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You need a Claude plan (for Claude Code) or a ChatGPT plan (for Codex). Brigade runs your teammates on the plan you already pay for and never bills you for AI usage. Max or Pro gives the most room.
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Create your account

Go to brigade.lol/sign-up and choose Continue with Google, or enter your name and email and choose Email me a code. The code works for 10 minutes. There is no password to remember.
2

Name what you are building

Onboarding asks What are you building? Enter a project name and choose Continue. This creates your workspace: its teammates, threads, files and memory are kept apart from any other workspace you make later.
3

Tailor Brigade to you

Four quick questions follow, one at a time: your role, your team’s size, what your team should take on first, and how you heard about Brigade. Tap an answer to move on, or choose Skip. What you say about yourself goes into your first message to Chief, so it suggests teammates that fit your work.
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Give your teammates a computer

Teammates work on a computer, with the real Claude Code or Codex. Pick one or both:
  • Brigade Cloud ($99 a month per workspace): a computer of their own that keeps working when yours is off. Choose Get Brigade Cloud; it is ready in a few minutes.
  • Your own computer (free): on a Mac, choose Download Brigade for Mac, open it, then Open in Brigade. On Linux, or on a Mac from a terminal, run the install command shown on the page.
See Your computer or Brigade Cloud to choose.
5

Connect your AI account

Once the computer is online, choose Sign in with Claude or Sign in with ChatGPT (Codex). You sign in on the vendor’s own page; Brigade never sees your password.
  • Claude: choose Open Claude sign-in, sign in, then paste the code Claude shows you and choose Finish.
  • Codex: open the address shown and enter the code.
On your own computer, a claude or codex login you already have in the terminal shows up by itself.
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Meet Chief

Every workspace starts with a teammate called Chief. Your first thread with Chief opens by itself: tell it what your business does and what takes your time. Chief proposes a team, with the Apps each teammate needs, and creates it when you choose Create team. Teammates created this way ask you before each write to an App; change that on each teammate’s Access tab.

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Your first piece of work

Open a teammate and write to it in a thread, the way you would to a new hire:
Sort this week’s support email and draft answers to the questions our docs already cover.
The thread shows everything the teammate does, step by step: what it read, ran and changed. When it needs you (an approval, a question, an account it can’t reach), the thread shows up under Needs you in the sidebar and in Needs you on Today, and you get a push on your phone if you turned them on. The line under the greeting on Today sums up the day: who is working, how many things need you, and how much the team finished today (a link to the Board).
Install the dashboard on your phone (Share → Add to Home Screen on iPhone, iOS 16.4 or later) to get a push when a teammate needs you. Choose which pushes you get in Settings → Preferences → Notifications.

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Create a teammate yourself

In the sidebar’s Teammates section, choose New teammate (owners and admins). Give it:
  • a Name and a Title, shown as a badge beside its name,
  • Role instructions: its job, in your words,
  • a Model: Claude Code (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku…) or Codex.
Then, on the teammate’s Access tab, choose the Apps and secrets it may use, and what it may do without asking. On Limits, set daily caps on the threads it starts, its computer hours and its writes to each App.

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Next steps

Connect Apps

Gmail, GitHub, Stripe, Notion and more.

Add more AI accounts

Stack several accounts: when one runs out, the thread carries on with the next.