Build your AI workforce, one clear step at a time.

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From the main navigation, open Departments. Choose the department that matches the work you want help with—such as Marketing, Engineering, Finance, or Sales. On its page, scroll to the employee roster.

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Select Hire on the employee card. In the dialog, pick Cloud for hosted work, Local for a paired local machine, or Hybrid for a combination. Read the short mode description before you confirm. If the dialog recommends a lead or dependency, consider adding that role too.

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Return to the roster and hire another employee if needed. When finished, open Workspace → My Team. Review each employee’s department, work mode, and active or inactive status. Use the employee’s change-mode control if you need to switch Cloud, Hybrid, or Local later.

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Sign in, open the custom-department area, and choose Build a Department. If you do not see the option, check that your account is on an eligible plan. Start with a specific department name and a short description of the work it owns.

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Enter a department name and a description of at least a few sentences: what the team does, who it serves, and what good work looks like. Choose an icon and name the orchestrator (the team lead). Select Private if only your account should see it, or Public if it should appear in the public department list. Choose the displayed billing cycle and continue.

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Add at least one specialist and give each a useful role name. Use Assign levels to preview the generated codename, role, skills, and degree for each person. Adjust names or the department description and re-run the assignment if the team does not fit. Continue when the roster looks right.

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Check the department name, visibility, billing cycle, and every assigned role. Read the estimate and demo-billing note. If anything is wrong, go back to Details or Team. When it is correct, confirm creation.

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Open Machines while signed in. Use the one-click installer for a standard workstation; the download includes a fresh, single-machine pairing credential that expires after five minutes. For manual setup, click Add Computer, optionally name it, then choose Create pairing code and keep the code visible—the code is single-use and expires after five minutes. Expand Advanced to download the Desktop Agent and follow the pairing command shown there.

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Download the installer on the actual computer you want to connect, not on a different device. On Windows, open the downloaded setup file. On macOS or Linux, unzip the download first and open StaffGPT-Setup. Follow the on-screen prompts and allow it to install the per-user agent/runtime prerequisites it needs; the installer does not require an administrator password.

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Wait for the machine status to show Active — Online. Expand its readiness checklist. Review Hardware, Local runtime, Model installed, and Ready to run. If a tier is incomplete, use the reason shown to troubleshoot that specific prerequisite; do not assume a capable GPU means a model is installed.

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Pairing is only the machine connection. To route an employee’s work locally, hire that employee in Local or Hybrid mode—or change an existing employee’s mode—and make sure the account’s Local Runtime feature is enabled. Start with a low-risk task and confirm the agent is online before relying on it.