhere. |
| **Workflows** | The visual builder and every workflow you have saved, with its versions. **Monitor** is the live run history. |
| **Warehouse** | Your data models and the records mapped into them. Every record keeps its full change history. |
| **Connectors** | Integrations between your organization and outside services. **Inbound** is for external services sending data to Hodoflow, **Outbound** for credentials Hodoflow uses when it calls out, and **API Specs** for OpenAPI descriptions you have imported. |
| **Settings** | **Organization**, **Workspaces**, **Users**, and **Service Accounts**. |

Press `Cmd`/`Ctrl` + `K` anywhere — or click the search bar in the top bar — to
jump straight to a workflow, dashboard, data model, connector, widget, or
person.

Everything you create belongs to the workspace named beside your organization
in the top bar. Switching workspaces switches the whole app to a different set
of workflows, dashboards, and data.

## Start here

- [Build your first workflow](/help/first-workflow) — sign up, take the tour, and get
  your first workflow running.
- [Persisting data](/help/data-dashboards/persisting-data) — how data reaches the
  warehouse and what it keeps, which is the mental model the rest of the docs
  assume.
- [Account and access](/help/account-access) —
  how access, isolation, and trials work.

## Guides

- [Workflows](/help/workflows) — the builder, step types, versioning,
  and activation.
- [Triggers and webhooks](/help/workflows/triggers-and-webhooks) — what starts a
  run.
- [Data models](/help/data-dashboards/data-models) — describing the shape of what you
  keep.
- [Persisting data](/help/data-dashboards/persisting-data) — mapping messy payloads onto
  that shape and saving the result.
- [Dashboards](/help/data-dashboards/dashboards) — widgets, live updates, and time
  ranges.
- [Embeds](/help/data-dashboards/embeds) — putting a live dashboard in someone else's
  page.
- [Credentials and connections](/help/credentials-connections) — credentials, inbound keys, and
  imported API Specs.
- [Service accounts](/help/credentials-connections/service-accounts) — machine access to your
  organization.

## Building against the API

Every page here is also served as plain markdown, so an assistant can read the
same documentation you do.

If you are integrating rather than clicking, the
[developer portal](/developer/) covers the JSON API, the GraphQL endpoint,
authentication, and webhook ingestion.