# Develop (/docs/develop)



Development focuses on four practical tracks:

1. consuming BullSequana AI models through the stable BSQAI API
2. building document AI and retrieval flows
3. creating and operating data or ML pipelines
4. deploying applications on top of the platform

This section is meant for developers, solution teams, and platform teams building on top of BullSequana AI.

## Recommended Background [#recommended-background]

Helpful experience for this section includes:

* general software engineering and API integration
* Docker and local development environments
* bearer-token or API-key based authentication
* Kubernetes basics
* Helm packaging
* GitOps concepts when deploying through `Argo CD`

The more detailed pages in this section add more specific guidance where needed.

## Start Here [#start-here]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Use local models via API" href="/docs/develop/use-local-models-via-api" />

  <Card title="Developer tools" href="/docs/develop/developer-tools" />

  <Card title="Deploy apps on the platform" href="/docs/develop/deploy-apps-on-the-platform" />
</Cards>

## Development Areas [#development-areas]

<Cards>
  <Card title="AI, Doc AI & Pipelines" href="/docs/develop/ai-doc-ai-pipelines" description="Choose the supported development path for AI applications, document processing, or pipelines." />
</Cards>

## Additional References [#additional-references]

<Cards>
  <Card title="BSQAI API" href="/docs/ai/components/bsqai-api" />

  <Card title="API Reference" href="/docs/reference" />

  <Card title="Deployment" href="/docs/deployment" />
</Cards>