> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.chevre.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Chevre Platform Overview: Key Concepts Explained
> Learn how Chevre's core building blocks — organizations, workspaces, projects, workflows, and automations — fit together to power your team's work.
Chevre is a modern workflow management platform that gives your team a single place to build, run, and monitor the processes that drive your business. Whether you're coordinating cross-functional projects, automating repetitive tasks, or tracking work in real time, every capability in Chevre is organized around a clear hierarchy of concepts — from the top-level organization down to the individual automations that do the heavy lifting.
## Platform Hierarchy
Every resource in Chevre lives at a specific level of the following hierarchy. Understanding this structure helps you organize your team's work in the most effective way.
| Level | What it represents |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Organization** | The root account for your company. All workspaces, billing, and members belong to your organization. |
| **Workspaces** | Isolated environments within your organization — typically one per team, department, or client. |
| **Projects** | Containers within a workspace that group related workflows and resources by use case or product area. |
| **Workflows** | Structured sequences of steps that define how work gets done inside a project. |
| **Automations** | Rules and triggers attached to a workflow that execute steps automatically based on events or schedules. |
The relationship is strictly hierarchical: your organization holds workspaces, each workspace holds projects, each project holds workflows, and automations run within those workflows.
## Core Concepts at a Glance
A workspace is the top-level container for your team's projects, members, and settings. Invite collaborators, configure integrations, and manage billing all in one place.
Projects organize related workflows and resources inside a workspace. Use them to separate work by team, product area, or client engagement.
Chevre's role-based access control lets you define exactly what each team member can see and do — at both the workspace and project level.
Ready to build? Follow the step-by-step guide to create, configure, and run your first workflow in under five minutes.
## How the Concepts Relate
Chevre's hierarchy is designed so that each layer adds a meaningful boundary around your work.
**Workspaces contain projects.** A workspace represents a team or environment boundary. Everything inside it — projects, members, integrations, and billing — is scoped to that workspace. Members of one workspace cannot see another workspace's projects unless they are explicitly invited.
**Projects contain workflows.** A project groups related workflows together under a shared context, such as a product area or a recurring process. Projects also carry their own visibility settings, letting you share some workflows broadly while keeping others restricted to specific members.
**Automations run within workflows.** An automation is always attached to a specific workflow. It defines the trigger — a schedule, a webhook, an event — that causes the workflow's steps to execute. Automations inherit the permissions and environment of the project and workspace they belong to.
You can be a member of multiple workspaces under the same organization. Switch between them at any time using the workspace selector in the top-left corner of the dashboard.
## What to Read Next
Start with **Workspaces** if you're setting up Chevre for the first time and need to understand how to structure your organization's environment. Then move on to **Projects** to learn how to group your work effectively. When your team is ready to collaborate, **Members & Permissions** explains how to invite people and control access.