The main goal of these notes is the description of a non-linear complex into which the integrability (or compatibility) condition is inserted as a non-linear operator in such a way that exactness implies the integrability of the almost-structure (existence of local coordinates for the structure) or, by the introduction of parameters, the existence of a (germ of) deformation of the structure. To the non-linear complex are attached some fundamental identities and a structure equation. The non-linear complex is a finite form of the initial portion of a linear complex which is a differential graded Lie algebra. The operators in the non-linear and linear complexes are of first order.