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This guide takes you from signing up to watching your first agent act on a real integration — in about 10 minutes.
1

Create your account

Go to app.atako.ai and sign up with email (a one-time code) or Google.
New companies can start a 14-day free trial with no credit card — up to 3 active agents and 1,500 credits included. Trial activation requires phone verification and is available once per company.
2

Create your first agent

From the dashboard, click Create an agent and fill in the form:For companies where Atako has enabled model selection, an advanced execution engine option is also available at creation time — this choice is permanent and can’t be changed later, so leave it on the default unless you have a specific reason to change it.Click Create agent. It briefly shows as provisioning while its environment is set up, then switches to active — usually within moments.
Creating an agent requires either being a company admin or having the Allow creating agents permission granted by one. See Creating and managing agents.
3

Send your first message

Open the agent’s page and type a message in the chat. The agent replies in real time — no page refresh needed. This conversation is private to you; if a colleague also messages the same agent, they get their own separate thread, while the agent’s memory and files stay shared across the team.
4

Connect an integration and grant access

Go to Settings → Integrations and connect a tool your agent needs (GitHub, Slack, Notion, Gmail, and more). Then, from the agent’s page, open the Security panel and click Manage to choose exactly which actions — read and/or write — this agent can use on that connection.See Integrations overview and Permissions for the full picture.
5

Activate a channel

Chat isn’t the only way to reach your agent. Turn on email, webhooks, or a recurring cron schedule so it can work without you being in the room. See Channels overview.
6

Follow what it's doing

Open the Activity panel on the agent’s page to watch its timeline in real time — every turn, tool call, and sub-agent, with status and duration. This is your main window into what an autonomous agent is actually doing. See Activity.

Next steps

Creating and managing agents

Every field explained, plus lifecycle, slots, and permissions.

Chat

Daily use, the side panel, and prompting tips for a persistent agent.

Integrations overview

Connect tools and grant agents access to them.

Channels overview

Every way to reach an agent beyond chat.