Quickstart

Get Vellum answering questions from your first source in about five minutes.

1. Create a workspace

Sign in and create a workspace. Each workspace has its own members, connectors and history.

2. Connect a source

Connectors are read-only. Vellum indexes what the connecting account can see and respects per-document permissions at query time.

curl -X POST https://vellum.example/api/v1/connectors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VELLUM_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"type":"wiki","base_url":"https://wiki.internal","scope":"read"}'

3. Ask a question

Use the chat UI, or call the API directly. Answers include the sources they were drawn from.

curl https://vellum.example/api/v1/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VELLUM_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"q":"What is our refund window for EU customers?"}'

4. Invite your team

Members inherit source permissions automatically — nobody sees an answer built from a document they couldn't open themselves.

Next steps

Read about custom connectors, set up SSO, or explore self-hosting.