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

# Try Foundry on a sample company

> Watch Helix Foundry connect a made-up company's database and documents, build an ontology, load it into a Helix database and answer a question, before you connect your own data

Tutorial

The sample company runs Foundry end to end on Acme Corp, a made-up company that sells
scheduling software to field-service businesses: Foundry connects its database and
documents, builds an ontology, loads it and answers a question, all on one page. Owners
and admins can start it.

## Start the sample

On **Get started**, select **See it on a sample company (1 min)** under **Start with a
sample company**. **Acme Corp, a sample company** opens and runs each step by itself;
each step opens as its work finishes and stays open.

**1. Acme Corp's data**

Foundry connects Acme Corp's PostgreSQL database with a read-only login and syncs
`accounts`, `contacts`, `subscriptions`, `invoices`, `support_tickets` and
`product_usage`. It uploads nine documents into a document set named **Acme Corp
sample**: three customer contracts as PDFs, call notes, a support escalation, an
incident report and a price list.

**2. The goal**

Understand each customer account with its people, plan, contract terms, invoices,
tickets, usage and calls, to see which renewals are at risk.

**3. The ontology**

Foundry creates **Acme Corp customers** on a new Helix database from a ready-made
draft, so there's no AI draft to wait for, makes it current and shows its types and
links.

**4. Loading**

The load writes the rows as records, each linked to its account, subscription or
contact, then reads the documents with AI models for the names and facts they hold.
**See the load** opens its page.

**5. Ask the Analyst**

Once the load is written, the page asks the first suggested question and shows the
answer with the records and documents it came from. Then:

* under **Ask another**, a suggestion opens its thread in the
  [Analyst](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/ask/ask-questions.md);
* **Ask your own question** opens a new thread;
* **See the records** opens the [Explorer](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/explore/explorer.md).

**6. Now connect your own data**

**Connect your own data** opens the [first-ontology steps](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/start-here/quickstart.md)
for your own sources. **Set up with your agent** copies a prompt for your agent to do
them with you.

If a step fails, the page says why, with **Try again**. Reopening or reloading the page
carries on where it was and makes nothing twice.

## While you explore the sample

While the sample is the workspace's only ontology, every page shows the banner **Sample
data: you're exploring Acme Corp, a made-up company.** For owners and admins it links
**Back to getting started**, or, once the sample's question is answered, **Get started
with your own data**.

The sample's connection and document set show in **Connectors**, but your own
ontologies never offer them as sources. Its ontology, database and load are ordinary:
the Analyst, the Explorer and Records read them like yours.

## What it uses

* **A Helix database** on Helix's shared cluster, in the workspace's first Helix project
  or a new project named after the workspace, on the workspace's
  [Helix Cloud plan](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/workspace/plans-and-billing.md#the-helix-cloud-plan-for-databases).
* **AI models**: reading the documents and answering questions use the workspace's
  [AI models](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/workspace/ai-models.md) and count toward its
  [monthly caps](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/workspace/usage.md) like any other load or question.

Foundry [emails you once](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/start-here/workspaces-and-navigation.md#emails-from-foundry)
a day later if the workspace still has no data of its own.

## Remove the sample

Delete the **Acme Corp customers** ontology from its overview, then its connection and
documents in **Connectors**.

## Next steps

> [card] [Quickstart](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/start-here/quickstart.md)
>
> Build your first ontology from your own data.

> [card] [Ask the Analyst](https://docs.helix-db.com/foundry/ask/ask-questions.md)
>
> Ask questions and read where each answer came from.


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