What is Runtype?

Runtype is an AI Product development platform for teams moving from working demos to production-ready AI products. It gives you everything you need to build, test, deploy, and monitor AI capabilities.

Who is Runtype for?

Runtype is built for developers, product teams, startups, and agencies building AI-powered experiences. Whether you're an established software company or just getting started with a new business idea - if you are shipping AI into a user-facing product, Runtype gives you the infrastructure to do it reliably.

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Core Capabilities

Runtype helps you go from idea to production:

• Build AI agents and workflows — Create Agents and multi-step Flows with prompts, API calls, transforms, and conditionals

• Deploy through multiple Surfaces — Expose your AI capabilities to your users by meeting them where they already work - through chat widgets, email, messaging. You can also make your products accessible to other agents and systems REST APIs, MCP, or Agent-to-Agent interfaces

• Test and compare — Use Evals to compare models and prompts across datasets. Try different versions of your prompts and see the results immediately, or test the newest models on the day they release to see if switching models will improve your product.

• Monitor and debug — Review execution logs, inspect failures, and improve reliability

Key concepts

Here is how the core concepts fit together:

These terms show up throughout the platform:

• Flows — Multi-step AI workflows built from prompts, API calls, and logic. Allows you to build powerful software using a combination of code and LLMs; leveraging the strengths of traditional deterministic code with the malleability and generalizability of LLMs.

• Agents — An LLM running in a loop with a specific goal and access to tools. Agents can work through problems or handle multi-turn conversations with your customers, while calling tools to browse the web, use your product's existing APIs, or call other Agents or Flows to build powerful software.

• Products — A container for your Agents, Flows, and Surfaces to help organize your Runtype instance, similar to a project. Create new Products when you have a new idea for a thing to build.

• Surfaces — Deployment channels that belong to a Product, such as chat widgets, messaging channels, REST APIs, MCP, and Agent-to-Agent. These are the 'surfaces' through which your customers directly experience your product, the presentation layer.

• Capabilities — Flows or Agents attached to a Product and exposed through its Surfaces. Distinct units of functionality, like individual features.

• Records — Structured data entries with JSON metadata that provide context during Flow execution. This is Runtype's database-as-a-service capability you can use to store, retrieve, and re-use data in your products, so you don't need to have your own database (although you can also plug in your own external datastore).

• Tools — Extensions that Agents can call to take action or retrieve data. These might make API calls to other systems, search the web, use a computer, or even call functions directly in the environment like the browser or server where the agent is running.

• Evals — Evaluations that help you test new models, new tool configurations, and get a sense for how changing your configuration will affect your users' experience. Use Evals to evaluate the effectiveness, speed, and cost of various configurations.

Explore the Dashboard and Playground to see these concepts in action.

Platform keys and BYOK

Runtype provides Platform keys so you can start building without setting up provider accounts first to access popular AI models and tools. If you prefer to use your own provider credentials, you can set up BYOK in your account settings.

Next Steps

• Quickstart — Build your first Flow and deploy it.

• What is a Product? — Learn how Products organize the AI Capabilities you ship.

• What are Surfaces? — See how users access your Capabilities through chat, APIs, MCP, and A2A.

• Platform keys — Start building with Runtype-managed provider access.