# Bold Documentation

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



Bold turns your video library into searchable, AI-queryable knowledge: hosted, transcribed, chaptered, and ready to answer your members' questions with citations to the exact moment. Whether you're uploading your first video or building a custom integration, start here.

## I want to…

* **Get my first video live** → [Quickstart](/guides/quickstart)
* **Put a video on my website** → [Embedding](/guides/embedding)
* **Set up my branded portal** → [Your Portal](/guides/portal)
* **Let members ask questions about my content** → [AI Features](/guides/ai-features)
* **Build my own frontend** → [Next.js Starter](/sdk/nextjs-starter)
* **Stop password sharing** → [Session Management](/sdk/session-management)

## Using Bold

The admin panel, from upload to portal:

<Cards>
  <Card title="Quickstart" href="/guides/quickstart" description="Login to first shared video in ten minutes" />

  <Card title="Uploading & Managing Videos" href="/guides/uploading-videos" description="Uploads, imports, metadata, and AI actions" />

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

  <Card title="Your Portal" href="/guides/portal" description="Branded, hosted, or fully headless" />
</Cards>

## Building with Bold

APIs, SDK, and starters for custom integrations:

<Cards>
  <Card title="API Reference" href="/api" description="REST API: videos, viewers, AI, and more" />

  <Card title="JavaScript SDK" href="/sdk" description="@boldvideo/bold-js, fully typed" />

  <Card title="Next.js Starter" href="/sdk/nextjs-starter" description="A complete portal, deployable in minutes" />

  <Card title="MCP Server" href="/mcp" description="Your library as a tool for AI agents (draft)" />
</Cards>

## Quick taste

```bash
curl "https://app.boldvideo.io/api/v1/videos" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
```

Get an API key under [Settings → Developer](https://app.boldvideo.io/settings/developer), then explore the [API docs](/api).

## For AI assistants

These docs are LLM-first: [`/llms.txt`](/llms.txt) indexes every page, [`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt) is the whole site in one file, and the API ships an [OpenAPI spec and its own llms.txt](/api/machine-readable). Point your agent at them.