Navigating the Platform

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Overview

ProDex opens on the Chat surface, with Dexter ready to go — that’s the app’s front door and where most work starts. Around it, the chrome has three pieces you’ll use constantly: a top navigation bar for the four primary surfaces, a collapsible left sidebar that maps every capability in the platform, and a factory selector at the top of that sidebar that scopes everything you see to one workspace. This page is a map of that chrome, item by item. If you’re new to the underlying terms (Factory, model, run, project), read Key Concepts first.

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The Four Top-Nav Surfaces

Across the top of the window, left to right:

• Chat: your conversation with Dexter, and the default landing page. Multi-turn chat with tasks, review briefs, and action cards inline.
• Knowledge Base: Dexter’s durable memory of your operation — how your factory runs, what your data means, and what has been built in the platform. Auditable and editable.
• Workflows: the catalog of built-in and custom workflows Dexter can execute — simulation modeling, planning, exploratory data analysis, reports, CAD analysis, and any procedures your team has saved.
• Projects: the home for durable, multi-session efforts (a full simulation study, a multi-week model build) with phases and gated sign-offs, so Dexter can resume across sessions.

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The Left Sidebar

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Factory Selector

Below the logo, the first item is a button showing the current factory’s name. Clicking it opens a popover with:

• A Search factories… box
• A Current entry showing the factory you’re in
• An All factories list, where each factory has a star to mark it as a favorite
• Bottom actions: New Factory, Factory files, Sharing, and Factory settings

Selecting a factory switches your entire workspace to it — every sidebar item below becomes scoped to that factory’s models, data, plans, and knowledge base, and your Chat, Workflows, and Projects context follows the switch. See Factory Management for creating, sharing, and exporting factories.

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Navigation Items, Top to Bottom

The sidebar is grouped with visual separators. In order:

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Bottom Cluster

At the bottom of the sidebar, in order:

• Notifications: the in-app notification center
• Feedback: send feedback to the ProDex team
• Tour: starts a guided walkthrough of the page you’re currently on (steps are page-scoped, e.g. “Left navigation, Step 1 of 3”)
• Team: manage the people who share access to your workspace
• Documentation: opens this documentation site
• User avatar: shows your email; its menu contains Language, Theme (Light / Dark / System), a Desktop notifications toggle, and Logout

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How Dexter Shows Up Outside Chat

Dexter is not confined to the Chat page. Even on Modeler, Results, Planning, or any other surface, Dexter works alongside you:

• Session-context awareness: Dexter knows which page you’re on and which objects you have selected — a specific model, run, or pipeline. You can ask “why is utilization so low here?” without restating what “here” is.
• Tasks: when Dexter is doing multi-step work on your behalf (profiling a dataset, building a model, running an analysis), it maintains a visible task list so you can see what’s in flight, what’s done, and what’s next — no status-update questions needed.
• Action cards: when the natural next step is to open a specific surface (start a project, add data, review a run), Dexter surfaces a button-style action card in the conversation that takes you there directly.
• Review briefs: when Dexter needs your sign-off before something consequential — approving derived cycle times, advancing a project phase, publishing a report — it presents a structured brief with an approve / request-changes decision.

See Chat and Tasks for the full picture of working with Dexter.

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Feature Flags

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Where to Go Next

• Your First Project: upload data, talk to Dexter, get your first artifact
• Your First Simulation: build and run a model end to end
• Key Concepts: the vocabulary the rest of the docs assumes