# Welcome to Bird

The parts of Bird every channel shares: contacts, webhooks, and verification.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQcfVu5XhA (0:55)

## What we cover

- A tour of the dashboard
- Where to find your API keys
- What to set up before you send anything

## Transcript

_Auto-generated from the video._

Hey, welcome to Bird. You've just landed on our homepage. From here, you can start exploring all of the different channels and options that we have. Whether it's sending an email, sending out an SMS, integrating verify, or setting up WhatsApp. Throughout the entire product, you'll find various guided videos to enable you to get started as quick as possible. Have a look at our documentation page at bird.com/docs to find all of our API documentation to integrate Bird into your system.

Don't forget we also have an MCP mcp.bird.com enabling your agents to efficiently tell different tools to start working with bird directly. If you've got any questions about pricing, have a look at our pricing page bird.com/pricing and then there's various videos on our YouTube to really get going as fast as possible. Now, without any further ado, happy sending.

## More Platform basics

- [Manage your customers: contacts & audiences](/learn/basics/manage-your-customers-contacts-and-audiences) — 7:28
- [Webhooks done right: reliable delivery events](/learn/basics/webhooks-done-right-reliable-delivery-events) — 2:47
- [Getting verified on Bird: the Verification page](/learn/basics/getting-verified-on-bird) — 2:56
- [Setting up your coding agent](/learn/basics/setting-up-your-coding-agent) — 2:39

## Resources

- [Documentation](/docs)


## Related resources

- [Messaging concepts, explained](/explained) (answer)
- [Communications foundations](/learn/courses/foundations) (course)