Quickstart
This guide takes you from a new account to your first practical Odella setup. The goal is not to automate everything at once. Start with one worker, one responsibility, and one repeatable task your team already understands.1. Create your account

2. Understand the workspace
After signing in, Odella opens to the workforce area. This is where you create and manage the workers that make up your AI workforce.
Workforce
Create, hire, and manage AI Employees with clear roles, responsibilities, tools, and work history.
Workflows
Build reusable processes that workers can run when completing assigned tasks.
Templates
Turn recurring documents into reusable PDF or DOCX templates.
Documents
Store files, research, and private knowledge that workers can reference.
3. Choose your first use case
Pick a process that is clear, repeatable, and easy to review. Good first use cases usually have a known input, a known output, and a person who can check the result.Good first use cases
Good first use cases
- Preparing a recurring report from source documents
- Summarising intake information into a structured format
- Drafting a document from an approved template
- Checking a file for missing information
- Routing a request to the correct person or workflow
Use cases to save for later
Use cases to save for later
- Processes with unclear ownership
- Work with no review criteria
- High-risk decisions without human approval
- One-off tasks that do not repeat often
4. Create or hire a worker
In Odella, workers are most useful when they have a narrow role and clear responsibilities.Define the role
Give the worker a plain-language role such as “Intake Assistant”, “Report Reviewer”, or “Finance Admin Worker”.
Add responsibilities
Describe what the worker should do, what it should avoid, and when a human should review the output.
5. Connect the work system
A useful worker usually needs three things:Knowledge
The policies, files, examples, and business context it should use.
Workflow
The repeatable process it should follow from input to output.
Review
The human checkpoint that confirms the work is correct before it matters.
6. Run, review, and improve
Once the worker is configured, run the task on a real but low-risk example. Review the result, update the worker’s instructions, and improve the workflow until the output is consistent.Odella works best when treated like onboarding a new teammate: start with context, assign a narrow responsibility, review early work, then increase trust over time.
Next steps
Workforce overview
Learn how workers are managed across roles, capabilities, working hours, and work history.
Workflow overview
Learn how to build and maintain the workflows your workers use.
Template overview
Learn how templates help your team create consistent documents quickly.
Security
Review the controls that help keep your workspace governed and secure.

