Getting Started

  • • Esy is a system for designing research workflows, not a chatbot.
  • • The workflow is the author — you design the process, Esy executes it.
  • • Start with templates to see results quickly.

What Is Esy?

Esy is a research platform for designing intent-driven workflows that produce reliable, inspectable written artifacts.

Instead of writing directly in an editor or issuing isolated prompts, you design a process — and Esy executes it.

In Esy, the workflow is the author.

The Esy Research Model

Every artifact produced with Esy follows the same underlying structure:

Intent → Context → Workflows → Artifacts → Quality Assurance

This model replaces ad-hoc prompting with a repeatable research methodology.

  • Intent — what you are trying to produce and why
  • Context — constraints on information, scope, and assumptions
  • Workflows — orchestration of actions across agents and tools
  • Artifacts — outputs evaluated against original intent
  • Quality Assurance — secondary passes for rigor, accuracy, and refinement

Most AI writing failures happen because these steps are implicit or skipped.

Esy exists to make them explicit, inspectable, and reusable.

Why Esy Is Structured This Way

Modern AI tools are excellent at generating text — but poor at preserving reasoning. Without structure: intent drifts, context balloons, decisions disappear, and outputs become difficult to trust or reproduce.

Esy treats research and writing as a designed system, not a conversation.

Start Here (Based on What You Need)

This section provides clear paths into Esy without requiring prior knowledge.

Learn the Methodology

If you want to understand how intent, context, workflows, and evaluation interact before producing artifacts:

→ Esy Research Overview

Produce Your First Artifact

If you want to see the system in action, run a complete, end-to-end workflow that generates a research-backed essay from a single intent:

→ First Essay Workflow

Use Templates (Recommended)

Templates are pre-designed research systems that encode best-practice defaults.

They are not prompts. They are executable workflows with bounded inputs.

→ Templates Library

Customize or Design Workflows

If you want to adjust stages, add quality checks, or design reusable pipelines:

→ Workflow Design Guide

Understand Artifact Structure

Artifacts in Esy are not just documents — they include structure, metadata, and provenance.

→ Artifact Specifications

Learn About Quality & Evaluation

To understand how outputs are checked, refined, and validated:

→ Quality Assurance & Evals

What Esy Is Not

To avoid confusion:

  • • Esy is not a one-click essay generator
  • • Esy is not a prompt marketplace
  • • Esy is not a chat-first writing tool

Esy is a platform for thinking before generating — and for making that thinking durable.

About These Docs

These docs are a living specification of how research workflows are designed, tested, and evolved inside Esy. They exist to align users, contributors, and the product itself over time.

If you are ever unsure what Esy is or should be, these docs are the reference point.

Canonical References

Foundational reference materials you'll return to as you use Esy.