> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mithunai.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Your path to a live assistant

> Every step from a first look to a live assistant: try it, get access, connect a source, check citations, go live on web, API or MCP, invite your team.

You go from first look to a live assistant in seven steps: try the public playground, get access, sign in, connect a source, ask and check the citations, put the assistant on your website, API or MCP, and invite your team. After that the same account opens Chat, AI search visibility and AI employees. Your own part takes under an hour; the waits are for a person to set up your access and for your first sync.

Each step below says what you do, what you see when it worked, and roughly how long it takes, and links to the page with the detail. The knowledge product shows the two steps to a first answer as a checklist, **Set up your first answer**, until your assistant can answer.

## Before you have an account

**1. Try the playground**

Ask MITHUNAI's own assistant a question at [play.mithunai.com](https://play.mithunai.com), with no account and nothing kept. It answers only from MITHUNAI's public documentation.

**You see:** an answer with the page it came from, or a plain statement that the documentation does not cover your question. **About 1 minute.**

**2. Get access**

Request access, or accept an invitation from a colleague whose organisation already uses MITHUNAI. There is no instant sign-up: a person sets up each new organisation and its first Owner. To start the conversation, [book a demo](https://www.mithunai.com/demo).

**You see:** an email that lets you sign in, or one that lets you accept your seat and choose a password. **A person reviews each request, so it is not instant.** See [Invitations](https://docs.mithunai.com/administration/invitations.md).

## Your first cited answer

**1. Sign in once**

Sign in at [app.mithunai.com](https://app.mithunai.com/). The same account is your way into every MITHUNAI product; Chat already lets you straight in, and the rest is in beta.

**You see:** Home, with every product on your account and what needs you. Open **Knowledge** to find the **Set up your first answer** checklist. **About 1 minute.** See [Sign in once](https://docs.mithunai.com/platform/sign-in-once.md).

**2. Connect your first source**

In **Sources → Connect source**, add your documentation site, a sitemap, a GitHub repository or a file. Fetching and indexing run in the background; you can leave the page. If a source fails, it says why and offers a re-sync.

**You see:** the source with "N of M documents indexed", then marked ready. **About 2 minutes, then minutes for a small site and longer for a large one.** See [Sources](https://docs.mithunai.com/knowledge/sources.md) and [Ingestion](https://docs.mithunai.com/knowledge/ingestion.md).

**3. Ask and check the citations**

Select **Set up and ask a question** in the checklist. That creates an assistant over your knowledge with the default settings, which you can change later in **Customizations**. Then ask a real question in the **Playground** and open each citation.

**You see:** an answer with numbered sources that open the passage they came from, or "I don't know" when your content does not cover the question. **About 2 minutes.** See [Configure an assistant](https://docs.mithunai.com/assistants/configure.md) and [How answers work](https://docs.mithunai.com/concepts/how-answers-work.md).

## Live, with your team

**1. Put it on your website, API or MCP**

Under **Integrations → Website widget**, enter your website's address, paste one line into your site and select **Check my website**. Or create an API key and call the API from your backend, or connect an AI tool over MCP (beta, read-only).

**You see:** the Ask AI button on your own site. **About 10 minutes.** See [Deploy](https://docs.mithunai.com/channels/overview.md).

**2. Invite your team**

Owners and Administrators invite colleagues from **Settings → Members → Invite by email**, choosing each person's role. Each gets a link, valid once for seven days, to choose their own password.

**You see:** each invitation listed until it is accepted, then the person in **Members**. **About 1 minute a person.** Invitations need your deployment to send email; until it can, the operator creates accounts. See [Invitations](https://docs.mithunai.com/administration/invitations.md).

## Then, with the same account

Once your assistant is live, the console's Dashboard shows **What's next** with a card for each of these that your organisation can use. A card appears only where that product is switched on for you.

> [card] [Chat](https://docs.mithunai.com/chat/getting-started.md)
>
> A chat workspace with your knowledge in every thread: sign in once, switch on Knowledge, and get
> cited answers. Available.

> [card] [AI search visibility](https://docs.mithunai.com/analyze/ai-search-visibility.md)
>
> How AI engines answer your buyers' questions, and who they recommend. Beta, off by default, not
> yet run against a real AI engine.

> [card] [AI employees](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/overview.md)
>
> MITHUNAI Team: Support, IT service desk, DevOps, Marketer, Sales and Finance employees that do
> routine work and ask a person before they act. Beta, off by default.

> [card] [Gateway](https://docs.mithunai.com/gateway/overview.md)
>
> One endpoint in front of your model providers. For platform administrators, and for Owners and
> Administrators where a deployment allows it.

In Chat, start with [Answers from your knowledge](https://docs.mithunai.com/chat/knowledge.md). For AI employees, start with [Approvals](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/approvals.md) and the [approval policy](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/approval-policy.md), then open the employee for your team: [Support](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/support.md), [IT service desk](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/it-service-desk.md), [DevOps](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/devops.md), [Marketer](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/marketer.md), [Sales](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/sales.md) or [Finance](https://docs.mithunai.com/team/finance.md).

MITHUNAI Agents is in beta, with access on request; see [Agents](https://docs.mithunai.com/agents/overview.md). [Product status](https://docs.mithunai.com/resources/product-status.md) lists every capability and its status.

## If a step stalls

| Where you are stuck | What to do |
| - | - |
| You have not heard back about access | Reply to your MITHUNAI contact, or [book a demo](https://www.mithunai.com/demo) |
| You cannot sign in | Use **Forgot password?** on the sign-in screen; see [Password reset](https://docs.mithunai.com/administration/password-reset.md) |
| A source failed to sync | Read the reason on the source, fix it, and re-sync; see [Troubleshooting](https://docs.mithunai.com/resources/troubleshooting.md) |
| The assistant says it does not know | Your content does not cover the question; add it, then re-sync. See [Coverage gaps](https://docs.mithunai.com/analyze/coverage-gaps.md) |
| The invite form is turned off | Your deployment cannot send email yet; ask its operator to set up email |


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