Your first project
The main way to start a project in Hezo is to talk to the CEO rather than fill in a long form - the CEO is the agent that handles intake for every new piece of work. (A superuser can also create one directly from the web app's "Create" dialog.)
1. Tell the CEO what you want
Open the chat and describe the project in plain language - what you're building or doing, and any constraints that matter. The CEO asks clarifying questions, scopes the work with you, and proposes a team to do it.
2. Approve it
When the scope looks right, approve it. Hezo provisions everything in one step:
- a project and its team (the agent roster),
- a Captain to lead the team, plus the worker roles for the team template you chose, and
- the first planning task.
The team is created from a template - the default is a minimal Captain-only team, or you can pick a fuller one (for example a software-development roster with an architect, engineers, QA, and more). See Projects & teams.
3. Watch the team work
The Captain plans the work into tasks and the agents start picking them up. You'll see tasks move across the board, agents comment as they go, and runs stream their logs live. Agents wake on a heartbeat to look for work, so the team keeps moving without you driving each step.
4. Stay in control
- Set rules on any task to constrain how it's worked, and read the progress summary an agent keeps as it goes.
- Approve sensitive actions when an agent asks - including pasting in a credential it needs (which it will only ever use as a protected placeholder).
- Keep an eye on spend from the budget view. See Budgets & cost control.