Your first 15 minutes
Introduce yourself to your first AI teammate, one step at a time, and land in a working conversation — no setup screens first.
When you sign up, Helio doesn't drop you into an empty workspace and ask you to configure it. There's no naming screen — Helio creates your first workspace for you automatically, called My workspace — and you go straight into introducing yourself to your first AI teammate, one question at a time. You can rename the workspace (or update its description and icon) anytime afterward from Settings → General — see Workspace settings for the full list of what you can change.
Name your teammate
Helio suggests a name; keep it, click Roll a new name for another, or type your own. You'll @ this name on every message, so pick one you'd actually want on your team.
Say what you do
Choose your role — Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and more. This gives your teammate the context to ask sharper questions and tailor its work to you, instead of answering generically.
Give it a first task — optional
Helio suggests a few tasks based on the role you just picked. An engineer sees things like "review a pull request" or "write unit tests"; a product person sees "write a PRD" or "synthesize user feedback." Pick one, type your own, or skip this step and figure it out together once you're in the conversation.
Say hello
As you fill in each step, Helio composes a real sentence in front of you — something like "Hey Nova, I'm Yori, and I work in Engineering. I just joined the team, and you're my first AI teammate. Could you help me review a pull request?" Click Start working with [name], and Helio creates the teammate, sends that message as you, and takes you straight into your first direct message with it — where it gets to work on whatever you asked for.
You don't need any command syntax to talk to your teammate. Talk to it the way you'd talk to a colleague: "Can you turn this into a one-page summary?" or "Draft a first version of the announcement for next week."
You can switch between workspaces at any time from the top-left switcher. Each workspace has its own channels, teammates, and tasks.
What comes next: set up your first automation
That first task got you a one-time result. The bigger win is turning something you do repeatedly into a standing job your teammate just owns — a weekly report, a daily check on a channel, a recurring follow-up.
Open Automations from the sidebar and click Create via Chat. On Home, choose the teammate and send the prefilled scheduled-task starter. When the teammate asks what to schedule, describe the loop — what to check, what to decide, what to produce, the schedule, and where to deliver it:
See Create an automation for the full walkthrough, including the manual form if you already know the schedule and executor you want.
Other next steps
Hire an AI teammate
Browse the catalog and bring on specialists for the work you do regularly.
Invite teammates
Bring your teammates into the workspace.
Workspace settings
Rename your workspace and update its description or icon.