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

# Introduction

> Welcome to Slant, the relationship CRM for fiduciaries.

Slant is an AI-first CRM built for financial advisors. It helps you spend more time with clients and less time on administrative work. With Slant, you can:

* Chat with your CRM to draft emails, prep agendas, and automate outreach
* Get proactive nudges to strengthen client relationships
* Record meetings and get automatic summaries and action items
* Keep client processes on track with pipelines, projects, and automations

## Who Slant is for

Slant is designed for small-to-mid-size advisory firms:

* **Financial advisors** — Manage client relationships and grow your practice
* **Operations managers** — Configure integrations, manage data, and oversee automations
* **Client service associates (CSAs)** — Handle day-to-day client interactions and tasks

## Core concepts

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  <Card title="Book" icon="book">
    Your workspace in Slant. Think of it like a Slack workspace — all your clients, tasks, and data live within your book.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Household" icon="house">
    A family unit you serve. Every household is either a **Client** (active customer) or **Prospect** (potential customer).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Person" icon="user">
    An individual within a household. Each household has a head of household, and may include a spouse or partner, dependents, and other family members.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Other contact" icon="contact">
    A professional relationship that isn't a client — CPAs, attorneys, referral sources, and other centers of influence.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Core features

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  <Card title="Chat" icon="sparkles" href="/records/households/chat">
    Ask questions, draft emails, create tasks, and analyze files using a conversational AI assistant.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Book chat" icon="bot-message-square" href="/dashboard/book-chat">
    Query across your entire book to build reports, run calculations, and create new records.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Automations" icon="zap" href="/platform/automations/overview">
    Automated processes that trigger based on events, create tasks, send notifications, and update records.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Reports" icon="chart-bar" href="/platform/reports">
    Create reusable, AI-generated queries that return fresh results from your book's data anytime you need them.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Meetings" icon="notebook-pen" href="/activity/meetings/overview">
    Prepare for meetings, record notes, create summaries, and assign post-meeting tasks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tasks" icon="square-check" href="/activity/tasks/overview">
    Track action items from meetings, notes, and automations across your book.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Opportunities" icon="hand-coins" href="/activity/opportunities/overview">
    Track prospects through your pipeline and forecast new business.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Clients" icon="users" href="/records/clients/overview">
    Manage your clients, prospects, other contacts, and businesses in one place.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Next steps

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  <Card title="Import your data" icon="upload" href="/setting-up-slant/importing-your-data/overview">
    Bring your existing client data into Slant
  </Card>

  <Card title="Glossary" icon="book-open" href="/help/glossary">
    Key terms and definitions
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
