Clay stores and presents data in four main levels: workspaces, bases, tables and records.

• Workspaces. When you first open Clay you'll find yourself in your Personal Workspace - this is your personal piece of Clay. Workspaces are the highest level of Clay and are home to bases. They can be created by anyone with a Clay account, and can then be shared with teammates or any other Clay users via invitations.

• Bases. One level down from workspaces, bases are home to tables. Much like a spreadsheet housing sheets, each base is made of multiple tables. Similarly to workspaces, individual bases can be shared with teammates or any other Clay users via invitations.

• Tables. The place where the magic happens, made up of columns and rows, tables are the level at which you will weave together data sources, actions, and other integrations to automate your prospecting and workflows. You'll also import or export CSVs here.

• Records. Records (or rows) are made up of individuals fields. These fields are either manually added, data previews returned from an action, or fields extracted from an action's returned data.

• Fields. The smallest unit of Clay, fields are either manually added, data previews returned from an action, or fields extracted from an action's returns. Actions can be re-run at the field level.

<aside> 🙋🏽‍♀️ To figure out how to get started, either check out the Clay template gallery or the tutorial for setting up your very first base Custom enrich a list of companies.

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