Understanding the dashboard
Navigate Research, team tools, usage, settings, and workspaces in Parallect.ai
Understanding the dashboard
When you first open Parallect after sign-in, you'll typically land on Research -- your list of research threads. This is the center of the product: every deep research job lives here as a thread you can reopen, search for, and continue later.
Sidebar navigation
The left sidebar is the fastest way to move between areas of the app:
| Section | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Research | Your threads -- past and in-progress research. Start new work and return to results. Includes a collections sidebar for organizing threads into groups. |
| Team | Collaboration and team-facing tools (covered in the Teams & Organizations docs). |
| Following | A feed of published reports from researchers you follow. |
| Usage | Credit usage, spend by provider, and job history over time. |
| Referrals | Share Parallect, track referral activity, and see bonuses you've earned. |
| Integrations | Connect external tools like Cursor, Claude Desktop, and OpenClaw. |
| Settings | Profile, API keys, billing, organizations, and AI Memory. |
| Support | Opens a chat panel where you can contact the Parallect team for help. |
You don't need to memorize every item on day one -- Research and Settings are the two you'll touch most often early on.
Personal and organization workspaces
Near your account controls, you can switch between personal and organization workspaces. Your personal workspace is yours alone; organizations add shared context, billing, and collaboration (invites, roles, and shared projects are covered in the teams documentation).
If you don't use an organization yet, stay on your personal workspace -- everything in this guide applies the same way.
Thread list: find and scan your work
The thread list is built for skimming:
- Scroll -- Older threads stay available; scroll to browse history.
- Search -- Filter the list when you remember part of a title or want to jump back to a topic quickly.
- Collections -- Organize threads into groups using the collection sidebar on the left.
- Tabs -- Switch between My research and Shared with me to see threads others have shared directly with you.
- Thread cards -- Each card summarizes a thread so you can spot status, title, and recency at a glance.
Starting new research
Use New Research (or the prominent "start new research" area on the threads page) to open the flow where you enter a question, choose providers, budget, and mode. The dialog gathers everything needed for a single research job -- you'll get a full walkthrough in the next article.
Think of a thread as one ongoing conversation line: each run can add depth, but the entry point for a new query always starts from this action.
You're oriented. The natural next step is to run a complete research job once -- query, providers, tier, mode, and reading the synthesis and per-provider results.