# Core concepts
Source: https://nordvec.com/sk/docs/guides/concepts

The two things everything in Nordvec is built on, documents you can search and conversations that cite them.



Every connector, push and search in Nordvec produces or reads a document, and
every answer the assistant gives is a conversation grounded in those documents.
Start here to learn what each one holds and who can see it.

- [Documents & search](https://nordvec.com/sk/docs/guides/concepts/documents): Documents are the searchable unit in Nordvec. Ingest them, then find them with full-text search over the API.
- [Conversations & citations](https://nordvec.com/sk/docs/guides/concepts/conversations): A conversation is a chat grounded in your documents, where every answer is traced to its source.