# Sista AI — Guide Documentation Map > Complete guide to hiring, configuring, and managing AI employees on Sista AI. > This file is auto-generated from the guide content. AI agents: fetch individual articles by URL below. ## How to Use This Map 1. Scan the sections below to find the topic you need 2. Fetch the article URL to get the full content (markdown) 3. Articles marked (coming soon) have no content yet ## Get Started Your first steps. - [Quick Start in 5 Minutes](/ai/guide/getting-started/quick-start.md) — Go from zero to your first AI employee conversation in under 5 minutes. - [Navigate Your Workspace](/ai/guide/getting-started/workspace-navigation.md) — Learn the sidebar, tabs, and layout that organize your entire workforce. - [Find Anything in Your Workspace](/ai/guide/getting-started/search.md) — Search pages, people, work, files, and contacts from anywhere in the workspace. - [Browse the Marketplace](/ai/guide/getting-started/marketplace.md) — Explore the AI Employee Marketplace in Sistava to compare pre-built roles, review skills and tools, and hire the right AI employee for your work. - [Try the Free AI Tools](/ai/guide/getting-started/free-tools.md) — Public no-signup mini chats, each a named persona built for one job. - [Learn at the Academy](/ai/guide/getting-started/academy.md) — Self-paced courses, a certification quiz, and live sessions. - [Join Our Community](/ai/guide/getting-started/community.md) — Feedback, Discord, contact, affiliate program, and social media. Everything in one place. - [About Sistava](/ai/guide/getting-started/about.md) — What Sistava is, what you get, and how it works at a high level. ## Hire & Configure Hire, configure, and set up. - [Hire Your Employee](/ai/guide/setup/hire.md) — Browse the marketplace, hire an employee, and get them working. - [Build a Custom Employee](/ai/guide/setup/custom-employee.md) — Create a role around your own skills, duties, tools, routines, and work schedule. - [Hire a Team](/ai/guide/setup/hire-team.md) — Hire a pre-built team or create a custom one with a leader and members. - [Shape Their Persona](/ai/guide/setup/persona.md) — Customize name, tone, style, AI model, and reasoning level. - [Appoint Team Leaders](/ai/guide/setup/leaders.md) — Set a leader who delegates work and coordinates the team. ## Equip Your Employees Skills, playbooks, duties, tools, and training. - [Assign Skills They Master](/ai/guide/equip/skills.md) — Learn how to give AI employees reusable skills for research, writing, analysis, and other repeatable work. - [Understand Workflows and Playbooks](/ai/guide/equip/workflows.md) — Inspect saved workflow stages and understand how playbooks, skills and existing approvals support the work. - [Set Duties They Always Follow](/ai/guide/equip/duties.md) — Define always-on rules that shape every response and action. - [Connect Tools They Use](/ai/guide/equip/tools.md) — Give access to web search, integrations, file generation, and more. - [Knowledge and Sources](/ai/guide/equip/train.md) — Bring approved folders into Drive for free, then use paid Searchable Knowledge only when you choose. ## Assign Work Chat, tasks, and schedules. - [Chat With Your Employee](/ai/guide/work/chat.md) — Send messages, see their thinking, and watch them use tools in real time. - [Create Tasks They Work On](/ai/guide/work/tasks.md) — Create, track, and manage tasks on a kanban board. - [Mention Teammates in Comments](/ai/guide/work/comments.md) — Tag a teammate or employee in the exact task, file, document, sprint, or alert comment. - [Manage Customer Relationships](/ai/guide/work/crm.md) — Keep customer records, deals, and the next action in one shared workspace. - [Schedule Recurring Work](/ai/guide/work/schedule.md) — Set up daily, weekly, or custom schedules for automated execution. - [Plan Work on the Calendar](/ai/guide/work/calendar.md) — See every task, routine, and meeting on one grid, and book a call your employee joins by itself. - [Run Sprints and Work Cycles](/ai/guide/work/sprints.md) — Organize team work into time-boxed sprints with goals and reviews. - [Approve Before They Act](/ai/guide/work/approval.md) — Require your sign-off before employees execute sensitive actions. ## Track Progress Activity, journals, and files. - [Monitor Team Dashboards](/ai/guide/monitor/team-dashboard.md) — See what each team is working on, who is doing it, what it shipped, and what it costs. - [Review Their Activity Log](/ai/guide/monitor/activity.md) — See every action, tool call, and decision in a real-time timeline. - [Review Work With AI Evals](/ai/guide/monitor/quality-officer.md) — Choose what gets reviewed, set the quality standard, and see every score and reason. - [Understand Their Memory](/ai/guide/monitor/memory.md) — Employees remember past conversations and build context over time automatically. - [Read Their Journal](/ai/guide/monitor/journal.md) — Read entries of what employees accomplished, learned, and decided. Personal and team scopes. - [Access Their Drive & Files](/ai/guide/monitor/drive.md) — Browse files, reports, and artifacts each employee has generated. - [Create & Edit Work Files](/ai/guide/monitor/documents.md) — Create and revise Word, Excel, PDF, CSV, PowerPoint, Mermaid diagrams, and saved social drafts from chat. - [Manage Their Status](/ai/guide/monitor/status.md) — Suspend, resume, or terminate employees and manage their lifecycle. ## Run Your Company Dashboard, policies, and org chart. - [View Company Dashboard](/ai/guide/company/dashboard.md) — See your whole business at a glance: what needs you, your return, money, strategy, and people. - [Enforce Policies & Guardrails](/ai/guide/company/policies.md) — Set company-wide rules for content safety, PII handling, and limits. - [Control Information Boundaries](/ai/guide/company/information-boundaries.md) — Keep useful organisation knowledge while protecting private and restricted information. - [Explore the Virtual Office](/ai/guide/company/office.md) — Walk through the 3D office: watch teams work at their desks, socialize, and meet. Click anyone to chat. - [Partner With Sistava](/ai/guide/company/partner-programs.md) — The affiliate program, the reseller program, and the expert directory, kept distinct. - **See the Org Chart** — Visualize the reporting structure across all teams and employees. *(coming soon)* ## Tools & Capabilities What employees use to reach the outside world. - [Search the Web](/ai/guide/capabilities/web-search.md) — Employees can search the web and return summarized results in real time. - [Scrape Any Website](/ai/guide/capabilities/web-scraper.md) — Extract and read content from any public webpage or URL. - [Generate Images](/ai/guide/capabilities/images.md) — Create visuals, diagrams, and graphics using AI image generation. - [Generate Videos](/ai/guide/capabilities/video.md) — Create short videos and animations from a text description using available credits. - [Transcribe Audio and Video](/ai/guide/capabilities/audio-transcriber.md) — Turn uploaded recordings into saved written transcripts. - [Join Live Meetings](/ai/guide/capabilities/meeting-attender.md) — Employees join Meet, Zoom, and Teams calls, listen, transcribe, and speak when addressed by name. - [Connect Thousands of Apps](/ai/guide/capabilities/integrations.md) — Link to Slack, Gmail, Notion, HubSpot, and hundreds more via OAuth. - [Manage an E-commerce Store](/ai/guide/capabilities/ecommerce-management.md) — Connect Shopify, review catalog and stock, compare offers, and approve every store change. - [Create and Publish Social Content](/ai/guide/capabilities/social-content.md) — Create saved posts, choose account approvals, schedule publication and repeat a bounded assignment. - [Add Tools via MCP](/ai/guide/capabilities/mcp-tools.md) — Extend employee capabilities by connecting external MCP tool servers. - [Send Outbound Webhooks](/ai/guide/capabilities/webhook-tools.md) — Let employees notify external systems by posting JSON to any URL. - [Control Your Browser](/ai/guide/capabilities/browser.md) — Let employees navigate, click, and interact with web pages. - [Control Your Computer](/ai/guide/capabilities/computer.md) — Give employees access to your desktop for hands-on automation. ## Inbound Channels How people and systems send work to your employees. - [Turn Channels On and Off](/ai/guide/channels/manage-channels.md) — See every channel and its state, then enable or disable it from Settings or from chat. - [Integrate via REST API](/ai/guide/channels/api.md) — Send prompts and receive responses via HTTP. Curl, Python, or any language. - [Integrate via MCP](/ai/guide/channels/mcp-server.md) — Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client to your employees. - [Trigger via Webhooks](/ai/guide/channels/webhooks.md) — Fire events from your systems and let employees react in the background. - [Embed a Chat Widget](/ai/guide/channels/widget.md) — Drop a chat bubble into any website with a single JS snippet. - [Use the SDK](/ai/guide/channels/sdk.md) — Python and Node libraries that wrap the API for faster integration. - [Chat in the Web App](/ai/guide/channels/web-chat.md) — The primary interface for streaming chat with tools, files, and approvals. - [Talk to Your AI Employee by Voice](/ai/guide/channels/voice.md) — Speak naturally and hear responses with real-time voice conversations. - [Talk to Your AI Employee on Video Call](/ai/guide/channels/video.md) — Planned live video conversations inside the workspace. - [Join a Live Meeting](/ai/guide/channels/meeting.md) — Paste a Meet, Zoom, or Teams link and an employee joins the call to transcribe, answer, and summarize. - [Invite Them via Calendar](/ai/guide/channels/calendar.md) — Add an employee to a calendar event and they accept, auto-join, and summarize the meeting. - [Email a Ready-Made Address](/ai/guide/channels/mailbox.md) — Every employee gets a personal email address from day one. Email it or CC it on any thread, no setup. - [Email Your Employees](/ai/guide/channels/email.md) — Forward emails to employees and get responses back in your inbox. - [Reach Them on Slack](/ai/guide/channels/slack.md) — Mention your AI employees in Slack channels or DM them directly. Replies land in the same thread. - [Reach Them on Discord](/ai/guide/channels/discord.md) — Planned replies in Discord servers and direct messages. - [Message Them on WhatsApp](/ai/guide/channels/whatsapp.md) — Chat with employees through WhatsApp for mobile-first access. - [Reach Them on Telegram](/ai/guide/channels/telegram.md) — DM your AI employee on Telegram or @mention it in a group. Replies land in the same chat, with shared memory. - [Message on Microsoft Teams](/ai/guide/channels/teams.md) — Bring AI employees into your Teams workspace for enterprise collaboration. - [Text Them via SMS](/ai/guide/channels/sms.md) — Send and receive text messages. Works on every phone, no app needed. - [Call Them by Phone](/ai/guide/channels/phone.md) — Dial in and speak with employees over a traditional phone call. - **Watch an RSS Feed** — Monitor any RSS or Atom feed and wake an employee the moment new content arrives. *(coming soon)* ## Credits & Billing Credits, plans, and usage. - [Understand Your Credits](/ai/guide/billing/credits.md) — Learn how credits work, what costs what, and how billing is calculated. - [Top Up Credits Anytime](/ai/guide/billing/top-up.md) — Buy credit packs on demand when you need more capacity. - [Upgrade Your Plan](/ai/guide/billing/plans.md) — Compare the Free tier and paid plan ladder to find your fit. - [Track Your Usage](/ai/guide/billing/usage.md) — Monitor credit consumption by employee, team, and time period. - [Set Your Rate Limits](/ai/guide/billing/limits.md) — Pace how fast your workforce spends credits, and see every other limit that shapes it. - [Save Credits With Cost Optimizer](/ai/guide/billing/operations-officer.md) — See how simple conversation uses a faster lane while real work keeps your selected model. ## Account & Workspace Your workspace, your people, and your preferences. - [Understand Your Workspace Systems](/ai/guide/account/officers.md) — See what every built-in officer does, what you can control, and when it uses credits. - [Explore Your Settings](/ai/guide/account/settings.md) — Walk through every section of the Settings page: subscription, organization, notifications, models, and more. - [Manage Your Profile](/ai/guide/account/profile.md) — Manage email identities, security, preferences, availability, data requests, and profile history. - [Manage Your Workspaces](/ai/guide/account/organization.md) — A workspace is one organization. Create several, and manage collaborators, roles, and seats in each. - [Collaborate Across Workspaces](/ai/guide/account/collaboration.md) — Invite teammates, choose roles, share selected resources, and keep workspace boundaries clear. - [Control Access & Share Resources](/ai/guide/account/sharing.md) — Set workspace, restricted, and direct-share access for Drive files and CRM contacts. - [Manage Notifications](/ai/guide/account/notifications.md) — Configure which events trigger alerts and where they get delivered. - [AI Models Settings](/ai/guide/account/models.md) — Choose the workspace model, work behavior, and delegation settings. - [Export Your Data](/ai/guide/account/export.md) — Download your conversations, activity, tasks, and execution detail. Full account export coming soon. - [Understand Conversation Monitor](/ai/guide/account/experience-officer.md) — See direct reply feedback and possible unresolved follow-ups without changing the conversation. - [Keep Work Moving With System Health](/ai/guide/account/health-officer.md) — See what could block workspace progress, who owns the next step, and where to resolve it. - [Share Feedback & Ideas](/ai/guide/account/feedback.md) — Submit feature requests, vote on ideas, report bugs, and join the community. ## Share & Discover Marketplace and templates. - [Get Found by Businesses](/ai/guide/community/b2b-marketplace.md) — Submit your business for review, get discovered, and track marketplace signals. - **Share on the Marketplace** — Publish your custom employees and skills for others to hire. *(coming soon)* - **Clone Templates & Configs** — Start from proven setups. Clone employees, teams, and configurations. *(coming soon)* --- Generated: 2026-09-29 Source: packages/webapp/src/routes/guide/content/index.ts Human-readable guide: /en/guide