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How Corlyn works.

Everything you need to find your way around the office, work with your AI teammates and get the most out of Corlyn.

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1What Corlyn is

Corlyn is an office you can walk around, where every teammate is an AI agent. Instead of opening a dozen tools, you walk over to the right person and ask: the engineer for a website, the designer for a poster, the ad designer for your next ad, the analyst for your numbers.

Each teammate has their own room, role and specialties. You can talk to them in person or message them from your phone. They work for you free every month, and you can upgrade any of them for more.

You can use Corlyn in your browser or as a desktop app for Windows. It's the same office either way.

Corlyn is an early preview. Alex, Maya, Jason and Sam are working now. Morgan, Jordan, Priya and Lee are joining soon: you'll find them at their desks, but they can't take requests yet.

2Getting started

  1. Click Get started on the home page and choose Continue in browser or Download for PC.
  2. Create your account. Click Continue with Google, or enter your name, a username, your email and a password. If you use email, open the confirmation link we send you. Your name and @username show in the office's top-left corner.
  3. Wait a moment while the office sets up. The loading screen finishes when everything is ready, usually in about a second.
  4. You arrive in the lobby. On your first visit, GumShoe the penguin wakes up and shows you around (or press Skip tutorial). Use WASD or the arrow keys to walk, and head to any room to meet the teammate who works there.

3Controls

Corlyn is made for a keyboard and mouse. These work anywhere in the office:

WASD
WalkOr use the arrow keys. Walking also stands you up and puts your phone away.
E
TalkTalk to the teammate you're standing next to.
P
PhoneTake out your phone to message the team. Press again to put it away.
M
Big mapZoom the minimap into a big labelled map. Press again to shrink it.
/
SearchJump to the search box to find a room or a person.
Space
Stand upGet up from a seat, or put your phone away.
Enter
SendSend your message in a conversation or on your phone.
Esc
CloseClose a conversation, the big map or your phone.

With the mouse

  • Click a teammate and you walk over and start talking.
  • Click anywhere on the minimap (small or zoomed) to walk there on your own.
  • Click the phone at the top of the screen to open or close your messages.

4Getting around the office

The office has a room for every part of your team, plus a few places to relax:

  • Lobby (main hall), where you arrive.
  • Tech Room, Marketing Room, Meeting Room, Analysis Room, Accounting Room, Reporter Room and Support Room, each with its teammate.
  • Your Office, a private office with a city view, and the Lounge for coffee.

Finding your way

  • Minimap: the top-left corner shows the whole office. You're the blue circle, and teammates are coloured dots. Press M for a big map with everyone's name on it.
  • Search: the panel on the right lists every room and person. Pick a room and you walk there by yourself, finding the way around walls. Pick a person to message them. Press / to start typing.
  • Pressing any movement key stops an automatic walk.

Taking a seat

Walk into any armchair, couch or bench and you sit down automatically. Press Space or any movement key to stand up again.

5Your AI team

Each teammate is an AI agent with a role, a personality and a room of their own. Here's who does what, and a few things you can ask each of them:

Alex

The Engineer
Tech Room

Builds websites and small web apps while you watch them come to life in a preview window. Attach screenshots or files, ask for changes, undo a build, and download the finished site. He can also put Maya's images on your site.

Build a landing pageMake a portfolio siteCreate a small gameUse Maya's poster on my site

Maya

The Creative Lead
Marketing Room

Designs images: social posts, posters, ads, logos and thumbnails. Attach a photo and she'll edit it. Tell her your brand's colours, fonts or logo once and she uses them every time. Her studio window keeps everything she's made, ready to download.

Design a social postMake a posterDesign a logoMake an ad

Jason

The Ad Designer
Marketing Room

Makes launch and promo videos and ads for your product, from what the team has built. He looks at Alex's sites (the desktop app takes screenshots of them for him), Maya's images, your brand kit, and anything you attach: photos, screen recordings, files or a whole folder. Videos play in his studio in any shape (9:16, 1:1 or 16:9) and download as MP4. Ads come with their text, ready to paste. He works on paid plans only.

Make a launch videoTurn Alex's site into a promoMake an Instagram adCut it for TikTok

Sam

The Data Analyst
Analysis Room

Analyses your business numbers: connect Stripe, your website or a spreadsheet and ask about sales, customers and visitors. He answers in plain English and shows charts when they help: sales over time, top customers, this month vs last.

How did we do yesterday?This month vs last monthWho are my top customers?Where do my visitors come from?Chart my sales this month

Alex, Maya and Sam are on your team from the start, free every month. Jason joins when you pick one of his plans (see Plans and upgrades).

The office guide

GumShoe

The Office Guide (self-appointed)
Lobby

A penguin in a fedora and sunglasses who does absolutely nothing but yap. He gives you a tour on your first visit, roasting every teammate along the way, then goes back to standing in the lobby and falling asleep on his feet. Talk to him and he'll say hi. Keep poking him and he'll tell you to go do some work. Or else.

Show me around againAre you asleep?Do you even work here?

Joining soon

These teammates are at their desks, but their AI is still being built. Talk to them and they'll introduce themselves; they can't take requests yet.

Morgan

The Manager
Meeting Room

Will run meetings, set goals, assign work and keep everyone on track.

Jordan

The Reporter
Reporter Room

Will report what happened, write the newsletter and draft announcements.

Priya

The Accountant
Accounting Room

Will handle expenses, invoices, budgets and financial summaries.

Lee

The Support Specialist
Support Room

Will answer customers, troubleshoot issues and write help articles.

While you're not around

Teammates keep themselves busy: Maya sketches on a tablet, Jason hunts for a hook, Sam checks the time, Alex reviews his code. When you start talking to someone, they stop what they're doing and talk with you.

6Talking to teammates

The quickest way to get something done is to walk over and ask.

  1. Walk up to a teammate and press E, or just click them and you'll walk over.
  2. A conversation box opens with their greeting. On the right are suggestions for their role, like “Make a poster” for Maya or “Build a landing page” for Alex, and their credits for the month.
  3. Type your request, or click a suggestion to put it in the box, then add details. For example: “Make a poster for our summer sale, bright and fun”. Alex, Maya and Jason have a paperclip for attaching images (Alex also takes files on his Pro plan; Jason also takes video clips, files and folders).
  4. Press Enter to send. They reply in the conversation, and Alex's websites, Maya's images and Jason's videos and ads open in their own window. Press Esc to close it.

Your conversation stays open while you're in the office, so you can walk away and pick up where you left off. Alex's projects and your conversations with Maya and Jason are saved to your account; Sam's conversation starts fresh when you reload.

Tips for good requests

  • Ask the right person. Websites go to Alex, images to Maya, launch videos and ads to Jason, questions about your numbers to Sam.
  • Be specific. Say what you want, who it's for and when you need it.
  • Keep going. Reply in the same conversation to add details or change your mind.

7Messaging on your phone

Don't want to walk over? Message anyone from your phone.

  • Press P, or click the phone at the top of the screen. Your character takes out their phone and your messages open.
  • You'll see a chat with each teammate plus Office Team, the group chat. A dot marks unread messages. Teammates who are joining soon can't be messaged yet.
  • Open a chat, type, and press Enter to send. Alex, Maya, Sam and (once you've hired him) Jason answer just like in person.
  • You can also start a chat from the search panel (pick a person) or from Your team (click Message).
  • Press Esc, click the phone again, or start walking to put it away.

8Plans and upgrades

Alex, Maya and Sam work for you free every month, and each has their own paid plan when you want more. Jason works on paid plans only. Open Hire employees in the left panel to compare them and upgrade.

  • Alex (websites): Free 5 credits a month (about one site and a few changes). Alex Pro $19.99/month for 50 credits, Alex Pro+ $49.99/month for 130. A new site is about 5 credits and a change about 1. Pro plans can read files and folders, and Pro+ adds Max mode (switch it on in Alex's panel): the most capable AI for big or tricky builds, using about twice the credits.
  • Maya (images): Free 3 images a month. Maya Pro $19.99/month for 50 images, Maya Pro+ $49.99/month for 150. Pro plans add HD images (4 credits each).
  • Jason (launch videos and ads, paid only): Jason Pro $29.99/month for 70 credits (about 6 launch videos and 20 ads), Jason Pro+ $59.99/month for 160 (about 15 launch videos and 40 ads). A new video is 8 credits, a change to a video 3, an ad 1 (HD 4). The other shapes of a video and the MP4 downloads are free. There's no free plan for Jason. Maya and Jason have separate plans.
  • Sam (numbers): Free 8 questions a month. Sam Pro $19.99/month for 200.
  • Packs: run out mid-month? Alex's credit pack ($9.99 for 20), Maya's image pack ($9.99 for 30) and Jason's credit pack ($9.99 for 20) never expire and are used after your monthly credits.
  • Free credits top up once a month. Paid credits reset on each payment and don't roll over.
  • Cancel any time from your Paddle receipt email. Your plan runs to the end of the month you've paid for.
Payments are handled by Paddle, our reseller. Sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where it applies. See the Terms and Refund Policy.

9Your profile and settings

The left panel in the office is yours:

  • Profile: your name and @username, from your account.
  • Change avatar: pick your character: Hoodie, Skater or Ponytail. Your choice is remembered.
  • Your team: everyone working in the office, with their role and room. Click Go see to walk over, or Message to open your phone. Teammates joining soon are listed too.
  • Hire employees: see Plans and upgrades.
  • Settings: choose Dark or Light mode for the office.
  • Back to home: leave the office and return to the home page (in the desktop app, the sign-in screen).

10The desktop app

The Corlyn app for Windows gives you the same office in its own window, with its own icon.

  1. On the home page, click Get started → Download for PC, or use the buttons in the Take the office with you section.
  2. Open Corlyn-Setup.exe from your Downloads. If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway. The app isn't code-signed yet, so Windows doesn't recognise it.
  3. Read and accept the Terms of Use, keep the suggested options and click Install. Leave Run Corlyn ticked to open it straight away.
  4. Next time, open Corlyn from the icon on your desktop, or type “Corlyn” in the Start menu search.

The app opens to its own sign-in screen. If you've already signed up in the app, click Enter the office.

The Mac app is coming soon. Until then, Mac users can use Corlyn in the browser.

11Questions

My character won't move.

A conversation, your phone, the big map or a window might be open and using the keyboard. Press Esc to close it. If you were typing in the search box, click the office first.

I'm lost. How do I get back?

Press M for the big map and click where you want to go, or press /, type a room like “Lobby” and pick it. You'll walk there on your own.

Why can't Morgan, Jordan, Priya or Lee help me?

Corlyn is in preview, and teammates are getting their AI one by one. Alex, Maya, Jason and Sam are working now; the others are joining soon.

Should I ask Maya or Jason?

Ask Jason for launch and promo videos, and for ads: something you'll show people on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn or a website, where you want clicks. He writes the text too. Ask Maya for everything else you need designed: posters, logos, social posts, thumbnails and photo edits.

How do Jason's videos get made?

Jason plans the video from a set of ready-made scenes (a hook, your product on a laptop or phone, features, numbers, steps, your logo and a call to action) and fills them with your screenshots, images and words. It plays straight away in his studio. Pick 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 to see it in another shape, then Export MP4 to make the file on your own computer (nothing is uploaded, and it takes about as long as the video). Export works in the desktop app and in Chrome or Edge. Videos have no music yet; add a track in the app you post from.

How does Jason see the sites Alex built?

In the desktop app, Jason takes screenshots of your three newest sites (full page, on a desktop and a phone screen) whenever they've changed, and uses them in your videos. In the browser he can't take screenshots, so attach your own screenshots or a screen recording with the paperclip.

What happens when I run out of credits?

The teammate tells you, and nothing is charged. Free credits top up once a month; you can also upgrade or buy a pack. If an image or answer fails on our side, its credit is given back.

Where is my information saved?

With your account, on Corlyn's servers: your name, @username and email, your office (avatar and dark or light mode), Alex's projects, Maya's images, Jason's videos and ads (and the screenshots, photos and clips you gave him), your conversations with them and your brand kit, and any business data you connect to Sam (as daily totals, not raw records). Sign in on any computer, or in the desktop app, and it's all there, and other accounts on the same computer keep their own. See the Privacy Policy.

I installed the app but can't find it.

Look for the Corlyn icon on your desktop, or type “Corlyn” in the Start menu search. If it's not there, run Corlyn-Setup.exe again. It adds the desktop icon and the Start menu entry every time.

How do I log out or switch accounts?

On the website, click Log out in the top-right corner of the home page. In the desktop app, go Back to home and choose Not you? Use another account.

Can I use Corlyn on my phone?

You can open it, but the office is built for a keyboard and mouse, so it's much nicer on a computer.

How do I switch between dark and light mode?

In the office, open Settings in the left panel and choose Dark or Light. Your choice is remembered.