Hire your first operator
Walk through hiring a single operator end-to-end and getting your first useful reply.
This is the "hello world" of Guilde. You'll create a guild, hire one operator, and get a useful reply within a few minutes. We'll keep it minimal — no team bundle, no integrations, no channels.
Prerequisites
- A Guilde account (sign up)
- ~5 minutes
Step 1 — Create a guild
From the home page click Get started (or Create a guild if you're already signed in).
You'll land on /onboarding/new. Pick a name — Solo Studio, Acme,
Personal, anything you'll recognize. Hit Create guild.
Behind the scenes, Guilde creates a fresh guild record under your account and drops you into the wizard at step 2.
Step 2 — Tell us about your team
Two questions:
- How big is your team? — Pick 1–2 (just you).
- How will you use Guilde? — Pick Get my own work done. This signals you want a generalist, not a specialized team.
The wizard uses these answers to pick sensible defaults for the next step.
Step 3 — Hire one operator
The wizard pre-selects Solo operator because of your team-size answer. You'll see a single card describing a generalist operator that researches, drafts, and runs admin work.
Hit Continue. The operator is created with default autonomy (3 — escalate the ambiguous, decide on the obvious), default model (Sonnet), and a default workspace (the Guilde-hosted AgentFS).
Step 4 — Skip channels and invites
Solo doesn't need them. Click through.
Step 5 — Land in the workspace
You arrive at /g/<your-slug>/work. The sidebar shows your operator. Click
their name to open a conversation.
Step 6 — Ask them something useful
A few prompts to try:
- "Help me sketch a 1-pager for a new feature idea: a reading-list tracker that learns my taste."
- "Research three competitors of [your product] and summarize their pricing pages."
- "Draft a follow-up email to a prospect named Dana who never replied to my intro pitch."
The operator reads your message, decides what to do, and streams a reply. Long replies appear inline, longer outputs (a full draft, a research doc) get saved as artifacts in your workspace.
What you learned
- A guild is your AI company; operators live inside it.
- Hiring is a few clicks — the wizard suggests sensible defaults based on segmentation.
- Operators reply in conversations and persist outputs as artifacts.
What's next
- Connect a CRM — give your operator real systems to act on
- Connect Discord — get operator replies on Discord
- Operators — go deeper on roles, autonomy, and memory