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title: 🫡 Welcome to Honcho
sidebarTitle: 'Overview'
description: 'Honcho is an open source platform for building personalized AI experiences.'
icon: 'face-saluting'
---

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Honcho provides an simple API store data for AI applications in a user-centric
fashion and derive insights about users that improve the ability of
applications to quickly deliver value to the User. 

Now you can focus on improving your service instead of spending
countless hours figuring out how to get it to scale and be personalized.

To learn more about the project, check out our [blog
post](https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/A-Simple-Honcho-Primer).

Get started below!

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  <Card
    title="Quickstart"
    icon="bolt"
    href="/getting-started/quickstart"
  >
    Quickly set up a local environment to interface with the Honcho API
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Architecture"
    icon="building"
    href="/getting-started/architecture"
  >
    Get an overview of the different primitives and structure of Honcho
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Honcho Primer"
    icon="scroll"
    href="https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/A-Simple-Honcho-Primer"
  >
    Read our blog post that introduces Honcho, the motivations behind it, and what it will enable.
  </Card>
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