# Welcome to Aventail

Source: [https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/)

Run AI models on your own devices. Use **Workspace** to chat and work with documents, or connect a model to your own applications.

Locai is now **Aventail**. Runtime 2.x is **Aventail Link**; 1.x is **Locai Link (Legacy Aventail)**.

## New to Aventail?

[**Quick start →**](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/getting-started/quickstartguide)

Install **Aventail Link**, connect your device to Control, and deploy a model in one walkthrough.

### Choose how to use your model

Workspace and your own software can use the same Link model.

1.  **Chat in Workspace**
    
    Use a conversation interface to ask questions and work with documents.
    
    [Screenshot: Model and conversation — close-up from Workspace chat.](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/img/guides/context/workspace.png)
    
2.  **Connect your software**
    
    Use the local API endpoint in an application or integration.
    
    [Screenshot: API Usage panel showing local endpoint and request information for a served model.](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/img/control/onboarding/local-api.png)
    

## Already set up?

[**Chat in Workspace**Chat with your model and work with documents.](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/workspace/getting-started)[**Connect your software**Send an API request, then connect an app or integration.](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/getting-started/run-first-interface)

[Manage a fleet](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/fleet/overview) · [Get help](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/troubleshooting/common-issues) · [Release notes](https://docs.aventail.co.uk/docs/changelog/link)