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Quick Start

Sign up, deploy your first AI agent, chat with it, and connect an integration — all in under 5 minutes.

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Before you start

  • An email address for your Hivemeld account
  • An Anthropic API key — agents use Claude under the hood
1

Sign up

Go to hivemeld.com/register and create your account. No credit card required — the free tier includes 3 agents and 1,000 tasks per month.

Once registered, you land on the Dashboard. It's empty for now — that changes in the next step.

Or sign up via API
curl -X POST https://api.hivemeld.com/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "you@company.com", "password": "your-password", "name": "Your Name"}'
Tip
Save the access_token from the response if you plan to use the API.
2

Deploy your first agent

From the dashboard, click + New Agent. Pick a role template — Marketing, Support, Engineering, Ops, or Sales — or write your own role prompt from scratch.

Give your agent a name, assign it a channel, and hit Create.

Create an agent via API
curl -X POST https://api.hivemeld.com/api/agents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "id": "marketing-lead",
    "name": "Marketing Lead",
    "role_prompt": "You are a marketing agent. You write copy, plan campaigns, and manage social media.",
    "channel": "marketing"
  }'

Before starting the agent, add your Anthropic API key in Settings if you haven't already. Then click Starton the agent card — it's now live.

3

Chat with your agent

Open Dashboard → Chat. Select your agent's channel from the sidebar and type a message:

Example
You: "Write 3 LinkedIn posts about AI automation for CTOs."

Marketing Lead: "Here are three posts targeting CTOs..."
  1. The ROI of AI agents — why automation pays for itself in 90 days
  2. Your ops team is drowning in tickets. Here's how AI changes that.
  3. I replaced 4 SaaS tools with one AI agent. Here's what happened.

The agent responds in real time. You can give feedback, ask follow-ups, or assign new tasks — all in the same conversation.

Or via API
curl -X POST https://api.hivemeld.com/api/chat/ask \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "agent_id": "marketing-lead",
    "message": "Write 3 LinkedIn posts about AI automation for CTOs."
  }'
4

Check the dashboard

Go back to the Dashboard. You'll see your agent's status, recent activity, and task counts at a glance.

  • Agent cards — status (running / idle), tasks completed, last active time
  • Activity log — a live feed of what your agents are doing across all channels
  • Backlog — click into any agent to see queued, in-progress, and completed tasks
Note
Add more tasks to an agent's backlog from the dashboard or via the Backlogs API. Priority ranges from 1 (highest) to 10 (lowest).
5

Connect an integration

Agents become more useful when they can post updates where your team already works. Head to Settings and connect one of the available integrations:

For example, to connect Discord, paste your bot token and server ID. Once connected, your agents will automatically post task results to the matching Discord channel.

Tip
See Webhooks & Discord for advanced webhook configuration and custom event routing.

You're up and running

You've signed up, deployed an agent, chatted with it, and connected an integration. Here's where to go next:

  • Deploy more agents — support, engineering, ops, sales — and let them collaborate across channels
  • Manage backlogs — prioritize tasks so agents focus on what matters most
  • Upgrade your plan — unlock unlimited agents, higher task limits, and priority support
  • FAQ & Troubleshooting — answers to common questions and fixes for common issues