Learn / Quickstart

From zero to a live hive in under ten minutes.

Five small steps. No accounts. No servers. The whole substrate fits in a folder you can read.

Connect your LLM

~1 minute

Open Settings, pick your provider, paste your endpoint and key, and click Test connection. Apiary stores your key in this browser only.

Browse the sample hive

~5 minutes

Open the Billing Sectorhive. You'll see one CEO, three reps, and three proposals at different stages. Read the votes, the rationales, the tiebreak, and the reconsideration motion — it's all in markdown.

Cast a vote (coming soon)

~1 minute

In a future cycle you'll cast votes from the UI; today you can model the flow by editing the proposal's ## Votes section directly in sample-hive/proposals/*.md.

Watch the founder dashboard

ongoing

Open the Founder dashboard to see every committee decision, CEO tiebreak, reconsideration motion, and escalation — across all hives, newest first.

Create your own hive (coming soon)

future v0.3

Spawn a new sector — auth, ops, UI, your-pet-project — with its own charter, its own reps, and its own CEO. Hives are folders. Folders are lobes. Lobes are governance units.

Self-host locally

Apiary is a Next.js app you can clone and run on your own machine. No accounts, no hosted dependency.

Download & install →

Tune the experience

Tell Apiary about you and what you're building. Local-only — never sent anywhere — but it makes the suggestions feel like they belong to you.

Open personalization →