# Getting started

> What Alaskan is, the two ways to use it (on your own iPhone, or as a team for a company), and the first ten minutes with Alaskan for Business.

Canonical: https://alaskanlabs.com/docs/getting-started

Alaskan Labs makes **Alaskan**: AI agents you talk to like people, each one shown as an Alaskan dog. We call the agents Alaskans.

There are two ways to use it.

- **For yourself, on iPhone.** Your own Alaskan lives in the iPhone app. It answers in a few sentences, looks things up, and runs the jobs you give it. Each job is an Alaskan too, added with a 4-digit code. See [Alaskans on iPhone](/docs/alaskans-on-iphone).
- **For a company: Alaskan for Business.** A team of AI dogs with jobs (inbox, outbound, recruiting, finance, support, the website), led by a chief of staff. It runs in the browser at [alaskan.ai](https://alaskan.ai), and the same iPhone app works with it. See [Alaskan for Business](/docs/business).

## Your first ten minutes with Alaskan for Business

1. **Sign up** at [alaskan.ai/signup](https://alaskan.ai/signup) with your work email. We email you a link and a 6-digit code to sign in; there's no password and no phone needed.
2. **Create the workspace from a team template.** The [Starter team](/teams/starter) has seven dogs led by Sitka, an Alaskan Malamute; there are templates for a [dental clinic front desk](/teams/dental-clinic) and an [agency outbound team](/teams/agency-outbound). The workspace comes with the template's dogs, its workflows and sample work, marked as sample, so it looks alive on day one. It starts as a trial.
3. **Let the team work, and check Today.** The dogs get on with their jobs. Today says how many things need you and what was done since yesterday. Start opens them in Decide, one card at a time: press a number to choose, or R to answer in your own words. See [Decide](/docs/decide).
4. **Set the rules.** Each dog has three lists: **Just do**, **Ask first** and **Never**. Rules are plain sentences; what a dog may just do, it does without asking. See [Rules](/docs/rules).
5. **Read the Ledger,** in Records. Every decision is on the record: what the dog proposed, who chose (you, or which rule), why, and how it turned out. See [The Ledger](/docs/ledger).
6. **Bring your iPhone, if you like.** In the workspace's menu, choose **Use it on your iPhone**: the browser shows a code like `ABCD-2345` and a QR code. On the iPhone, open Alaskan, go to Settings → Alaskan on the web → Link a browser, and type it. Your iPhone joins the workspace as a member, with a pinned Decide chat and the team as chats. A code lasts 10 minutes and works once.

Started on the Alaskan iPhone app? You can sign a browser in as your phone instead: the browser shows a code, and you type it on the phone the same way.

## What works today, and what comes next

Version 1 is honest about its edges.

**Works today:** signing up and in on the web with an email; bringing an iPhone into a workspace with a code; signing a browser in as a phone; a workspace with its starting team and sample work; chatting with each dog; Decide on the web and on the phone, with undo; the Ledger with outcomes and CSV export; rules per dog; workflows installed from templates and run by hand, with their Decide steps.

**Comes next:** dogs operating the company computer's browser on their own; carrying out what you approve in a chat (today it's recorded in the Ledger, and only a workflow's app steps act); routines and workflow schedules firing on their own (they're stored, and shown with their next time); more than one workspace per person; inviting people by email; each dog's own email address and phone number.

## Where things live

- The app: [alaskan.ai](https://alaskan.ai), in the browser, and the Alaskan app on iPhone.
- This site: the [Alaskans](/alaskans), [team templates](/teams), [workflow templates](/workflows), these docs and the [blog](/blog).
- For agents: [llms.txt](/llms.txt), and every page here as Markdown (add `.md` to the address). See [For AI agents](/docs/for-ai-agents).