# What Substrait does > Every Substrait capability on its own page, grouped by pillar: build, data and security, plus productivity tools such as Slate, Agentic Builder, the communications centre and templates. URL: https://substrait.build/capabilities/ Last updated: 2026-11-06 Substrait is the operating system for AI-built tools. It stands on three pillars: build and go live in one click, every data flow under your control, and security configured exactly for your organisation. On top of them come productivity tools for an AI-enabled workforce: Slate, Agentic Builder, the communications centre and templates. Each page below describes one capability, in plain words. ## Build: go live in one click - [Build with the AI model you already use](https://substrait.build/capabilities/build-with-your-own-ai-model/): Substrait does not replace your people's AI model. A plugin for Claude Code, the Claude desktop app and Cursor connects it to Substrait, and a scaffold fitted to your company shapes what it produces. - [One click to live, through the security check](https://substrait.build/capabilities/one-command-go-live/): A builder sends a tool to Substrait with one command, through their AI model, and goes live with one click. Substrait promotes the exact build tested in dev to production, only through the security check. - [Guided building: every builder knows what to do next](https://substrait.build/capabilities/guided-building/): Substrait coaches each builder inside the platform, from their first sign-in to their first tool in production, at the depth that fits what they already know. The Builder Academy is a separate, optional human service. - [On Substrait's cloud, or inside yours](https://substrait.build/capabilities/your-own-cloud/): Start on a standard setup on Substrait's cloud with nothing to install, or run Substrait in your own cloud account or data centre. In your environment, the whole tool and its data stay inside your perimeter. - [Every tool your people use, in one place](https://substrait.build/capabilities/home-and-explore/): Substrait gives every employee a Home page with their own tools on it, and an Explore directory of what colleagues chose to share. Finding a tool never grants access to it. - [Nothing breaks quietly](https://substrait.build/capabilities/monitoring-and-alerts/): Substrait watches every tool it runs: crash detection, startup checks and request-level monitoring, with alerts to the builder and the owner about build questions, scan results and release status. ## Data: every data flow, under your control - [Company data, granted by its owner](https://substrait.build/capabilities/governed-data-access/): A tool on Substrait reads company data only after the data owner approves it, for a set time, through one gateway that holds the credential, checks every call and records every read. - [One catalogue of the APIs and data your tools can use](https://substrait.build/capabilities/api-library/): Substrait's API Library lists your company's APIs, the tools your people built and your warehouse data sets. Builders browse it in conversation with their AI model, and see only what their groups allow. ## Security: configured exactly for your organisation - [A security check before every release reaches production](https://substrait.build/capabilities/security-check/): Substrait scans every release for leaked secrets, weak code, vulnerable dependencies, container issues and problems in the running tool. A tool reaches production only through a promotion that clears the check. - [Set the guardrails once, not for every change](https://substrait.build/capabilities/policies-and-approvals/): Each organisation sets its own policies and risk tiers in Substrait. Changes inside an approved boundary ship freely; only a change that crosses it goes back for approval. - [A security command centre, built in](https://substrait.build/capabilities/security-command-centre/): Substrait gives the security team one console for every finding across every tool, opening on one page that answers how exposed the company is right now, in the organisation's own severity names. - [An audit trail nobody can alter](https://substrait.build/capabilities/audit-trail/): Substrait records every access and action in an audit trail that nobody, a platform admin included, can change after the fact. It is queryable, exportable to your security monitoring, and kept in storage you control. - [See every tool your people built](https://substrait.build/capabilities/tool-registry/): Substrait registers every tool, agent, Slate, skill and knowledge base with an owner, a purpose, a risk tier and a version, and gives every one a switch that stops it. - [Right-sized authority for every person](https://substrait.build/capabilities/roles-and-access/): Substrait keeps four kinds of access apart: data groups for what a person may see and read, capability groups for what they may do on the platform, app roles for what they may do on one tool, and each tool's own sign-in. - [Agents with their own identity and their own limits](https://substrait.build/capabilities/governed-agents/): On Substrait an agent is a tool its builder owns. Each agent has its own scoped identity, authority never wider than its owner's, a check on every action, a record of whom it acted for, and a switch on its identity. ## Productivity: tools for an AI-enabled workforce - [Slate: where teams work, beyond slides and documents](https://substrait.build/capabilities/slate/): A Slate is a living page a team builds together, each person through their own AI, and each AI draws on the whole shared project. It holds what a deck or a document cannot: interactive charts, dashboards, tables to fill in, checklists, layers of detail, timelines and animated process flows. - [Templates: Substrait's best practice, wired to your company](https://substrait.build/capabilities/seeded-templates/): Substrait builds templates of common business software on best practice from its own experience. Every installation starts with them, already connected to the company's cloud, sign-on, identity, data and design. A template is copied and owned, never locked to a central version. - [Agentic Builder: requests become tools](https://substrait.build/capabilities/agentic-builder/): Agentic Builder is the part of Substrait where anyone asks for a new tool or a change in plain words, and build agents plan, build, test and ship it under the company's own rules, with the tool's owner in charge. - [The communications centre: one pre-wired exchange for the whole organisation](https://substrait.build/capabilities/communications/): The communications centre is one central, pre-wired exchange that connects every alert, approval, notification and message across the organisation. Every tool built on Substrait calls it, so no tool builds its own. The company hooks in its own Slack, Google Chat, Teams, email or WhatsApp, and each person chooses the channel.