Quick Start: Running Your First SPRAPP Panel Query

What You'll Build

In this tutorial you'll send a single question to SPRAPP Panel and read back a synthesized answer drawn from several models reasoning in parallel. No prior setup beyond an account is required, and the free tier is enough to follow along.

Step 1: Create an Account

Sign up and open the Panel workspace. The free tier gives you access to a set of hosted models, so you can complete this tutorial without bringing your own API keys. If you want to use your own provider keys later, SPRAPP Panel supports bring-your-own-key.

Step 2: Pick Your Panel

A panel is just the set of models you want to consult. For a first run, choose three to five models from different families. Diversity matters more than raw count here — a panel of three genuinely different models usually surfaces more disagreement than five near-identical ones. The full list of available models and how to configure them lives at https://doc.sprapp.com.

Step 3: Ask a Question

Type a question that has some nuance — something where reasonable models might disagree. Factual lookups ("what year did X happen") are a poor demo because every model agrees instantly. Try a question that involves tradeoffs or interpretation.

Step 4: Read the Synthesis

Panel returns each model's response plus a synthesized view. Read the individual answers first. Where the models agree, you can have higher confidence. Where they diverge, that divergence is the signal — it tells you the question is genuinely contested or underspecified.

Step 5: Iterate

If the answers were all over the place, your prompt was probably ambiguous. Tighten it and run again. If they were unanimous and boring, you may not have needed a panel at all — a single model would have done.

When a Panel Is Worth It

Be honest with yourself: panels cost more tokens and more latency than a single call. They earn their keep on high-stakes, ambiguous, or hallucination-prone questions. For trivial lookups, a single model is cheaper and just as good. SPRAPP Panel is a tool for the hard questions, not every question.

Next Steps

Once you're comfortable with manual queries, look at the API docs at https://doc.sprapp.com to wire Panel into your own application. From there you can automate panels, log disagreement scores, and route only the uncertain cases through multiple models.