# What is Lalabase?

Lalabase is a project tool for software agencies, freelancers and small software companies
that work for clients. Tickets, time tracking, documentation and meetings live in one place,
and an AI assistant answers from your own project data and names its sources.

It runs free on your own server under the AGPL-3.0, or hosted by us in Germany. The AI stays
off until you switch it on, and you choose the provider.

## Where to go next

| You want to | Go to |
|---|---|
| look at it without installing anything | the [live demo](https://demo.lalabase.com): no sign-up, reset every night |
| try it on your own computer | [Try it locally](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/self-hosting/installation/local) |
| run it for your team | [Docker Compose](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/self-hosting/installation/docker-compose) |
| use it without running a server | our [cloud](https://lalabase.com/en/pricing) |
| learn how to work with it | [Create your first project](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/basics/first-project) |
| let an AI agent work with your tickets | [MCP](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/mcp/introduction/overview) |
| read tickets in the terminal | the [CLI tool](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/cli/getting-started/overview) |
| move over from Redmine | [Moving from Redmine](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/import/redmine) |
| compare it with other tools | the [comparisons](https://lalabase.com/en/comparison), which also say when to stay |
| work on the code | [`DEVELOPMENT.md`](https://github.com/lalabase/lalabase/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md) in the repository |

New to the terms? [Core concepts](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/start/introduction/concepts) explains them on one page.

## Open source

The code is on [GitHub](https://github.com/lalabase/lalabase) under the AGPL-3.0. Bug reports,
ideas and questions are welcome as issues. Unsolicited pull requests are not accepted; the
reasons are in
[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/lalabase/lalabase/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).