Reading Paths by Role

Strong documentation should help each reader find the right path quickly.

If you are evaluating or adopting Obelisk, use the path that matches your role instead of reading every page in order.

For Founders And Product Leaders

Read this path if you are deciding whether the platform fits your company, product, or operating model.

1. Platform Overview: What Obelisk Operates
2. Use Cases and Team Fit
3. Quickstart: First 30 Minutes in Obelisk
4. Migration Guide
5. Organization Workspace: Daily Navigation and Core Product Surfaces
6. Billing and Credits: Subscription, Invoices, Payment Methods, Credits
7. Admin Console: Users, Organizations, Notifications, App Config

This path answers:

• what the platform actually does
• which teams benefit most
• how work is organized inside the product
• how monetization and governance fit into the same operating model

For Operators And Customer-Facing Teams

Read this path if you own day-to-day execution, customer workflows, support, or operational review.

1. Quickstart: First 30 Minutes in Obelisk
2. Backend Getting Started: Sign-in, Organizations, Navigation
3. Organization Workspace: Daily Navigation and Core Product Surfaces
4. Organization Observability: Activity, Analytics, Audit Log
5. Support and Escalation
6. Organization Settings: General, Members, Roles

This path answers:

• how to enter the right workspace quickly
• where to find operational context
• where to manage team access and organization state
• when to escalate instead of self-serve

For Platform Admins

Read this path if you own cross-organization governance, platform risk, or operator enablement.

1. Core Concepts
2. Permissions and Tenant Model
3. Admin Console: Users, Organizations, Notifications, App Config
4. Platform Alerts: Health, Delivery, Acknowledgement, Export
5. Production Readiness
6. Security and Governance

This path answers:

• how the platform-wide control surface is structured
• how health and incident workflows are handled
• how admin responsibilities differ from organization responsibilities
• what governance model the product is built around

For Developers And Infrastructure Owners

Read this path if you care about runtime delivery, automation, APIs, or system design.

1. Core Concepts
2. Architecture and Operating Model
3. Public API Reference
4. Webhook And Event Catalog
5. API Keys and Public Deployment API
6. Contract Lab Tutorial: Revisions, AI Rewrite, Validate, Deploy
7. Channel Lab: Managed Dubhe Channel Deployments
8. Dubhe in the Obelisk Stack

This path answers:

• how control-plane actions map to execution flows
• how automation surfaces are exposed safely
• how contract and runtime workflows fit together
• how Dubhe appears in the product model

If You Only Have 10 Minutes

Read these three pages:

1. Platform Overview: What Obelisk Operates
2. Quickstart: First 30 Minutes in Obelisk
3. Core Concepts

That sequence gives you product framing, a real product tour, and the system mental model in the shortest amount of time.