# YOUR FIRST MODEL

- [Setting up your first project](/swallow/your-first-model/setting-up-your-first-project.md)
- [Manual setup of a new product](/swallow/your-first-model/manual-setup-of-a-new-product.md): A guide to setting up your first product in Swallow.
- [Excel Model Upload](/swallow/your-first-model/excel-model-upload.md): Swallow models created from XLS uploads
- [Create your team](/swallow/your-first-model/create-your-team.md): A guide to setting up your first team in Swallow
- [Essential concepts](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts.md): Master these concepts and you will be able to build any type of financial project
- [Syntax](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts/syntax.md): This is the structure of the language you'll be using to code nearly all steps and decisions in your pricing model, writing rules, filtering data, looking up variables and applying transforms.
- [Steps](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts/steps.md): Steps are the core of our drag-and-drop price builder
- [Collections](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts/collections.md): Using Collections to dynamically query large data sets
- [Try Model](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts/try-model.md): Interact with your model from anywhere in your project
- [Spotlight](/swallow/your-first-model/essential-concepts/spotlight.md): Find anything in your model, on any page, by using the Spotlight tool