What you prepare

Strictly speaking: nothing. Everything on this page we go through together with you at the setup appointment — it's included, there is no setup fee. Anything you take care of beforehand shortens the appointment. How far you go is up to you.

1. If you do nothing We do it together. You join the appointment, we share the screen and go through every step together. You see every click — and afterwards you know where everything lives.
2. Our suggestion Create the accounts ahead of time. Half an hour, no more than that: just the sign-ups with Telegram, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, Groq, and Google. Those are forms nobody can fill in for you — the keys we then fetch together in two minutes. Of everything you can do beforehand, this part saves the most time at the appointment.
3. If you prepare everything All that's left at the appointment is putting it in. You work through the pages below and bring your tokens, keys, and IDs with you. Then your Companion is ready to go in a few minutes instead of an hour.

Step by step, no jargon — each part takes only a few minutes and shows every click as a sketch. What you set up, you then hand over to your advisor or enter together with your Companion.

The chat

• Connect Telegram Your Companion gets its own Telegram number — Bot-Token and Chat-ID in a few minutes.
• Connect Signal Prefer Signal to Telegram? Your Companion gets a Signal account of its own — what you need for it and how it works.

The thinking

• Connect OpenRouter One account, one key — access to hundreds of AI models, with full cost control.

The voice — three parts

• Part 1 Your Companion gets a voice Create the free ElevenLabs account — the first step towards natural speech output.
• Part 2 The key for the voice Create the API key — deliberately with only the one permission that is needed.
• Part 3 Find the right voice Listen to voices, pick one, and copy the Voice-ID — the nicest part saved for last.

The understanding

• The key for understanding So your Companion understands spoken messages: the Groq key for speech recognition.

The calendar — you only need ONE of the two routes

• Connect Apple Calendar Create the app-specific password that lets your Companion read and add appointments in iCloud — no Google account needed.
• Connect Google Calendar Create the key file that lets your Companion read and add appointments.

Every page can also be printed — the fold-outs open by themselves when you do. And if you get stuck anywhere: your advisor will set all of this up together with you.