Getting Started3 min read

Getting Started with Symbi

A quick introduction to the Symbi platform — sign up, meet your Personal Assistant, and hire your first AI agent.

Welcome to Symbi

Symbi is an HR portal for AI. Your company hires Agents — AI workers that take on specific roles like customer support, sales operations, or accounting — and each person on your team gets a Personal Assistant that helps them with everyday work.

This guide walks you through the first steps.

Sign Up and Log In

Symbi uses Google or Microsoft single sign-on. No passwords — click Log In and sign in with your work account.

The first person from your company to sign in automatically becomes the Owner of the workspace.

The Symbi Workspace

Once signed in, you land in the Symbi workspace. It's a split layout:

  • Left panel — your Personal Assistant chat. This is where you talk to Symbi, ask questions, get help configuring agents, and run quick tasks.
  • Right panel — the main work area. Dashboards, agents, the Operation Center, settings, and everything else.

Across the top is the main navigation: Dashboard, Agents, Operations, Showroom, and Settings.

Tip

Your Personal Assistant is always a click away. You can collapse the chat panel when you need more space, but many teams leave it open and chat with Symbi throughout the day.

Explore the Showroom

The Showroom is where you discover agents you can hire. Each agent is built for a specific role:

  • Customer Support — handles tickets from FreshDesk, Zendesk, Zoho Desk, or email
  • Sales & CRM — keeps HubSpot and sales tools in sync
  • Operations — automates internal workflows like accounting or project management
  • Communication — drafts and sends emails and Slack messages

Browse the Showroom to read each agent's description, see what integrations it needs, and understand the outcomes it delivers.

Hire Your First Agent

When you find an agent that fits, click Hire. The flow is:

  1. Review the agent details — what it does, which integrations it needs, and how it will work
  2. Connect the integrations it needs (e.g., FreshDesk for a support agent)
  3. Configure the agent — name, role, tone, review settings, knowledge base
  4. Activate — the agent starts working on the tasks you assign it

You can always customize an agent after hiring. Tone, review mode, knowledge bases, and behavior can all be tuned from the agent's detail page.

Meet Your Personal Assistant

Your Personal Assistant is configured separately from company agents. It:

  • Helps you navigate and operate Symbi itself (hire agents, review work, change settings)
  • Runs personal tasks on your behalf using your personal integrations (e.g., your Gmail inbox or calendar)
  • Executes Skills — reusable actions you've given it permission to run

See Personal Assistant for a full walkthrough.

Review Mode

Symbi's Human-in-the-Loop review system lets you stay in control. Every agent starts in review mode by default — each action it proposes is held in the Operation Center until someone approves it.

Three modes are available:

  • Always Review — every action is queued for a human
  • Confidence-based (X%) — actions above a confidence threshold are auto-approved; lower-confidence ones are held for review
  • Autonomous — every action is delivered automatically

Start with Always Review while you build trust in the agent. Then move to Confidence-based and raise the threshold as you go. See Operation Center for how reviews work.

What's Next?