# HotRoute Docs > Product documentation for HotRoute, a football operating system for structured play design, operations, learning, collaboration, and governed customer-safe retrieval. ## Primary URLs - Product: https://hotroute.io/ - Documentation: https://docs.hotroute.io/ - Sitemap: https://docs.hotroute.io/sitemap.xml - Full agent corpus: https://docs.hotroute.io/llms-full.txt - Semantic manifest: https://docs.hotroute.io/semantic-manifest.json ## Recommended Entry Points - [HotRoute Docs](https://docs.hotroute.io/) - Summary: Understand what HotRoute is, how the docs are organized, and how football staff can evaluate the platform through a clearer docs map. - Audience: Prospects, pilot users, coaches, operators, and internal teammates sharing canonical product explanations. - Category: Start Here - Status: live - Updated: 2026-04-04T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: hotroute docs, football intelligence platform, cognitive operating system - [What is HotRoute?](https://docs.hotroute.io/what-is-hotroute) - Summary: HotRoute is a cognitive operating system for football organizations that need a shared model for design, learning, operations, and institutional memory. - Audience: Prospects, pilot users, coaches, coordinators, and operators trying to place HotRoute in the right category. - Category: Start Here - Status: live - Updated: 2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: what is hotroute, football operating system, cognitive operating system - [Play Designer](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/play-designer) - Summary: Learn how HotRoute Play Designer helps coaches inspect and edit a structured play workspace, validate draft state, manage lifecycle, and keep downstream panels tied to the play object. - Audience: Coordinators, play designers, analysts, and trusted staff members who create, inspect, validate, and prepare football intent inside a play workspace. - Category: Feature Guides - Status: beta - Updated: 2026-06-07T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: play designer, play workspace, play validation, play lifecycle, football intent, play simulation dock - [How HotRoute Is Organized](https://docs.hotroute.io/how-hotroute-is-organized) - Summary: HotRoute is organized around five connected product areas that together model, design, teach, coordinate, and retain football knowledge. - Audience: Readers who need a stable mental model of the platform before evaluating specific workflows or features. - Category: Coaching Philosophy / Operating Model - Status: live - Updated: 2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: hotroute organization, product areas, football workflows - [Glossary](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/glossary) - Summary: A shared vocabulary for the core HotRoute concepts used across the docs site. - Audience: Any reader who wants consistent definitions for the product language used across pages. - Category: Reference - Status: live - Updated: 2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: hotroute glossary, football product terms, shared vocabulary - [Retrieval and Search](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/retrieval-and-search) - Summary: Understand how HotRoute customer-safe retrieval and search should cite product docs and visible football canon without exposing hidden private state. - Audience: Coaches, organization owners, analysts, and approved customer-agent users who need to understand search, citations, and refusal behavior. - Category: Reference - Status: beta - Updated: 2026-06-06T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: retrieval, search, semantic search, citations, product docs, canonical truth, service accounts - [External API](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/external-api) - Summary: Understand the customer-safe HotRoute external API surface for approved service-account access. - Audience: Organization owners, football operations leads, analysts, and approved technical partners who need to understand which HotRoute resources can be reached by trusted integrations. - Category: Reference - Status: beta - Updated: 2026-06-07T00:00:00.000Z - Keywords: external api, service accounts, api keys, integrations, semantic search, callsheet render ## All Public Docs - [HotRoute Docs](https://docs.hotroute.io/) - [What is HotRoute?](https://docs.hotroute.io/what-is-hotroute) - [Getting Started](https://docs.hotroute.io/getting-started) - [Modeling and Simulation](https://docs.hotroute.io/product-areas/modeling-and-simulation) - [Design and Optimization](https://docs.hotroute.io/product-areas/design-and-optimization) - [Learning and Cognition](https://docs.hotroute.io/product-areas/learning-and-cognition) - [Operations and Orchestration](https://docs.hotroute.io/product-areas/operations-and-orchestration) - [Collaboration and Memory](https://docs.hotroute.io/product-areas/collaboration-and-memory) - [Sign In and Account Setup](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/sign-in-and-account-setup) - [Home Dashboard and Navigation](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/home-dashboard-and-navigation) - [Profile and Account Review](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/profile-and-account-review) - [Collaboration Workspace](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/collaboration-workspace) - [Team Setup and Workspace](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/team-setup-and-workspace) - [People and Personnel](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/people-and-personnel) - [Rosters and Depth Charts](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/rosters-and-depth-charts) - [Locations, Schedule, and Opponents](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/locations-schedule-and-opponents) - [Authority Workspace](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/authority-workspace) - [Object-Linked Collaboration](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/object-linked-collaboration) - [Playbook Manager](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/playbook-manager) - [Playbooks](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/playbooks) - [Systems, Concepts, and Archetypes](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/canon-objects) - [Plays](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/plays) - [Play Designer](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/play-designer) - [Play Grid](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/play-grid) - [Play Sequences](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/play-sequences) - [Play Scripts](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/play-scripts) - [Callsheets](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/callsheets) - [Gameplans and Print Exports](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/gameplans-and-print-exports) - [Install Packages](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/install-packages) - [Practice and Drill Library](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/practice-and-drills) - [Weekly Readiness](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/weekly-readiness) - [Scenario Library](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/scenario-library) - [Simulation Profiles](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/simulation-profiles) - [Terminology Registry](https://docs.hotroute.io/feature-guides/terminology) - [From Concept to Execution](https://docs.hotroute.io/workflows/from-concept-to-execution) - [Teach by Role and Context](https://docs.hotroute.io/workflows/teach-by-role-and-context) - [Coordinate the Week](https://docs.hotroute.io/workflows/coordinate-the-week) - [How HotRoute Is Organized](https://docs.hotroute.io/how-hotroute-is-organized) - [Organization Configuration](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/organization) - [Invite Code](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/invite-code) - [Manage Service Accounts](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/service-accounts) - [Install the hot CLI](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/hot-cli-setup) - [Staff Authority](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/staff-authority) - [Authority Roles](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/authority-roles) - [Authority Delegations](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/authority-delegations) - [Organization Standards](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/organization-standards) - [Organization Defaults](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/organization-defaults) - [Billing Settings](https://docs.hotroute.io/administration/billing-settings) - [Glossary](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/glossary) - [FAQ / Help / Next Steps](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/faq-help-next-steps) - [Docs Site Standards](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/docs-site-standards) - [Retrieval and Search](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/retrieval-and-search) - [External API](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/external-api) - [Customer Agent Integrations](https://docs.hotroute.io/reference/customer-agent-integrations)