Cirrus & Zion AIDocs
Admin Dashboard
Getting Started

What is Zion AI?

Zion AI is an enterprise customer-service and interaction layer that turns a business’s knowledge, services, websites, and digital workflows into conversational and guided experiences across text, voice, and real-time in-page UI.

The Paradigm Shift

The Traditional Web Experience vs. Zion AI

Traditional Website Experience

Customer visits website → searches navigation menus → reads long FAQ pages → clicks multi-page form → gets confused by banking or KYC jargon → abandons form or calls phone support.

The Zion AI Interaction Layer

Customer opens website → talks or chats with Zion → Zion retrieves official policy knowledge → Zion highlights fields and guides the user through the form → Zion auto-fills values → customer confirms and submits.

Developer Roadmap

Build with Zion AI in 5 Steps

Follow this recommended developer implementation path to integrate enterprise conversational intelligence:

1

Create Assistant

Define system prompt, persona, and models in the dashboard or via API.

2

Add Knowledge

Ingest PDF policies, manuals, or crawl company websites into vector RAG.

3

Generate Key

Create a test API key (zion_sk_test_...) with granular scopes.

4

First Chat Request

Execute your first completion or real-time stream via cURL, TS, or Python.

5

Add Voice / Copilot

Mount in-page copilot guidance widget and WebRTC voice streaming.

Integration Architecture

Enterprise Developer Platform Model

Zion AI operates as a unified API layer. Whether you build frontend user embeds, backend worker services, or agentic automation, all communication flows through authenticated REST/SSE endpoints.

                    ZION PLATFORM
                         │
                  Authentication (3-Tier)
                         │
                    Zion REST API (/v1)
                         │
       ┌─────────────────┼─────────────────┐
       │                 │                 │
   TypeScript          Python            cURL
   @zionai/sdk         zion-ai          HTTP / SSE
       │                 │                 │
       └─────────────────┼─────────────────┘
                         │
               ┌─────────┴─────────┐
               │                   │
         Frontend Embed       Enterprise Backend
      (@zionai/copilot)      (Banking Cores / CRM)
Implementation

5-Minute Integration Quickstart

Connect to Zion AI in three simple steps using our official SDKs or raw HTTP:

1

Install Official SDKs or CLI

Install package
npm install @zionai/sdk
2

Initialize Zion Client or Embed Copilot

Quickstart Usage
import { Zion } from "@zionai/sdk";

// Initialize client with secret key (reads ZION_API_KEY from env by default)
const zion = new Zion({ apiKey: process.env.ZION_API_KEY });

// Execute an assistant conversation
const response = await zion.chat.create({
  assistantId: "ast_bank_advisor",
  message: "What are the account opening requirements?",
});

console.log("Assistant:", response.content);
console.log("Grounded Sources:", response.citations);