The basics
Explorer, modules, ⌘K, tabs, theme and language.
The explorer and modules
On the left of Flow is the explorer: everything you build, grouped in modules. A module is a folder for one subject or team, such as Workshop or Sales, with its own colour and owner. What is in a module is internal unless you share it. You create a module for the workshop, move a table into it and merge two modules.
Find things fast with ⌘K
At the top of Flow is a search bar: the command palette. With it you open any document (workflow, API, module, agent, page) by typing part of its name, and you run commands without hunting for the button. The shortcut is ⌘K on a Mac and Ctrl+K on Windows.
Tabs and the bottom panel
Everything you open gets a tab, so you can quickly switch between, for example, a workflow and the table it writes to. At the bottom is a panel with four tabs: Output (what a workflow does), Inbox (what waits for your review), Live traffic (calls to your APIs) and Problems (what is wrong in the open document).
Light or dark, Dutch or English
At the top right of Flow are two switches: the sun or moon for a light or dark look, and NL | EN for the language. Flow remembers your choice in this browser. The language applies to everything: buttons, messages from the server, plain-language explanations and error messages.
Finding your way in Flow
The bar on the far left follows your work, in groups with a line between them: Build, Run, Insight, Security and Admin, and at the bottom AI and Learn. Every screen has exactly one place in that bar, and the button of what is in front of you lights up. You walk through the groups one by one and end at Learn: the guides for the screen you are on, right inside Flow.
Building together in Flow
Several people work in one environment at the same time. Flow shows who is there and what they have open: top right, in the explorer, on the tabs and on the step a colleague holds. And saving never silently overwrites someone else's work: when a colleague changed it in the meantime, Flow asks what you want and merges what does not collide. It works the same for an AI app or AI Colleague that builds; you see it marked as AI.
Two people on one workflow
You and a colleague work on the same workflow. Flow shows you what the other does, the moment it happens and who did it: a run of a design that is not saved yet, a move to another module, and even deleting the workflow you have open. What you have not saved yet is never lost silently. And the Activity tab tells you what happened while you were away for a moment.
Committing and publishing together
When several people work in Development, you commit versions together and publish them to Acceptance. Flow says with every change who made it, records only what you looked at, shows your colleagues your version at once and publishes exactly the version you saw in the preview. What is not committed yet does not go along; it says so, with who is working on it.
Reviewing together
When a run waits for a review, several people can look at it in the inbox, and a builder can change the workflow meanwhile. Flow shows who started the run, says so when the workflow changed since (the run goes on with the version it started with), and when two people decide at the same moment, the second is told who decided first and why.
Documentation that writes itself
In Docs you write the documentation of your solution next to building it, in the same studio. A module's space writes itself: for every API, workflow and table Flow makes a page from what it knows, and keeps it up to date when something changes. What people add lives in notes attached to a part, and stays. Next to that you write ordinary pages, for example a runbook from a template, which readers see as soon as you publish them. Secrets, table rows and personal data never end up on a page.
An AI app builds along
An AI app with MCP access, such as Claude Desktop, builds in Flow on your behalf, also while colleagues work there. It first looks who is busy with what, leaves alone what a person is changing (or tells you), and what it saves your colleagues see at once, marked as AI. It never overwrites: a person's work and the app's are merged.