Getting Started

First question, no wrong answers. Pick one of four categories — Create Something New, Grow Your Business, Plan a Project, or Make an Impact — and then a specific type within it. Launching a startup, running a hackathon, improving team morale, organizing an event, tracking personal goals, shipping open source — there are 18 different types, each with its own tailored flow. Your choice shapes everything that follows: which steps appear, the questions Solmyr asks, the detail it expects, and the plan it builds. Pick the closest fit. It's not a blood oath — you can change categories later in settings.

This is the big one. Describe what you're building, dreaming about, or running — in as much or as little detail as you want. A single sentence works. A three-paragraph manifesto also works. You can add a project or company name (we'll suggest one based on your description), attach documents, or drop files anywhere on the screen. The form itself adapts to your category: a hackathon gets a minimal "biggest challenge + goals" prompt, while a scaling business gets the full treatment with financials, customers, and background. If you picked Scale Your Business or Streamline Operations, this step becomes a full business research session where Solmyr goes and actually investigates your business online. It's mildly unsettling how thorough it is.

Revenue? Impact? Freedom? Creativity? Growth? Stability? Pick the values that resonate. These aren't decorative — they genuinely shape how Solmyr prioritizes decisions and plans. If you care about community impact more than revenue, the AI won't keep pushing you toward monetization. If freedom matters most, it won't suggest hiring a team of 20. Only shown for categories where values meaningfully affect the plan — skipped for things like hackathons or learning projects where it's overkill.

Local bakery in Portland? National SaaS? Global domination? The market scope changes everything — from competitor research to pricing strategy to the regulatory landscape Solmyr considers. If you're already operating somewhere, you can also tell it where you want to grow. It files that under "ambitions" and factors it into long-term planning. Only shown for business-focused categories where market scope actually matters.

Budget, team size, hours per week, and experience levels. The experience categories adapt to what you're doing — "Business" for ventures, "Product" for open source, "Education" for programs, "Organizing" for nonprofits. All optional, all helpful. This is where Solmyr stops being a generic advice machine and starts being genuinely useful — because it won't suggest a $50k marketing campaign when your budget is "whatever's in my savings account."

Dedicated time specification, because "just list it as a constraint" was never intuitive. The input adapts to your category: hackathons and school projects get a hard deadline picker with an urgency badge, campaigns get a duration selector with presets, ongoing initiatives get a check-in cadence, and long-term plans get a planning horizon. Skip it if your project is open-ended — but if there's a real deadline, putting it here means every plan, phase, and task the AI generates will actually fit into the time you have.

No paid advertising. No investors. Can't work weekends. Won't use AWS. Allergic to cold calling. Whatever your non-negotiables are, put them here. Solmyr will respect these boundaries throughout every plan, task, and recommendation it creates. Think of it as the AI's "do not cross" line. We built this because we kept getting suggestions we'd explicitly said we didn't want. Problem solved.

The practical stuff. Choose between platform credits (we handle the AI billing) or bring your own API key if you're that kind of person. Pick your AI provider — Anthropic or OpenAI — select a model, and set the activity level. Conservative means the AI asks before doing anything. Aggressive means it goes full autopilot on routine stuff. Balanced is... balanced. Most people start there.

Got existing tools? Connect them via MCP (Model Context Protocol). The agent discovers what's available and weaves external tools into its reasoning — GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack, or any MCP-compatible endpoint. Available for every category (yes, even hackathons and personal goals), because having access to your toolbox is always useful. You can always add more later from settings.

Here's where it gets interesting. Based on everything you've told it, Solmyr generates three distinct strategic roadmaps — complete with phases, milestones, focus areas, and reasoning for each approach. They're genuinely different strategies, not three variations of the same thing. Pick the one that resonates. Don't love any of them? Tell it what to change and regenerate. It's patient. More patient than most co-founders.

Last step. Add your co-founder, your team, your roommate who said they'd help — whoever should have access. You can set roles (member or admin), and they'll get an invite link. Every person shares the same AI context, the same workspaces, the same plan. Fully isolated per company though, so your side project and your day job don't cross-contaminate. Skip this if you're going solo. No judgment.