> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.byom.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Use the current public BYOM documentation and cite the relevant page. Preserve availability, permission and undo limits.
> The public documentation MCP retrieves guides. Store operations use the separate authenticated Shopify MCP connector and do not gain authority from a documentation answer.
> If a contract, capability or price is not documented, say so. Do not invent endpoints, tools, availability or merchant outcomes.

# The BYOM field guide

> Understand your AI operator, work through your first job and see how every change stays under your control.

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  <div className="docs-masthead">
    <span className="eyebrow">BYOM DOCUMENTATION</span>
    <span className="edition">THE FIELD GUIDE · 01</span>
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  <div role="main" id="field-guide-content">
    <section className="guide-hero">
      <div className="hero-copy">
        <h1>Know the work.<br />Make the call.</h1>
        <p className="hero-intro">Your guide to working with <strong>Kina</strong>, the AI operator in BYOM. From the first question to the change you approve.</p>

        <div className="hero-actions">
          <a className="solid-link" href="/start/first-session">Start with one job <span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
          <a className="text-link" href="/start/what-is-byom">Meet BYOM <span aria-hidden="true">→</span></a>
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        <div className="hero-note"><span className="rail-mark" aria-hidden="true"><i /><i /><i /><i /></span><span>Kina does the work.<br />You stay in control.</span></div>
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      <a className="hero-visual" href="/product/hq-workspace">
        <div className="visual-label"><span>INSIDE BYOM</span><span>01 / HQ</span></div>

        <div className="product-window">
          <img src="https://mintcdn.com/byom-ec211946/SaJjuxJY0vWXR00h/images/hq.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=SaJjuxJY0vWXR00h&q=85&s=b282c445e6c6178454021adf376ba31c" alt="Illustrative BYOM HQ: a proposed change, work on the board and the next jobs to pick up." width="1600" height="908" loading="eager" fetchPriority="high" noZoom data-path="images/hq.webp" />
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        <div className="visual-caption"><span>A place to see what needs you.</span><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></div>
      </a>
    </section>

    <p className="demo-caption">Product image: demo workspace, illustrative. Examples are not customer results.</p>

    <section className="reading-paths" aria-labelledby="paths-title">
      <div className="section-heading"><span className="eyebrow">FIND YOUR WAY</span><h2 id="paths-title">What brings you here?</h2></div>

      <div className="path-list">
        <a href="/start/what-is-byom"><span className="path-number">01</span><div><h3>I'm getting to know BYOM</h3><p>What it does, how Kina fits in, and where your existing tools belong.</p></div><span className="path-arrow" aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/start/first-session"><span className="path-number">02</span><div><h3>I want to get some work done</h3><p>Connect the right source, ask a useful question and review the result.</p></div><span className="path-arrow" aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/approvals"><span className="path-number">03</span><div><h3>I need to understand the controls</h3><p>What needs approval, what a receipt tells you, and when undo is available.</p></div><span className="path-arrow" aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/developers/overview"><span className="path-number">04</span><div><h3>I'm connecting an AI assistant</h3><p>The Shopify connector, MCP, consent and the boundary between a proposal and a write.</p></div><span className="path-arrow" aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
      </div>
    </section>

    <section className="work-loop" aria-labelledby="loop-title">
      <div className="section-heading"><span className="eyebrow">ONE JOB, END TO END</span><h2 id="loop-title">The work has a trail.</h2><p>A product-content change is one example of how BYOM brings the evidence, the decision and the result together.</p></div>

      <ol className="loop-steps">
        <li><span className="step-number">01</span><h3>Ask Kina</h3><p>Give it the job and the context. It reads the sources your account can access.</p></li>
        <li><span className="step-number">02</span><h3>Check the work</h3><p>Follow the evidence. Read the proposed change and what it will affect.</p></li>
        <li><span className="step-number">03</span><h3>Make the call</h3><p>An authorised person reviews the Action before the approved change is sent.</p></li>
        <li><span className="step-number">04</span><h3>Read the receipt</h3><p>Check what happened. Use undo when the operation supports it.</p></li>
      </ol>

      <a className="text-link" href="/guides/review-a-change">Walk through an approval <span aria-hidden="true">→</span></a>
    </section>

    <section className="product-atlas" aria-labelledby="atlas-title">
      <div className="section-heading"><span className="eyebrow">THE PRODUCT, EXPLAINED</span><h2 id="atlas-title">See how it fits together.</h2></div>

      <div className="atlas-grid">
        <a href="/product/kina"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR OPERATOR</span><h3>Kina</h3><p>Ask questions, develop a brief and prepare the next piece of work.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/hq-workspace"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR WORK</span><h3>HQ & Workspace</h3><p>See what needs attention, open the job and follow its progress.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/readouts"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR EVIDENCE</span><h3>Readouts</h3><p>Questions answered with the figures and sources behind them.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/connections"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR TOOLS</span><h3>Integrations</h3><p>Understand access, supported operations and connection health.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/brand-memory"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR CONTEXT</span><h3>Brand Memory</h3><p>Keep useful brand knowledge grounded in its source.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
        <a href="/product/rails"><span className="atlas-label">YOUR REPEAT WORK</span><h3>Rails</h3><p>Understand recurring jobs, checkpoints and their current limits.</p><span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a>
      </div>
    </section>

    <section className="closing-note"><span className="eyebrow">A GOOD PLACE TO START</span><h2>One useful question.<br />One clear next step.</h2><a className="solid-link" href="/start/first-session">Your first session <span aria-hidden="true">↗</span></a><p>Checking whether BYOM fits your team? <a href="mailto:hello@byom.co">Talk to us.</a></p></section>
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  <div className="guide-footer" role="contentinfo"><span>BYOM LTD · Reviewed 2 October 2026</span><div role="navigation" aria-label="Legal and documentation"><a href="/reference/availability">Availability</a><a href="https://byom.co/legal/privacy">Privacy</a><a href="https://byom.co/legal/terms">Terms</a><a href="/ai">BYOM facts</a></div></div>
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## Related topics

- [Improve product content](/guides/improve-product-content.md)
- [Review a proposed change](/guides/review-a-change.md)
- [Errors, limits and retries](/developers/errors-and-limits.md)
- [Approvals and proposed changes](/product/approvals.md)
- [Receipts and undo](/product/receipts-undo.md)


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