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 * IRC: `#consul` on Freenode
 * Mailing list: [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool/)
 
-Consul is a tool for managing and coordinating infrastructure. To do that
-it provides several key features:
+Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is
+distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
 
-* Service Discovery - Services can register themselves and to easily
-  discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
+Consul provides several key features:
 
-* Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
+* **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register
+  themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
+  External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
+
+* **Health Checking** - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
   operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service
   discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service
   level circuit breakers.
 
-* Key/Value Store - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration
-  feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP
-  API makes it easy to use anywhere.
+* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing
+  dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and
+  more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
 
-* Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support
-  any number of regions without complex configuration.
+* **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can
+  support any number of regions without complex configuration.
 
 Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the
-Consul servers on Linux however.
+Consul servers only on Linux, however.
 
 ## Quick Start
 
-First, [download a pre-built Consul binary](http://www.consul.io/downloads.html)
-for your operating system or [compile Consul yourself](#developing-consul).
-
 An extensive quick quick start is viewable on the Consul website:
 
 http://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html