# Ainomos

> Documentation for Ainomos, the governance layer for your AI.

- [What is Ainomos?](https://docs.ainomos.ch/index.md): The governance layer for your AI. Models change. Decisions remain.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/quickstart.md): Go from a new organisation to its first answer with sources: sign up, run the setup assistant, invite people, add documents and ask.
- [Key concepts](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/concepts.md): The ideas Ainomos is built on, in plain words, with a link to the page that explains each one.
- [Finding your way](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/finding-your-way.md): A tour of the Ainomos screen: the sidebar and its areas, the room switcher, search, the inbox, the account menu and the language switch.
- [Signing in](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/signing-in.md): Sign in at your organisation's address, accept an invitation, use company sign-in or an Ainomos account, and understand sessions, sign-out and sign-in messages.
- [Asking questions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/chat/asking-questions.md): Ask a question in a room, follow up on it, and find your past conversations again.
- [Reading answers](https://docs.ainomos.ch/chat/reading-answers.md): See what an answer is based on, open its sources, and know what to do when it has no basis or is blocked.
- [Inbox](https://docs.ainomos.ch/chat/inbox.md): Decide what waits for you, follow your own requests, and see what happens to what you submitted.
- [Knowledge overview](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/overview.md): See everything a room has decided, must follow and can cite, and how that knowledge reaches answers.
- [Documents](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/documents.md): Understand how Ainomos reads a document, keep its details right, and know when answers quote it.
- [Decisions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/decisions.md): Record what your room has decided, get it approved, and keep it current so people and agents follow it.
- [Rules](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/rules.md): Set what must always or never happen in a room, choose how strictly each rule acts, and keep rules current.
- [Exceptions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/exceptions.md): Request a time-limited, approved departure from a rule, decide on requests, and see which exceptions are active.
- [Dreaming](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/dreaming.md): Let Ainomos look after a room's knowledge in the background, and review what it proposes.
- [Knowledge Health](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/knowledge-health.md): Find and fix what is wrong with a room's knowledge, and read the room's knowledge graph.
- [Memory and sources](https://docs.ainomos.ch/knowledge/memory.md): Understand what a room's answers draw on: its own memory, the rooms above it, and shared reference material.
- [Import overview](https://docs.ainomos.ch/import/overview.md): Bring existing documents, rules and decision files into a room, and know what happens to each file.
- [Import documents](https://docs.ainomos.ch/import/documents.md): Add PDF, Word, Markdown and text files to a room so answers can cite them, and see how Ainomos reads each file.
- [Import decision files](https://docs.ainomos.ch/import/decision-files.md): Bring existing decision records into a room as drafts, and know what Ainomos reads from each file.
- [Models in Ainomos](https://docs.ainomos.ch/models/overview.md): Which models Ainomos uses, where they come from, and which rooms may use them.
- [Connect a model](https://docs.ainomos.ch/models/connect-a-model.md): Add a provider or your own model on the Models page, set the defaults, and manage limits and retired models.
- [Usage and budgets](https://docs.ainomos.ch/models/usage-and-budgets.md): See what your rooms use and spend, how room budgets stop spending, and how to ask for more budget.
- [Connect your AI apps](https://docs.ainomos.ch/apps/connect-apps.md): Connect a personal AI app such as Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code to Ainomos, and manage or withdraw its access.
- [Organisation apps](https://docs.ainomos.ch/apps/organisation-apps.md): Add apps and bots that work for your organisation rather than for one person, decide where they work, and switch them off.
- [What connected apps can do](https://docs.ainomos.ch/apps/what-apps-can-do.md): What an AI app connected to Ainomos can read, check and propose, and which rules every call follows.
- [Settings](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/settings-overview.md): Find every organisation-wide setting in Ainomos, see what it is for, and jump to the page that explains it.
- [Rooms](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/rooms.md): Create rooms, set them up in the room details, and see what passes down the room tree.
- [Users](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/users.md): Invite people, give them rooms and organisation roles, and deactivate or delete accounts.
- [Roles and permissions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/roles.md): Organisation roles, room responsibilities, and who can do what in Ainomos.
- [Identity & SSO](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/identity-and-sso.md): Connect your company's identity provider so people sign in with their company accounts, and map its groups to roles in Ainomos.
- [Branding and language](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/branding-and-language.md): Put your organisation's name, logo and colours on Ainomos, and choose the language of the content Ainomos writes.
- [File storage](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/file-storage.md): Connect your own S3-compatible storage so that Ainomos keeps the original file of every imported document.
- [System status and maintenance](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/system-status.md): See whether everything Ainomos depends on works, plan maintenance, and decide who is emailed and through which mail server.
- [Data classes](https://docs.ainomos.ch/privacy/data-classes.md): Choose how sensitive a room's content is, and know what that choice controls.
- [Personal data](https://docs.ainomos.ch/privacy/personal-data.md): How Ainomos finds personal data, when it masks or withholds it, and how platform admins tune what counts.
- [User visibility](https://docs.ainomos.ch/privacy/visibility.md): Decide whether ordinary members may browse knowledge, decisions and the graph in their rooms.
- [Audit log](https://docs.ainomos.ch/privacy/audit-log.md): Find out what Ainomos records for every answer, agent action and governance change, and how to check that the records were not changed.
- [Log shipping](https://docs.ainomos.ch/privacy/log-shipping.md): Send your organisation's audit events to Splunk, or let your SIEM fetch them, as Ainomos JSON or OCSF.
- [Glossary](https://docs.ainomos.ch/reference/glossary.md): The words Ainomos uses, explained in one or two sentences each.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/reference/faq.md): Short answers to the questions that come up when a company evaluates Ainomos, with links to the full explanation.


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