Guide
Complete documentation for Sistava, the AI Workforce platform: every feature, every workflow, every concept.
Account
- Share Feedback & Ideas — The feedback panel lets you shape the future of the platform by submitting ideas, voting on features, reporting bugs, and connecting with the community.
- Choose AI Models — The AI Behavior page lets you see every model available on the platform and set the company-wide default that new employees start with, along with other workspace-wide behavior settings.
- Explore Your Settings — The Settings page is your central control panel for subscriptions, organization, notifications, AI models, and more.
Billing
- Understand Your Credits — Credits are the universal currency that powers everything your AI employees do.
- Upgrade Your Plan — import { PERSONALUSD, INDIEUSD, FOUNDERUSD, AGENCYUSD, POWERPACKUSD } from '../../../../shared/constants/pricing';
- Top Up Credits Anytime — Credits are the universal currency that powers everything your AI employees do.
- Track Your Usage — Credits are the universal currency that powers everything your AI employees do.
Capabilities
- Connect A2A Agents — Your employees can delegate tasks to external AI agents using Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol. If another agent exposes an A2A endpoint, your employees can discover its capabilities and send it work
- Control Your Browser — Your employees can navigate websites, fill forms, click buttons, and extract data using a real browser on your computer.
- Control Your Computer — Your employees can control your desktop. Move the mouse, type on the keyboard, manage files, and run terminal commands.
- Generate Images — Your employees can create images from text descriptions. Logos, diagrams, social media graphics, illustrations, and more.
- Connect Thousands of Apps — Your employees can connect to the apps your team already uses, Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, and hundreds more, through secure OAuth.
- Add Tools via MCP — Your employees can connect to any external MCP server and use its tools. This lets you extend what your employees can do without waiting for built-in integrations. If a tool exists as an MCP server,
- Join Live Meetings — Your employees can join Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams calls as a participant. They listen, take a full transcript, answer when addressed by name, and deliver a summary after.
- Generate Videos — Your employees can create short videos from a text description. Social clips, ad concepts, product teasers, and animated moments.
- Scrape Any Website — Your employees can read the full content of any public webpage. Just give them a URL and they'll extract clean, readable text.
- Search the Web — Your employees can search the internet for real-time information. No setup required. It's built in and always available.
- Send Outbound Webhooks — Your employees can POST JSON to any external URL during work. This lets them notify external systems, trigger workflows, or push data to third-party services in real time, without any custom integrati
Channels
- Integrate via A2A — Your AI employees speak Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol. Any external AI agent that supports A2A can discover your employees, send them tasks, and get results back, without going through the web UI
- Integrate via REST API — Your AI employees are accessible via a REST API. Any system that can make HTTP requests can send prompts and receive responses. No SDK needed, just curl or your favorite HTTP client.
- Email Your Employees — Forward emails to your AI employees. They read the sender, subject, and body, then act on it using their full capabilities. Fire-and-forget: you get 202 Accepted immediately, the employee processes th
- Integrate via MCP — Your employees are MCP-compatible servers. Any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol can talk to your employees directly.
- Schedule Recurring Work — Schedules automate recurring work. Set an interval and a prompt, and the employee runs that work on repeat without you asking.
- Reach Them on Slack — Bring your AI employee into the Slack workspace your team already lives in. Mention them, DM them, run /alice, or open the assistant container in the top bar. They reply in the same thread, remember e
- Reach Them on Telegram — Bring your AI employee into Telegram, the app on your phone you already check all day. Message the bot directly or add it to a group and mention it. It replies right there, with the same memory it has
- Talk Using Voice — Talk to your employees out loud. Click the call button in any chat and have a real-time voice conversation, hands-free, no typing needed.
- Chat in the Web App — The web app is the primary way to interact with your employees. Open the workspace, pick an employee or team, and start typing.
- Trigger via Webhooks — Notify your AI employees when something happens in your system. Fire-and-forget: you get 202 Accepted immediately, the employee processes the event in the background using their skills and tools.
Company
- View Company Dashboard — Your AI Company is your complete workforce, all teams and employees working together under one roof with shared policies and a company-wide view.
- Manage Notifications — Notifications keep you informed when important things happen across your AI workforce without needing to check constantly.
- Explore the Virtual Office — See your whole workforce in one living 3D space. Teams sit together in their own rooms, work at their desks, walk around, gather in the meeting room, and hang out in the lounge. Click anyone to jump s
- Enforce Policies & Guardrails — Policies are company-wide safety rules that protect your organization by filtering harmful content, guarding personal information, and preventing data leaks across all employees.
Equip
- Set Duties They Always Follow — Duties are standing responsibilities that an employee upholds on every single interaction, no exceptions.
- Assign Skills They Master — Skills are detailed playbooks that teach an employee how to do a specific type of work, step by step.
- Connect Tools They Use — Tools give employees the ability to take action on real systems. Without tools, employees can only think and write. With tools, they can send emails, search the web, generate images, and connect to yo
- Train With Your Knowledge — Training lets you feed your company's existing knowledge into your employees so they can answer questions and make decisions based on your real data.
Getting Started
- About Sistava — Sistava is where you hire a team of AI employees, onboard them, and bring them in as an extension of your real team. They work together day to day and show up wherever the work happens, in chat, on em
- Join Our Community — Your hub for connecting with Sistava and other users: ask questions, request features, report bugs, get real-time help, and stay in the loop.
- Browse the Marketplace — The Marketplace is where you browse and hire AI teams and employees. Find the right role, click "Hire," and start working.
- Quick Start in 5 Minutes — Get your first AI employee or team working in under 5 minutes.
- Navigate Your Workspace — The Workspace is your daily hub for managing your AI workforce. It is the main screen you see after logging in.
Monitor
- Review Their Activity Log — Every time an employee does something, it gets recorded. The Activity tab is where you see all of it.
- Access Their Drive & Files — The Drive is your employee's file cabinet. Everything they produce, from documents and journal entries to images and drafts, is saved here for you to review.
- Export Your Data — Take your work with you. Download conversations, activity, tasks, and the full execution detail behind any run, in formats you can open anywhere.
- Read Their Journal — Employees keep a structured journal of what they have done, learned, and decided. Personal entries stay private. Team entries are shared with teammates.
- Understand Their Memory — Your AI employees remember past conversations and build up context over time, so they get better the more you work with them.
- Manage Their Status — Control when your employees work by managing their lifecycle state: keep them active, suspend them to pause work, or terminate them to move them to Alumni.
- Monitor Team Dashboards — Every team has a dashboard that shows what it is working on, who is doing it, what it shipped, and what it costs, all with real numbers.
Setup
- Hire a Team — Hire a pre-built team from the Marketplace or build your own. The team leader handles coordination so you talk to one person and the team does the rest.
- Hire Your Employee — Pick a role from the Marketplace and have your new AI employee working in minutes.
- Appoint Team Leaders — The team leader is your single entry point to the team. Talk to the leader, and they handle delegating work to the right specialists.
- Shape Their Persona — Each employee has an identity, personality, and brain you can customize. These settings control who the employee is, how they communicate, and how capable they are.
Work
- Approve Before They Act — Approvals let you stay in control of sensitive actions. When an employee needs your sign-off, they pause, show you a card in the chat, and wait for your decision before continuing.
- Chat With Your Employee — Chat is how you work with your employees. Send a message, watch them think, see them take actions, and get results in real time.
- Schedule Recurring Work — Schedules automate recurring work. Set an interval and a prompt, and the employee runs that work on repeat without you asking.
- Run Sprints and Work Cycles — Sprints organize your team's work into repeating cycles of planning, execution, and review so they deliver results without you micromanaging every task.
- Create Tasks They Work On — Tasks are trackable units of work on a kanban board. Employees create them when doing real work, and you can create them to assign work directly.