> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.odella.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Quickstart Guide
> Set up Odella, understand the workspace, and create your first useful AI Employee.
# 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
Use Google, Microsoft, or email to create your Odella account.
Confirm your email address so your workspace can be created securely.
Add basic information about your organization so Odella can tailor the workspace to your team.
## 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.
Create, hire, and manage AI Employees with clear roles, responsibilities, tools, and work history.
Build reusable processes that workers can run when completing assigned tasks.
Turn recurring documents into reusable PDF or DOCX templates.
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.
* 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
* 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.
Go to **Workforce** and choose **Add Worker**.
Give the worker a plain-language role such as “Intake Assistant”, “Report Reviewer”, or “Finance Admin Worker”.
Describe what the worker should do, what it should avoid, and when a human should review the output.
Attach the workflows, templates, documents, and tools the worker needs to complete the task.
A strong first worker has one job. You can always expand its responsibilities after your team trusts the workflow.
## 5. Connect the work system
A useful worker usually needs three things:
The policies, files, examples, and business context it should use.
The repeatable process it should follow from input to output.
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
Learn how workers are managed across roles, capabilities, working hours, and work history.
Learn how to build and maintain the workflows your workers use.
Learn how templates help your team create consistent documents quickly.
Review the controls that help keep your workspace governed and secure.