# Introduction

Auto Lab works toward a goal you describe, checks in with you when it needs a decision, and learns from its own work.

Canonical page: https://app.auto-lab.ai/docs

Auto Lab is an AI coworker for running part of your business. You describe an outcome in a sentence, such
as "qualify 20 inbound leads a week". Auto Lab plans the first week with you and does the work across the
days that follow. It asks for you only when it needs a decision, a login or an approval.

Each outcome is a **goal**. A goal has its own agent, its own plan, one running conversation and a record of
everything it knows and has changed. Goals live in your **organization**, next to the people who work on them.

## How a goal runs

1. **Describe.** You write the goal in a sentence or two.
2. **Set up together.** The goal's agent asks only what it still needs: which tools to use, where to reach you,
   and how much it may do on its own.
3. **Launch.** You approve a plan for the first week. Auto Lab schedules its check-ins and starts.
4. **Work.** The agent works through the plan, hands research, writing, browsing and code to task agents, and
   posts progress in the goal's Chat and in the channel you picked.
5. **Needs you.** Approvals, reviews and your own tasks collect in one list on the goal's Overview, and the
   agent's questions wait above the Chat composer. When you are away, they reach you in the channel you picked.
6. **Learn.** After its work, the agent notes what went well and what went wrong. Small lessons apply
   right away and can be undone. Bigger changes wait for your approval.

## Where to start

- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart): Sign in, describe your first goal and launch its first week.
- [How Auto Lab works](/docs/how-it-works): The ideas behind goals, Chat, the Brain and approvals, in one page.

## Guides

- [Working with goals](/docs/goals): Set up, follow and steer a goal from its Overview and Chat.
- [What's in the Brain](/docs/brain): What the goal's agents know, and how that changes over time.
- [Connecting tools](/docs/connect): Connectors, channels, website logins and secrets.
- [Organizations and members](/docs/organization): People, roles, access and usage.
- [Developers](/docs/developers/cli): The CLI, the goal's repository, the manifest, MCP and the API.

> **Asking for help**
>
> Email [hello@auto-lab.ai](mailto:hello@auto-lab.ai) with what you expected and what happened. Include the
> goal's name and a link to the page you were on.