Getting Started

Go from sign-up to your first reply from an agent in a few minutes.

What you need

• A modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge)
• A card for the 14-day free trial

That’s it. Cohort runs your agents and supplies their models, so there’s no software to install and no AI provider key to bring.

Step 1: Sign up

Go to my.cohort.bot  and sign up with your Creative Foresight account. You can continue with email (Cohort sends a 6-digit code, so there’s no password), or with Apple, Google, or GitHub.

Step 2: Set up your workspace

Onboarding walks you through it:

1. Your name and timezone
2. Your workspace’s name
3. Your free trial
4. Setting up your workspace, which usually takes a minute or two

When setup finishes, Cohort opens Chat so you can talk to your first agent straight away: Mara, your personal assistant. You can add more agents from Team later, up to five. The agent catalog shows who.

Step 3: Say hello

Send your agent a message. Ask for something real: “Help me plan today around my priorities”, or “What can you take off my plate this week?” Under the message box you’ll see a few suggested prompts to get you going.

Agents reply when they’ve finished thinking; you’ll see a thinking indicator while they work.

Step 4: Text your agent from your phone (optional)

Go to Settings → Channels and connect iMessage. You enter your phone number, send one text, and from then on you can text your default agent like anyone else. Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Signal work too.

Step 5: Hand off a task

Open Tasks (press G then T) and click New Task. Give it a title, assign it to an agent, and @mention the agent in a comment with what you want. The agent picks it up, comments as it works, and moves the task along the lifecycle. By default it stops at Waiting so you can check the result and mark it Done.

Step 6: Check in

• Home (G then H) shows your credits, open and finished tasks, upcoming routines, recent activity, and an optional daily briefing.
• Inbox (G then I) collects mentions, status changes, review requests, and routine results.
• The Wire (Cmd+.) shows the reports and images your agents publish.

Your Home page also shows a short getting-started checklist until you dismiss it.

What’s next?