# Surface Documentation



Surface captures the demand already on your site, keeps one current record per
buyer, and points agents at that record to research, score, route, schedule,
write and publish.

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Tag installed and a first lead captured, in about ten minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Core Concepts" icon="book" href="/concepts">
    Environment, Lead, Vault, Agent, Agent action, Artifact.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Choose Your Path" icon="split" href="/choose-your-path">
    Marketer, GTM engineer, developer.
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## Where to Start [#where-to-start]

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  <Card title="SAM, the Agentic Marketer" icon="messages" href="/platform/sam/overview">
    Everything you'd open the app to do, done from Slack. &#x2A;*Beta.**
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vault" icon="database" href="/platform/vault/overview">
    Your positioning, proof and voice, in Markdown. Agents read it before they
    write.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI Visibility" icon="eye" href="/platform/ai-visibility/overview">
    Where you show up when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Dynamic Lead Forms" icon="rectangle-list" href="/platform/forms/builder">
    Branching forms, qualification, routing, and six ways to embed them.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Lead Data Layer" icon="table" href="/platform/leads">
    One record per buyer: identity, firmographics, behaviour, score.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Surface MCP" icon="bot" href="/mcp-server/overview">
    128 tools. Point Claude, Codex, Cursor or your own agent at your workspace.
  </Card>
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## If You Are an AI Agent [#if-you-are-an-ai-agent]

Every page has a Markdown copy at `<page-url>.md`. The page tree is indexed at
[`/llms.txt`](https://withsurface.com/docs/llms.txt), and every page in one file
is at [`/llms-full.txt`](https://withsurface.com/docs/llms-full.txt). To *act*
on a workspace, start at [Surface MCP](https://www.withsurface.com/docs/mcp-server/overview).

<Cta title="Not sure which part you need?" href="https://www.withsurface.com/book-demo" label="Book a walkthrough">
  Or start with [What is Surface?](https://www.withsurface.com/docs/what-is-surface)
</Cta>