---
title: "Application"
description: "one customer question the platform can answer over a vertical, with what it needs, what it gives, and the check that would show it wrong"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/application
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Application

one customer question the platform can answer over a vertical, with what it needs, what it gives, and the check that would show it wrong

[figure: Application is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `customer_question` | `text` | yes |  |
| `inputs` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `outputs` | `[text]` | yes | the surfaces it lands on |
| `context_modes` | `[one of the platform's own offering \| a customer's brand \| an agency's client \| a person's own workspace]` | yes |  |
| `failure_checks` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `state` | [Readiness](/concepts/readiness) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Application directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.