> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.generalvalidation.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# General Validation

> Set up your workspace, connect Azure, and reconcile source and target data.

General Validation checks whether the data that landed agrees with the data you
intended to land. Use the hosted application to discover datasets, define tests,
and review outcomes. Validation reads and compute run in your Azure environment.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Get started" icon="rocket" href="/getting-started">
    Sign in, activate your Organization, connect Azure, and build your first test.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Validate data" icon="list-check" href="/when-to-validate">
    Choose your checks, run validations, and investigate results and evidence.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Administration" icon="users" href="/single-sign-on-and-access">
    Manage team access, trial and billing, security, and troubleshooting.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API reference" icon="code" href="/api-and-automation">
    Authenticate to the API and trigger validation from your own orchestration.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Your data boundary

General Validation hosts the application and stores configuration, schemas,
run status, verdicts, counts, and artifact pointers. Source and target rows,
credentials, exact result values, deltas, and row evidence stay in your Azure
environment. When the browser displays detailed results, it reads them directly
from your storage with your Microsoft identity.

[Understand the security model](/security-and-data-boundary) or
[check supported datasets and tests](/supported-scope) before planning your first control.

## Need a hand?

Contact [support@generalvalidation.com](mailto:support@generalvalidation.com)
with your question and the relevant error code or Run ID.