# Try it without an account

If you were sent a try link, you get a locked workspace for a day with no account: build one real app, run it, and keep it by proving your email. What a trial can and cannot do.

URL: https://docs.qaldy.com/getting-started/try-it/

Qaldy Cloud is a closed pilot, and there is no public sign-up page. A **try link** is how Qaldy lets someone see it work before they decide: you open the link and, with no account, get a workspace of your own for a day.

:::preview Preview, and by invitation
Trial links are made by Qaldy for specific people, with a cap on how many times each can be used. A link only works where the pilot has trials switched on. If yours says it cannot start a trial, it has been used up, has ended, or trials are off; ask whoever sent it.
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## What happens

:::steps
1. **Open the link.** Opening it starts nothing: a chat app that previews a link does not use up a trial. You press **Start the trial** to begin.
2. **You are in a workspace of your own**, as its owner, for 24 hours. There is no password and no email yet.
3. **Press Build Leave requests.** The builder runs offline, from a template that needs nothing outside Qaldy. Today there is one: **Leave requests**, a form app where staff send a request and a manager sees it. It takes about a minute. Open the app and send a request.
4. **Keep it, or let it go.** **Keep it** asks for your email, sends you a six-digit code, and moves the workspace to you as a normal account. **End trial** deletes it at once. If you do neither, it ends at 24 hours.
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## What a trial can and cannot do

| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| How long a trial lasts | 24 hours |
| Apps | 1 |
| Runs | 25 |
| Build plans an hour | 8 |

Everything not listed is refused: connectors, sharing, public links, tokens, invites, plan changes, the Backend and every call to a model. Requests are rate limited too. The limits exist so that a trial cannot be turned into free computing.

## What happens to what you made

- If you **keep it**, the workspace, its app and its history become yours under your email, with the default data policy restored. Nothing is copied.
- If you **end it** or it expires, the workspace, its app and the visitor are deleted, six hours after expiry at the latest. Audit rows are append-only by design and stay, but hold no address.
- Qaldy keeps, for a week after, a record of the trial with a **hashed** form of your network address (so a restart cannot reset the per-network limits) and the dates. It holds no name.

## What it does not prove

A trial runs the real builder and the real sandbox, but only the one template and no connections, so it shows how Qaldy works, not that your own workflow will fit. The path is tested end to end; "under three minutes" is a goal and has not been timed with strangers.

Ready to build for real? Go on to [Sign up](https://docs.qaldy.com/getting-started/sign-up/).