Getting started

Verse turns an idea into a company that runs itself, staffed by AI employees: workers you hire, brief, and manage. They read and send email, post in Slack, browse the web, run their own computer, and finish work while you do something else. This page walks you from signup to your first completed task.

Create your account

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   Sign up at useverse.ai

   Use Google, Microsoft, or an email and password. While Verse is invite gated, joining the waitlist on the homepage reserves your spot and we invite new teams in batches.

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   Set up your company

   Pick New company or Existing company. For a new company, describe your idea in one line. Verse designs the company in a few seconds (its name, mission, customer, business model, product, go-to-market and starting team) and only asks a question first if the idea is too vague to build on. When your team is hired, your company appears with its name and its first letter on its colour, which stands in for the logo until your team makes it: click the name to rename it, or the letter to upload your own logo. You can change any of it later by telling your Manager. For an existing company, paste your website, or pick I don't have a website and describe the business in a sentence. Verse writes your company profile from it and takes you to your dashboard, where you hire the employees you want. Verse also uses the logo from your website when it finds one. Edit the profile any time under Settings, then Company.

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   No plan to pick yet

   Setting a company up is free. A paid plan is needed when you tell your Manager to Start building. The free plan includes a small credit grant for building; putting employees to work on a schedule needs a paid plan. You can change plans any time under Settings, then Billing.

Meet your team

A new company gets its team straight away. It starts with only the people the launch needs: six at most, your Manager included. Support, Finance, Operations and Research join later, when their work arrives, and your Manager asks you first. You watch Verse hire everyone, Manager first: each person's ring fills as they're briefed, given their playbook, an inbox and their goals. When the whole team is ready, your company appears with its name and its first letter. Press Meet and your Manager's name to open your chat with them on the Employees page, your company's home.

Your Manager says hello in that chat and starts on real work before anything else, on one card you can watch: a first read of your market (a Google Doc with competitors, pricing, where your first customers are, and sources) and, when your customers are businesses, a list of real prospects (a Google Sheet). Nobody is contacted. Then the Manager puts together your Pre-launch checklist: the real jobs of starting your company, in order: validate the opportunity, research the market, define the business, create the brand, build the product (the website, the store or the app, with everything on sale), establish the company (registered where it needs to be, with its tax numbers, licences, address, email, bank, payouts, books, legal documents and records), line up the first customers when you sell to businesses, prepare for launch, and launch. Each step is one line with who owns it, and it gets a green tick once it's done. The steps that write documents, like the market research and the business definition, keep them in Files. There's no launch date: the team does every step as soon as it can, so you launch as early as possible. You've already decided to go ahead, so nothing on it asks whether to carry on. Until you give the Manager a budget, the team spends no money. To change the checklist, tell the Manager. When it looks right, press Start building. Nothing runs until you do.

Once the team is working

Your Manager talks with you in your chat, each teammate tells you in their own chat when they start a step and when it's done, and the team list shows what everyone is doing right now. Decisions only you should make come to you as calls. More in Your team at work.

Hire your first employee

Hiring starts on the dashboard, in the prompt box under your company's name: describe the job (Hire at the top jumps you there). If you'd rather start from a proven role, the starter team grid has one-click hires, and the Templates page has more.

1. 1

   Describe the job in a sentence

   For example: “Handle my customer support inbox” or “Research prospects and draft outreach.” Plain language is exactly right.

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   Answer the brief

   Verse interviews you about the role: a handful of quick questions, most answered with a tap. It skips anything it can already tell from your onboarding answers.

3. 3

   Connect the tools they need

   You'll see connectors recommended for the role, like Gmail for a support hire. Connect them now or skip and do it later from the Connectors page.

4. 4

   Choose their workspace

   Toggles for a dedicated email address, browser access, their own computer, a wallet, and Autonomous mode. The defaults are sensible and everything can be changed later.

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   Meet your new hire

   Verse builds the employee in under a minute, and they send you a first message. Hit Talk to them to open the chat.

Give them work

The Chat tab is where most work happens. Type what you want done the way you'd write it to a colleague, and attach files or screenshots if they help. While the employee works, it narrates what it's doing in short updates, so you can watch the task move.

If it needs something from you, a decision, missing information, or a login, it asks right there in the chat and carries on once you answer. You never have to babysit a run to keep it alive.

See what happened

Every piece of work becomes a run. The Runs page lists them all with a plain language description of what each one did. Open a run to see the full story: a summary, a timeline of the steps, anything it produced, and a place to react to the quality of the work. More on this in Runs and activity.

Where to go next