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Connect WhatsApp, say hello, and receive your first brief.
By the end of this you will have Suvi connected to WhatsApp and your mail, and you will have received a brief and sent one thing from it. It takes about twenty minutes, most of which is waiting for Suvi to read your inbox.
You need: the WhatsApp account you want Suvi to use, and admin access to the Google account you want it to read.
Open your instance
Suvi runs as a dedicated deployment for your business, at your own address. Your onboarding email has the link. Sign in with Google.
If you are the first person in, you are the owner. The owner is the only role that can connect accounts and add people, so start here rather than delegating it.
Connect WhatsApp
Go to Settings, then Connections, and choose WhatsApp.
Suvi gets its own WhatsApp seat, not a copy of yours. You are pairing a second device to a number Suvi will answer on.
| How do you want to pair? | Method |
|---|---|
| You have the phone in front of you | Scan the QR code |
| The phone is somewhere else | Enter a phone number and read back the 8-character code |
Once it connects, the status goes green and stays there. If it drops later, see WhatsApp disconnected.
Say hello
Message the number. Anything will do.
hey, what can you do?
I can read and draft your mail, keep your calendar, track tasks and commitments, run your invoicing and inventory, and use websites that have no API. Right now I only have WhatsApp connected, so let's fix that: want to connect Gmail?
Suvi only claims what your instance can actually do. If a capability has no credentials behind it, its tools are hidden and Suvi will not offer it. That is deliberate: an assistant that promises things it cannot do is worse than one with fewer features.
Connect your mail and calendar
Back in Connections, connect Google. You will be asked for mail, calendar and file access.
Grant only what you want Suvi to have. Every scope is listed with what it is for, and you can add more later. Suvi will tell you when it needs something it does not have rather than failing silently.
It then reads your recent mail once to build context. That takes a few minutes on a busy inbox, and it happens quietly: no drafts are sent and no labels change during the first pass.
Read your first brief
Suvi briefs you twice a day on WhatsApp: once in the morning covering everything since yesterday afternoon, and once mid-afternoon covering the day so far.
Morning. 4 things need you. 1. Priya asked for the revised quote, waiting since Tuesday 2. Invoice INV-0038 is 9 days overdue with Acme 3. Standup moved to 11:00, you have a conflict 4. Draft ready: reply to Karthik about the warehouse visit Reply with a number to act on it.
4
Here's the draft: "Hi Karthik, Thursday works. I'll come by around 2pm and bring the updated stock list. Anything specific you want me to look at while I'm there?" Send it?
yes
Sent.
Between briefs Suvi stays quiet unless something genuinely cannot wait: a message from someone you have marked important, a same-day deadline, or a reply to time-sensitive outreach.
Do one thing from it
Reply to one item in the brief and let it go out. This is the part worth doing on day one, because it is where you find out whether you trust the drafts.
Suvi drafts, you approve. It will not send a first message to a new recipient on its own, and anything irreversible asks first. You can widen that later, per person and per action, once you have seen what the drafts look like.
You are set up
Suvi now has your messages, your mail and your calendar, and it will get sharper over the next fortnight as its memory of your business fills in. You do not need to do anything to make that happen.