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Quick Start

Create your BotHound account and build your first bot in a few minutes.

Step 1: Create your account

Sign up at app.bothound.ai. New accounts come with 1,000 free credits so you can try a handful of runs before adding a payment method. Each active task in a bot costs 50 credits per run, so a 1-task bot costs 50 credits per run and a 5-task bot costs 250 credits per run.

Step 2: Create your bot

From the dashboard, click New Bot and fill in the basics:

  1. Name. A short label for the bot, for example “Morning AI Briefing”.
  2. Soul. A short description of who the bot is and what it is for. This is the text that sits above every task. A good first pass might be: “You are a research assistant who produces a concise daily briefing on the AI industry. Be factual, skip hype, and prioritise items that matter to a product team.”

Click Create and you will land on the bot’s task canvas.

Step 3: Add a task

On the task canvas, click Add Task:

  1. Name the task, for example “Gather today’s AI news”.
  2. Prompt the task with what it should do: “Find the five most important AI news items from the past 24 hours. Return each with a one-sentence summary and the source URL.”
  3. Attach the WebSearch tool so the task can actually search the web.

Save the task. It will appear in the first stage of the plan.

Step 4: Run the bot

Click Run. Optionally add input data or upload a file to pass into the run. Confirm the credit cost and kick it off. You will see the run move through queued, running, and completed statuses. When it is done, open the run to see the output and any errors.

Step 5: Put it on a schedule

Once you are happy with the output, click Schedule from the bot page. Pick Recurring, set the frequency to daily at the time you want it to run, choose your timezone, and save. The bot will now run itself every day and you can check the output whenever you want.

What is next

What is BotHound? Creating a Bot