# What Scytian is

> A web application in which your company has agents, and they do its administrative work.

Section: Start here
Address: https://scytian.com/docs/what-scytian-is
Updated: 2026-09-14

Scytian is a web application in which a company has AI agents, and those agents do its administrative work. An agent has a name, a description of the role it stands in for, memory, written rules and access to the systems your company already uses.

Work reaches an agent in two ways. A **job** runs on its own when something happens: an invoice arrives, it is the first of the month, another system sends an event, somebody submits a form. Or you **ask in the chat**, in your own words, for something that happens once.

## What it replaces

The work between systems and people that nobody enjoys and everybody does by hand. Reading documents and writing them into your accounting. Producing documents and sending them. Keeping two systems in agreement. Assembling the same report every Monday. Answering "how much did we spend on this" from your own records.

## What it is not

It is not a canvas you wire by hand. You describe the job, the agent writes the plan, you approve it.

It is not a chatbot. A chatbot answers. An agent does the work and writes down what it did.

It is not a replacement for the person responsible. The judgement that has to stay human is named in the plan and keeps coming to a person.

## Where your data is

In your systems, where it already is. The platform reads and writes through the interfaces those systems offer, and keeps the process: the approved plans, your rules, your encrypted keys and the log of every run. See [Where your data lives](/docs/where-your-data-lives).