Getting Started

What is Runtype?

Runtype is an AI Product development platform for teams moving from working demos to production-ready AI Products. It gives you one place to build, test, deploy, and monitor AI Capabilities.

Core Capabilities

Runtype helps you go from idea to production:

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

  • Deploy through multiple Surfaces — Expose your Capabilities through chat widgets, REST APIs, MCP for AI IDEs, or Agent-to-Agent interfaces

  • Test and compare — Use Evals to compare models and prompts across datasets

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

Who uses Runtype?

Runtype is built for developers, Product teams, startups, and agencies building AI-powered experiences. If you are shipping AI into a Product, Runtype gives you the infrastructure to do it reliably.

Create your account to get started.

Key concepts

Here is how the core concepts fit together:

What you build

Where it lives

How users reach it

Flow, Agent

Product

Chat, API, MCP, A2A

These terms show up throughout the platform:

  • Flows — Multi-step AI workflows built from prompts, API calls, and logic

  • Agents — Agentic workflows with tool use and multi-step reasoning

  • Products — Organizational containers that hold the AI Capabilities you deploy

  • Surfaces — Deployment channels that belong to a Product, such as chat widgets, REST APIs, MCP, and Agent-to-Agent

  • Capabilities — Flows or Agents attached to a Product and exposed through its Surfaces

  • Records — Structured data entries with JSON metadata that provide context during Flow execution

  • Tools — Extensions that Agents can call to take action or retrieve data

  • Evals — Evaluations that compare prompt and model performance

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

New to Runtype? Start with the Quickstart guide to build your first Flow and deploy it.

Platform keys and BYOK

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

Platform keys let you try any supported model right away. You can always switch to your own keys later.

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.

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