Getting started — Sterodata docs

Sterodata is a web app, at https://app.sterodata.com, where a business keeps its records in linked tables and builds what it runs on top of them: dashboards, price lists, order forms, statements. You build by clicking, by installing a ready-made app, or by asking an AI assistant you have connected.

The parts

Part	What it is
Workspace	Your business's own space, at its own address, such as `app.sterodata.com/acme-sales`. Everything below lives in a workspace, and you invite your team into it.
Database	Where tables live. Every workspace has a built-in database. You can also connect a PostgreSQL or MySQL database you already run, which Sterodata reads live.
Table	A list of records with fields, like a spreadsheet tab where each column has a type: text, numbers, money, dates, choices, people, files, or links to records in another table.
View	One table filtered, sorted and shaped, or several tables stacked into one. It shows the table's own records; nothing is copied.
Summary	A table grouped and totalled, for example sales by region and by quarter.
Page	A dashboard of numbers, charts, lists and filters, built on your tables and views.
Form	A page people fill in, which writes records into your tables: an order, a request, a registration.
Role	A named set of permissions given to members. A member sees and changes what their roles and shares allow, and nothing else.
App	A ready-made set of tables, views, pages, forms and roles for one job, installed from the app gallery. Once installed, it is yours to change.
Assistant	ChatGPT, Claude or Codex, connected to Sterodata. It works as you, with your permissions.

How they fit

Records go into tables. Views and summaries read those tables and show them another way. Pages read tables and views; forms write into tables. Publishing a page or a form decides who can open it: the public, anyone with a private link, or members you choose. Inside the workspace, roles decide what each member can see and change. Every record shows who created it and who changed it last.

Take a wholesaler. Products, Clients and Offers are three linked tables. A Catalogue view shows only the products in stock. A Price list page shows them to customers as photo cards, with an order form that writes each order into Offers. A summary adds up every offer. That is the Product catalogue and offers app, which builds all of it in one step: see Apps.

In this section

Sign up and create a workspace
Three ways to start: install an app, import a spreadsheet, or build a table yourself
Invite your team
Connect your AI assistant

Your data is hosted on AWS in the EU, in Ireland. See Security.

In this section

Sign up and create a workspaceCreate a Sterodata account, confirm your email, and make your first workspace.
Three ways to startStart a workspace from a ready-made app, from a spreadsheet you already keep, or from an empty table you build yourself.
Invite your teamInvite colleagues into your workspace by email, choose their roles, and know what a new member sees.
Connect your AI assistantConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Codex to Sterodata, so it can read and build in your workspaces as you.