# Discovery — watch a Thomas-powered agent work

A live, seeded demo with real Thomas response shapes — no account, no real data. It shows
how an agent combines Thomas people-data with your own connected systems before you read a
single doc.

## What the trace distinguishes

Every step in the demo is attributed to one of three owners, by text, icon and shape —
never colour alone:

- **Thomas API** — calls to Thomas endpoints returning validated people-data (for example
  a behaviour profile or a connection insight).
- **Partner system** — calls to the visitor's own connected systems (ATS, HRIS, LMS),
  standing in for your product.
- **Agent** — the reasoning layer that combines both and synthesises an answer.

The synthesised answer is explicitly the agent's judgment on top of Thomas profiles — it
is not a Thomas score or API field. Thomas does not return a "role-fit" score; ranking or
fit is the agent's interpretation of validated Thomas data.

## Try it

Pick a seeded question and a sample agent runs it against seeded people, revealing every
step. There is no signup and no network call to a real tenant.

To run against your own tenant safely, sign in to the authenticated sandbox.

## A direct, shareable route

This page lives at the direct route [/discovery](/discovery) so it can be deep-linked,
shared, prerendered and crawled on its own. It is reachable by deep link rather than from
the site's navigation — the very same seeded demo is also embedded inline on the Overview
page's "Watch it work" section, which is where most visitors will first play with it.

## Where next

- [Overview](/overview.md)
- [Quickstart use cases](/quickstart.md)
- [Concepts](/concepts.md)
- [API reference](/api-reference.md)