Help
How can we help?
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Guides
Get started
- Choose Get started on heyarchon.com and sign up with Google, GitHub or your email.
- On Home, choose Connect next to "Archon needs an AI connection to answer".
- Pick how you connect, then ask Archon anything in the box at the bottom.
Connect your AI
- Open Connect your AI, from Home or from settings.
- Choose For you, for your private chats, or For the workspace, for rooms and shared agents.
- Use your Claude or ChatGPT plan with the Mac app, sign in with Grok, or choose Add API key for OpenRouter, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI or xAI. More services lists the rest.
Invite your team
- In the sidebar, under Team, choose Add teammate.
- Choose Invite a person.
- Add their email addresses and choose Send invitations. Each person gets their own Archon.
Make an agent
- Under Team, choose Add teammate, then Create an agent.
- Give it a name and say what it does. It starts private, and you can share it from Team.
- What it makes waits for your approval.
Get the Mac app
- Sign in on heyarchon.com/download and choose Download for Mac.
- Open the disk image and drag Archon to Applications.
- Open Archon and choose your workspace: one on your Mac, or the online one you already use.
Getting started
Do we have to be a company?
No. Use Archon on your own or with a team, project or organization.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta. When plans start you pay for people, never for agents, and we will write a month before any plan starts.
How do people sign in?
Today: an email code, Google or GitHub. Tell us what your organization uses.
Is there a phone app?
The iPhone app is coming soon. Until then, open Archon in your phone's browser and add it to your Home Screen: it opens like an app.
Do I have to set up agents?
No. Tell your Archon what you need. It selects the skills, tools and model for the task.
Can I change how my Archon looks?
Yes. Choose its colour, one of five designs of light and one of thirteen shapes of glass, with an optional accent. Your Archon looks the same across the workspace, so your team can recognize it.
Working with your Archon
How does it know how we work?
From your Library, rooms, work and connected tools. Each person's Archon can access only what that person can.
How does it know me?
From the email, calendar and files you connect, and what you tell it. It reads only what you can.
What if it gets something wrong?
You can change direction, take over or stop it. Archon asks before any action you can't undo, every time. Work handed to a helper or started in a room waits for your review.
Can my Archon speak for me?
It can answer questions about your work, within the room's permissions. It cannot approve actions for you. You can see what it said on Home.
Will my team see my private work?
No. Another person's Archon reads only what that person can, and answers about your work only within what a room may see.
Can it run on a schedule?
Yes. Make it a routine: say what to do and when, and name the person who reviews each result.
Is there a record of what it did?
Yes. Every step is on the record: what it read, did and changed. Agents never see the passwords or keys of connected tools.
Your team
Does it replace our team chat?
It can. Use rooms and direct messages to talk with your team, call by voice or video, and ask Archon to work on tasks from the conversation.
Who takes notes on a call?
Your Archon, only when someone in the call asks. Everyone in the call sees that notes are on and who asked for them, and anyone can stop them. When the call ends, the note-taker's Archon posts the notes in the room: what was decided and who does what next, ready to start Work.
Can we add agents to the team?
Yes. Create an agent for a standing job, such as chasing invoices or answering support. It starts private, is looked after by a person, uses only the tools it is given, and its work waits for its person to approve. Agents never take a seat.
Do agents cost extra?
No. You pay for people. Agents never take a seat, and there is no markup on your models.
Can each client's work stay separate?
Yes. Give each client a room. Rooms keep their own permissions, and Archon answers in a room with only what that room may see. For a client that must be kept fully apart, use its own workspace: each workspace is its own privacy boundary.
Can volunteers use it?
Yes. Invite anyone to the workspace. Each person gets their own Archon, and rooms keep their own permissions.
Connectors
Can it work in our project tool?
Yes, through monday.com, ClickUp, Linear, Airtable or Notion. It asks before it changes anything there.
Does it work with our CRM?
Attio, Apollo and Close today. Not HubSpot or Salesforce yet. It asks before it changes anything in your CRM.
Does it work with our help desk?
Intercom and Help Scout today. Connect yours, and Archon reads conversations and help articles and drafts replies for you to send.
Which code hosts does it work with?
It works on GitHub projects. It works with GitLab, Linear, Jira and Sentry through their connectors.
Does it connect to QuickBooks or Xero?
Not yet. Today it reads Stripe, PayPal, Square and Mercury, and the files you keep in Google Drive.
Does it connect to our HR system?
Not yet. Today it works with your email, calendar, documents and forms.
AI and models
Which AI models does it use?
Yours. Connect your own provider accounts, or run models on your own Macs. Archon picks a model for each task, never resells model usage and adds no markup.
Do we need to buy AI credits?
No. Connect an API key, a subscription that permits use with Archon or a model on your Mac. Your provider bills you directly. Archon adds no markup. Cloud usage limits will be published before paid plans begin.
Does our code go to an AI provider?
Only what each task needs, and only to the provider you connect. Or run models on your Mac, with Ollama or LM Studio.
Data and privacy
Where does our data live?
A local workspace stays on your Mac. Online workspaces are hosted on our servers, or on yours by arrangement. Connected AI providers receive the information needed for each task.
Who can see what?
Each workspace is its own privacy boundary. Each person's Archon reads only what that person can, and rooms keep their own permissions.
Can we take our data out?
Yes. A workspace's owner can export it at any time.
Does my data leave my Mac?
A workspace on your Mac stays on your Mac. The AI provider you connect receives what each task needs.
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