Your first hour
Your installation arrives with one assistant in it, no AI account connected and nothing yet learned about you. In this hour you will connect an AI account, set it up, ask it for real work, hand it a file, speak to it, teach it something it must not forget, and put one task on a schedule.
Work straight through in order. Every step ends with what you should see, and nothing here is hard to undo. If you have not read What Player One is, start there.
1. Connect an AI account
The first thing your installation asks for is an AI account, because nothing in it can think until one is connected. Player One works with a wide range of AI providers, and you can switch between them from a dropdown whenever you like. Press Add provider, pick yours, and either sign in with a subscription you already hold, such as a ChatGPT plan, or paste an API key from the provider's own dashboard.
Two ways of paying exist. A subscription is a flat monthly fee with that provider's own limits. An API key is billed per token: you pay for what you use, with no ceiling and a bill that follows your usage. Tokens, cost and caching weighs them; you can add a second account later on Admin > Providers (/admin/providers).
You should now see one card for the account you connected, naming it and its plan, with a Test button beside it.
2. Answer five short questions
Next you see a single conversation filling the page, with no menus around it. It greets you and asks what language you would like to talk in.
Answer that, then the four that follow: what it should call you, whether you would rather call it something other than Player One, how technical you want its replies, and which of three sample replies sounds most like you. One at a time, three minutes in all.
Do not give it work yet: almost nothing is switched on, and it will park any task until setup is finished.
You should now see a message reading "Right, you're in", with the full app around that same conversation: navigation down the left, your chat in the middle.
3. Finish the welcome
Its next question is whether to assign certain models to certain tasks, which speeds work up and saves tokens. Say yes and it walks you through it, asking before it changes anything. Say no and it moves on without asking again.
Then it asks whether you would rather tell it about yourself or about your business. Spend a few minutes there: it is the first real thing it will know about you.
You should now see an ordinary conversation at the top of your recent chats. It stays there, so you can scroll back to it all hour.
4. Ask for something real
Start a fresh conversation with New chat (/) and keep the rest of the hour in it. Ask for something you would have to write today: draft a short note to my accountant explaining what we do.
Under the reply you should see which model produced it, and how many tokens it used in and out.
5. Give it a file
Click the paperclip in the message box, attach something you already have, and ask it to summarise the file in five bullets and turn that into a one-page brief.
You should now see the preview pane open to the right of the chat with the brief in it, updating as it is written. The file itself is filed under Manage > Files (/workspaces).
6. Speak to it
Press the microphone in the message box, say a sentence and stop: your recording appears in the conversation and is transcribed while you watch. The phone button beside it starts a live call, where you can interrupt mid-sentence as you would with a person. Live calls are experimental and show a notice the first time you use one.
Voice messages are transcribed from the start by Player One Provider, which comes included. A live call needs a speech service connected first; if none is, Player One says what it needs, and that setup happens once.
You should now see your spoken words in the thread as an ordinary message, with the reply beneath them.
7. Teach it one thing
Tell it something it will need again, and say it should remember: our invoices go out on the 25th, or never write to a client before I have seen the draft.
You should now see that note listed under Manage > Memories (/manage/memories), without refreshing the page.
8. Schedule one small thing
Ask for something small and daily: every weekday at 8am, summarise what is outstanding and put it in this chat. Give it your time zone if it asks.
Keep it daily rather than hourly. A scheduled task spends tokens every time it runs and keeps running until you turn it off.
Ask for the answer in this chat rather than as a reminder: the browser does not notify you. To be nudged somewhere you will notice, connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack or email first.
You should now see the task under Automations > Scheduled (/cron), with the time of its next run.
9. Look around
Open Dashboard (/dashboard): what is running, which agents have been busy, and the page to return to when you want to know what happened overnight.
Then open Admin > Usage (/admin/usage), which shows where your spend has gone today, this week and this month.
Where to go next
You now have an assistant that runs on an account you control, knows how you want to be spoken to, has read a file, heard your voice, remembered something about your business, and does one job every morning without being asked.
What Player One can do walks through each kind of thing you can ask for, with examples.
Working with Player One covers the habits that make it better: when to start a new chat, what a token costs, and how to teach it something so it sticks.
Meet the parts explains each piece you met this hour, including voice, memory and the preview pane.