Key Concepts
Understanding these core concepts will help you get the most out of Luo.
Workspace
A workspace is where you work on Luo. It contains the features you’ve asked Luo to build for you—pages, dashboards, forms, and connections to your other tools.
Think of a workspace as a personalized application built around your specific needs. Unlike traditional software where you adapt to pre-built features, your workspace adapts to you.
Each workspace is self-contained. You can have multiple workspaces for different purposes—one for managing projects, another for tracking sales, another for coordinating events.
Assistant
The assistant is Luo’s AI, available in the right panel of your workspace. It helps you in two ways:
Getting work done — Ask the assistant to complete tasks like sending emails, looking up information, creating calendar events, or updating records. It can use your workspace features and connected integrations on your behalf.
Building your workspace — Describe what you need, and the assistant creates new features for you. It asks clarifying questions, builds the feature, and lets you iterate until it’s right.
The assistant understands the context of your workspace and is aware of available integrations and features.
Features
Features are the tools and pages in your workspace. They appear in the left sidebar, organized into groups. Examples include:
- A dashboard showing data from multiple sources
- A form for capturing and processing information
- A list or table for managing records
- A calendar view for scheduling
Features are created by the assistant based on your requests. You can always ask the assistant to modify, expand, or remove features as your needs change.
Data (Entities)
When you build features that store information—like a contacts list or project tracker—Luo creates data storage for you. These are sometimes called “entities.”
An entity is like a spreadsheet or database table. It has fields (columns) that define what information is stored. For example, a Contacts entity might have fields for name, email, phone, and company.
You don’t need to set these up manually. When you describe what you want to track, the assistant creates the right data structure for you.
Backend Logic (Backend APIs)
Behind every feature, there’s logic that makes it work—saving data, sending emails, filtering lists, or connecting to other services. These are sometimes called “backend APIs.”
You don’t interact with these directly. The assistant creates them automatically when building your features. They run securely in the background whenever you use your workspace.