# Welcome to Bold

URL: https://docs.boldvideo.com/guides



Bold turns your video library into something your members can actually use: every video is transcribed, chaptered, summarized, and made searchable the moment you upload it. Your viewers can ask questions and get answers with citations to the exact moment in the exact video.

Bold is built for course creators, coaching programs, and teams with large video libraries. You bring the videos; Bold handles hosting, streaming, AI enrichment, and delivery through a branded portal, embeds, or your own custom frontend.

## How Bold thinks about your content

A quick mental model before you start:

* **Videos** are the atomic unit. Each video gets a transcript, chapters, a title, a teaser, a description, and an AI intelligence report, all generated automatically and editable by you.
* **Collections** group videos for organization and filtering (think: course modules, event archives).
* **Playlists** are ordered sequences you curate for viewers (think: a learning path).
* **Tags** are lightweight labels for filtering and API queries.
* **The portal** is your branded home for all of it, hosted by Bold or headless via the [API](/api) and [SDK](/sdk).
* **Viewers** are your members. Bold tracks their progress and personalizes AI answers, while your app keeps owning login and billing.

## Start here

<Cards>
  <Card title="Quickstart" href="/guides/quickstart" description="Upload your first video and share it in 10 minutes" />

  <Card title="Uploading Videos" href="/guides/uploading-videos" description="From your computer, Google Drive, OneDrive, Zoom, or Teams" />

  <Card title="Managing Videos" href="/guides/managing-videos" description="Metadata, AI actions, privacy, and publishing" />

  <Card title="AI Features" href="/guides/ai-features" description="Search, chat, and coaching across your library" />
</Cards>

## Building something custom?

If you'd rather integrate Bold into your own product, head to the [API reference](/api) or the [JavaScript SDK](/sdk). The [Next.js starter](/sdk/nextjs-starter) gives you a full portal you can deploy in minutes.