# Getting started

SFCrew AI gives you persistent AI bots. Each one has its own conversations, memory, routines, and
computer, and keeps working on the web, desktop, and mobile apps.

## Set up your team

1. Sign in at [app.sfcrewai.com](https://app.sfcrewai.com), or run your own instance with the
   [self-hosting guide](/docs/self-host/).
2. Pick your trade, service area and typical job size. SFCrew AI creates a marketing and front
   office team that works around the clock: a **Manager** plus **Website**, **Email**,
   **Listing**, **Ads**, **SEO**, **Content**, **Leads & Clients** and **Receptionist**, each with a
   role and instructions for your business. It saves your answers as a **Business profile** note
   in [Shared memory](/docs/memory/). Choose **Skip** to start with an Office Manager alone.
3. The Manager's first chat shows a short **Get connected** list: your website, email, business
   listing, phone number, ad campaigns and chat apps. Each item opens the screen that connects
   it, or the teammate's chat when there is no screen for it yet. Your website's address goes in
   **Settings > Business**: SFCrew AI reads the public site (up to 50 pages, following its
   robots.txt) into a **Website** note in shared memory, reads it again every week, and the
   Website teammate tells you what it learned. Then tell the Manager what you need in plain
   words; it hands work to the right teammate.

More in [Bots and chats](/docs/bots-and-chats/).

## Connect your apps

Bots work in the apps you already use: Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub, and
[1,400+ more](/integrations/). Ask a bot to connect one and approve the sign-in it sends you. See
[Connect apps](/docs/integrations/).

## Give it a schedule

Ask for a routine, such as "every weekday at 8am, summarize my inbox". The bot runs it on its own
computer and reports back in the same chat. See [Routines](/docs/routines/).

## Decide what it can do alone

Choose whether bots ask before acting in [Approvals](/docs/approvals/).

## Bring an agent you already have

Coming from OpenClaw, Hermes or another assistant? [Import it](/docs/import-an-agent/) as a new bot.