> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bey.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Your guide to building conversational video agents.

## What is Beyond Presence?

Beyond Presence is a developer platform for **Conversational Video Agents** that look and feel like real people.

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  <div className="border border-gray-200 rounded-lg overflow-hidden my-4">
    <button
      onClick={() => setIsOpen(!isOpen)}
      className="w-full text-left p-4 font-semibold hover:bg-gray-50 flex items-center justify-between transition-colors"
    >
      <span>🚀 Try our demo!</span>
      <svg
        className={`w-5 h-5 transform transition-transform ${isOpen ? 'rotate-180' : ''}`}
        fill="none"
        stroke="currentColor"
        viewBox="0 0 24 24"
      >
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      </svg>
    </button>

    {isOpen && (
      <div className="border-t border-gray-200 p-4">
        <iframe
          src="https://bey.chat/agent/defaultAgent"
          width="100%"
          height="600px"
          frameBorder="0"
          allow="camera; microphone; fullscreen"
          allowFullScreen
        />
      </div>
    )}
  </div>
);
})()}

## Why Beyond Presence?

Traditional chatbots feel robotic.
Video calls require human availability.
Beyond Presence bridges this gap with AI that maintains human connection at machine scale.

Our proprietary real-time avatar models deliver hyper-realistic, multilingual, low-latency interactions. Built in Europe, for Enterprise scale.

### Key Features

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  <Accordion title="Ultra-realistic avatars" icon="sparkles">
    Powered by our proprietary AI research in computer vision and generative modeling. Our avatars deliver lifelike facial expressions, natural lip-sync, and human-like micro-movements that create genuine emotional connections with users.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Lightning speed" icon="bolt">
    Industry-leading performance with 250 ms speech-to-video latency and 1-second end-to-end response times. Real-time conversations feel natural and fluid, eliminating the awkward delays that plague traditional video chat solutions.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Enterprise scale" icon="chart-line-up">
    Handle hundreds of simultaneous video calls without performance degradation. Our distributed infrastructure automatically scales to meet demand, ensuring consistent quality whether you're serving one user or thousands.

    Visit our [Enterprise page](https://www.beyondpresence.ai/enterprise) for more information on Enterprise support.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Flexible integration" icon="puzzle-piece">
    Choose your level of control: from fully managed Studio solutions to custom API components. Whether you need plug-and-play widgets or granular programmatic control, our platform adapts to your technical requirements and timeline.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Developer-focused platform" icon="code">
    Built by ML engineers who understand your workflow. Clean APIs, comprehensive documentation, and thoughtful abstractions that let you focus on your product instead of wrestling with infrastructure complexity.

    We also have a [Discord community](https://bey.dev/community) where you can ask questions and get help from our team and other developers.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Get Started

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  <Card title="Choose Path" icon="route" href="/get-started/choose-path">
    Learn about our integration options and find the right path for you.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/get-started/quickstart/speech-to-video">
    Jump right into our Python Speech-to-Video Quickstart with LiveKit Agents
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Learn More

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  <Card title="Agents" icon="robot" href="/concepts/agents">
    LLM-powered AI assistants that can operate across text, voice, or video modalities. They understand context, maintain dialogue flow, and tailor responses to your use case and knowledge base.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Avatars" icon="user" href="/concepts/avatars">
    Digital human models that transform text or voice agents into video agents, complete with natural expressions, lip-sync, and human-like gestures.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Studio" icon="grip" href="/concepts/studio">
    Web-based management interface for creating, configuring, and monitoring your video agents - upload knowledge bases, test conversations, and deploy without code.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API" icon="code" href="/concepts/api">
    Direct programmatic access to our platform. Embed video agents into your applications and control agent behavior dynamically via our REST API.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>