Pika Platform provides a comprehensive set of capabilities designed to help you build production-ready AI chat applications quickly. This section showcases what's possible and helps you understand which features to enable for your use cases.
What You Can Build
Section titled “What You Can Build”With Pika, you can create:
- Sophisticated chat applications for internal teams or external customers
- Multi-agent systems where specialized agents collaborate on complex tasks
- Tool-powered agents that access your data, APIs, and business logic
- Self-improving systems with automatic quality checks and feedback loops
- Enterprise-grade solutions with robust security, access control, and compliance features
Capabilities by Category
Section titled “Capabilities by Category”Core Platform Capabilities
Section titled “Core Platform Capabilities”The foundation of every Pika deployment:
Advanced Chat Applications
Complete chat experiences with session management, streaming responses, and rich UI - standalone or embedded.
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Enable multiple specialized agents to collaborate on complex tasks requiring different areas of expertise.
Agent-as-Configuration
Define agents, tools, and chat apps as configuration deployed from your microservices - no framework lock-in.
Production-Grade Security
Enterprise authentication, multi-tenancy, access controls, and compliance features built in from day one.
Intelligence Capabilities
Section titled “Intelligence Capabilities”Features that make agents smarter and more reliable:
Intelligent Prompt Engineering
Automated prompt structuring and context-aware instruction augmentation for better agent responses.
Self-Correcting Responses
Independent LLM verifies agent responses and can trigger automatic reprompting to improve quality.
Answer Reasoning & Verification
Transparent AI reasoning shows exactly what the agent did and why, with quality grades for each response.
LLM-Generated Feedback
Automatic analysis of completed sessions identifies patterns, edge cases, and improvement opportunities.
AI-Driven Insights
Session metrics, sentiment analysis, goal completion tracking, and quality assessments generated automatically.
Integration Capabilities
Section titled “Integration Capabilities”Connect agents to your data and services:
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Standardized integration with external tools and services through MCP servers.
Inline Tools
Lightweight TypeScript functions for rapid prototyping without Lambda deployment overhead.
Direct Agent Invocation
Call agents programmatically via API for system integrations without chat UI overhead.
Customization Capabilities
Section titled “Customization Capabilities”Tailor the platform to your needs:
Custom Web Components
Build rich, interactive UI elements that agents can render with full AI access and streaming support.
AI-Driven UI
Let agents dynamically generate UI components based on user needs and context.
Feature Overrides
Customize platform behavior per chat app with fine-grained feature controls.
Data & Memory Capabilities
Section titled “Data & Memory Capabilities”Persistent context and session management:
User Memory
Agents remember user preferences and context across all sessions for personalized interactions.
Session Management
Conversations persist with full history, searchable archives, and secure sharing capabilities.
Enterprise Capabilities
Section titled “Enterprise Capabilities”Tools for managing production deployments:
Admin Site
Complete administrative interface for managing apps, users, access controls, and reviewing sessions.
Access Control & Permissions
Fine-grained control over who can access which chat apps with role-based and entity-based permissions.
Multi-Tenancy Support
Entity-based isolation enables multiple organizations on one deployment with complete data separation.
Entity Management
Organize users by organizational boundaries with entity-based access control and data isolation.
Understanding Capabilities vs Features
Section titled “Understanding Capabilities vs Features”Capabilities describe what you can accomplish with Pika - the outcomes and value you can deliver to users.
Features are the technical building blocks that enable those capabilities.
This section focuses on capabilities to help you understand what's possible. For technical implementation details, see:
- How-To Guides - Step-by-step instructions for implementing capabilities
- Concepts - Understanding how capabilities work under the hood
- Reference - Technical specifications and API details
Getting Started with Capabilities
Section titled “Getting Started with Capabilities”- Explore this section to understand what Pika can do
- Identify capabilities that match your use cases
- Check How-To Guides for implementation instructions
- Enable features in your configuration as needed
Next Steps
Section titled “Next Steps”Ready to dive deeper?
Start with Core Capabilities
Understand the foundation every Pika deployment provides.
See Capabilities in Action
Review the Weather Sample to see multiple capabilities working together.
Learn How to Implement
Move from understanding to implementation with How-To Guides.