Getting started with Vulgate

Welcome to Vulgate. This guide gets you from sign-up to your first AI-powered query in under ten minutes.

1. Create your account

Head to vulgate.ai and click Sign up. You can register with an email and password, or continue with Google, Facebook, or Microsoft. We'll send a confirmation email — open it and click the link to activate your account.

When you sign in for the first time, Vulgate asks you to confirm your name and preferred language. The language you pick here controls the interface; it does not restrict which document languages you can upload or search.

2. Choose a plan

After confirming your account you'll land on the Plans page. The Free plan is enough to upload a handful of documents and try chat and search; paid plans unlock more storage, more ingestion credits, and Organization features.

You can change or cancel your plan at any time from Settings → Billing. See Adjusting your plan for the full walkthrough.

3. Invite teammates (optional)

If you're working with others, create an Organization and invite them now so they can start uploading their own documents. Open Settings → Org settings and use the Invite members section. Read Managing organization members for role-by-role details.

If you're flying solo, you can skip this step — your personal team is created automatically.

4. Install the app (optional but recommended)

Vulgate ships as a Progressive Web App, so it installs on macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS without an app-store download. The installed app gets its own window, dock icon, and offline-friendly shell. See Download the Vulgate app for per-platform steps.

5. Add your first documents

Open Uploads → Upload in the sidebar, then drag-and-drop PDFs, images, text, and audio files into the upload area or pick them from disk. Vulgate's ingestion pipeline runs OCR, structures the text into TEI XML, and generates the embeddings that power neural search.

Most short documents finish in a minute or two; larger PDFs and audio files can take longer. You can watch progress under Uploads → Processing.

6. Ask your first question

Once your documents are ingested, open Chat from the sidebar. Type a natural-language question — for example, "Summarize what the council says about Eucharistic adoration" — and Vulgate will retrieve the most relevant passages, generate an answer, and footnote every citation. See Chat with your Library for everything chat can do.

Prefer the more traditional search experience? Open Search in the sidebar and use the Advanced search dialog to pick Neural or Keyword — How to query your Library walks you through both.

Next steps

Stuck on something this guide didn't cover? Email us at info@vulgate.ai.