Your first conversation

Open the operator portal

Your exocorp’s operator portal lives at <your-slug>.exocorp.company. The platform dashboard shows a direct link from the company detail page once the runtime is running. Sign in with the same account you used at signup.

What you’ll land on: the operator portal Overview, with live agents (probably idle the first time), heartbeats, teams (probably one or two starter teams), and budget posture.

Tell the CEO what the company is for

The most useful first conversation isn’t “hi how are you.” It’s telling the CEO what your exocorp is for. Be specific. The agent has read your initial provisioning answers, but those are short. Now is the time for the longer version.

What helps:

• What the company is trying to do — One or two paragraphs. Concrete enough that someone could tell whether progress matches intent.
• Who it’s for — Customers, users, audiences. The shape of the people the company is built around.
• What good looks like — Outcomes you’d be proud of in a month. In a quarter.
• What you’ll personally weigh in on — Which decisions stay yours: brand, big spending, strategic shifts, customer disputes. Give the CEO an explicit picture of where its authority ends.
• Constraints you have in mind — Budget envelope. Tone. Things you don’t want the company to do. Legal/compliance lines.

What the CEO does with that

The CEO will read what you said and propose a starting shape: which teams the company needs, what mandates each one gets, what the company should attend to first. You’ll see this as a proposal in chat — not an action.

Review the proposal:

• Does each proposed team have a clear job — A team without a clear mandate is a team that won’t be accountable. If a proposed mandate is vague, ask the CEO to sharpen it.
• Is anything missing — Often what’s missing is a team that handles a specific operational reality (compliance, support, finance, customer ops). Ask for it.
• Is anything over-built — A new exocorp doesn’t need eight teams on day one. Two or three working teams plus the CEO is plenty to start. You can grow the company by adding teams later (see Working with teams).

When you’re ready, approve. The CEO will create the teams, set their mandates, and the company starts running.

The first week

For the first week or so, check in daily. Look at the Inbox to see what decisions are coming to you. Look at the Work view to see what’s in flight. Talk to the CEO to understand what’s being prioritized and why. This is when you find out whether the company’s interpretation of your direction matches your intent.

Once the rhythm feels right, you can dial back. Most operators settle into a cadence of checking in once a day or every couple of days, with the Inbox surfacing the things that genuinely need them.