# Overview

> What Insight is, who it is for, and how the Explorer and Testing fit together.

Insight is the GIMLabs **read-only data explorer**. It is a web app that opens
every project in your organisation in one place, so you can browse, filter and
export your ground data - without any risk of changing a thing.

It is built for the people who need to *look* at data rather than edit it -
reviewers, project managers and engineers checking results across jobs - and who
want one clean view of it without opening the Excel add-in or holding edit access
to the source records.

<Callout type="note" title="Runs in your browser">
  Insight is a web app, so there is nothing to install. Sign in at
  [insight.gimlabs.io](https://insight.gimlabs.io) with your GIMLabs account. See
  [Sign in and access](/insight/sign-in-and-access) to get started.
</Callout>

## What you can do

<Cards>
  <Card title="Explore data" href="/insight/explorer">
    Pick a table and read its data in a clean grid - filter by project, overlay
    geological descriptions, and export to CSV or JSON.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Track testing" href="/insight/testing">
    See lab testing schedules and chain of custody across every project, with
    status, due dates and lab activity at a glance.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Read-only by design

Insight never edits your data. There are no edit controls anywhere in the app -
you can browse and export, but the records stay exactly as they were captured.
That makes it safe to give to anyone who needs visibility of a project without
the risk that comes with edit access.

## How it fits with the platform

Insight reads the same project data as the rest of GIMLabs. The locations,
samples and test results you see here are the records captured in
[Log](https://www.gimlabs.io/platform/log), refined in
[Manage](https://www.gimlabs.io/platform/manage) and shared through
[Connect](https://www.gimlabs.io/platform/connect). There is one source of
truth - Insight just gives you a fast, read-only window onto it.

<Callout type="note" title="More views are coming">
  Insight's top navigation also lists **Analytics** and **Map**, which are in
  development and shown as **Coming soon**. Today the live areas are the
  **Explorer** and **Testing**.
</Callout>

## Next

<Cards>
  <Card title="Sign in and access" href="/insight/sign-in-and-access">
    Open Insight, sign in, and understand view and export access.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Core concepts" href="/insight/concepts">
    Configurations, tables, fields, projects and records explained.
  </Card>
</Cards>