What Studio is

Bicycle already knows your business numbers: your data models define metrics such as orders, revenue or failed payments, and the dimensions you can split them by (region, channel, reason). Studio is where you build things that use those numbers, and a coding agent does the building with you.

The words, in plain language

Word	What it means
Data model	A named set of metrics and dimensions Bicycle can answer questions about. Every app is bound to exactly one model. A model's data has a start and an end date, and the end is often not today.
Data app	A small web page that shows numbers from one model: tiles, trends, breakdowns, tables, and optionally buttons that run functions. It has versions; a version is private until it is published.
Publish	Make a version the live one. A published app is readable by everyone in your workspace who can see it. Publishing is always done by a person.
Function	One job with one input and one output, run by Studio on demand. Four kinds: Code (Python), Ask AI (one AI answer), Sort into categories (a label from a fixed list) and Agent that investigates.
Agent	A function that takes several AI steps and read-only lookups to reach an answer, under limits you set (steps, cost, time). It reads; it never changes anything in another system.
Workflow	Steps that Studio runs in the background: on a schedule, when someone presses Run, or when an app calls it. Steps fetch data, summarise, ask AI, take a screenshot of an app and send the result by email or through one of your connected tools.
Send and approval	A send is the only way anything leaves Bicycle. A send can wait for a person to approve it in Studio's Approvals inbox; sends through connected tools (Slack, Jira, PagerDuty) always wait unless an admin has allowed that tool to run on its own.
Run and trace	Every time a function, agent, workflow, analysis or schedule runs, Studio records one run with a trace: what it did, step by step, who started it, how long it took and what it cost. See the Runs page.
Connection	A tool your workspace has connected to Bicycle (Jira, Slack, Atlassian, a warehouse). An agent can be given read access to one; a workflow send can post through one.
Detect and Explain	Built-in analysis: which segments of a metric moved unusually (Detect) and what drove the change (Explain). See Detect and Explain.
Coding agent	Claude Code or Claude Desktop connected to Studio through MCP. It reads your models, writes code and specs, and calls Studio's tools. It cannot publish, approve or share without you.
MCP	The connection standard that lets a coding agent use Studio's tools. You connect it once; see Connect a coding agent.

How the pieces fit

• An app reads the model through queries it declares, and can call functions and workflows from a button.
• A function computes one answer; an agent function investigates.
• A workflow runs later, keeps results between runs, and is the only thing that sends.

Where things are in Studio

Studio is under your workspace at https://app.bicycle.ai/<your-workspace>/apps/home. The navigation bar:

Page	What you do there
Apps	Open, publish, share and schedule data apps.
Functions	Create, try, test, publish, disable functions of every kind.
Agents	The functions of kind Agent, with their instructions, data and limits.
Workflows	Build and publish workflows, pause schedules, read the data they produced.
Approvals	Sends waiting for a person. Nothing goes out until someone approves it here.
Runs	Every run in the workspace, with its trace.

What you do versus what the agent does

You	The coding agent
Say what decision the app should help with, and who will use it.	Finds the model, reads its metrics and dates, runs the queries.
Check sample numbers against what you already know.	Shows you those numbers before building on them.
Publish, approve sends, share apps, switch on "expose to agents".	Gives you the link for each of those and waits.
Test the result and say what is wrong.	Walks you through testing and fixes what you report.
Switch things off when you are done.	Lists everything it created and how to switch it off.

Next: Your first app in ten minutes.