Quick start
This walks you from "never heard of Stratam" to a live, paying-attention operator in under five minutes.
1. Sign up
Hit stratam.us/signup and create an account with your real work email. (Disposable / temp-mail addresses are refused. We promise no spam.)
After confirming your email, you'll land on a short four-question onboarding so we can wire the dashboard to fit your use case. Skip it if you're impatient — the questions are non-blocking.
2. Pick a plan (or stay on the free trial)
The dashboard greets you on Free trial — no card, no charges, but channels stay locked. To unlock anything beyond the dashboard chat:
| Tier | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Sidekick | $10/mo | Discord chat · 100 actions / month |
| Operator | $25/mo | Discord + Email + SMS + Voice · scheduled monitors · web scraping · $15/mo compute |
| Builder | $75/mo | Everything in Operator · custom agents · API access · $50/mo compute |
Subscribe from the Billing card on /settings or the Upgrade quick-action on the dashboard. We accept cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay.
3. Wire your first channel
Pick the channel you live in most:
- Discord — Connect Discord →. One-click OAuth. Stratam DMs you and listens for messages in the channels you authorize.
- Email (Gmail) — Connect Gmail →. Same OAuth flow. Stratam polls inbound + can send replies on your behalf.
- SMS — Set up SMS →. Bring-your-own-Twilio: paste your account SID + auth token + a verified phone number.
- Voice — Set up voice →. ElevenLabs custom-tool webhook with HMAC signature.
Each channel has a per-page setup wizard with copy-paste-able env values + a "Test" button that confirms it's reachable.
4. Drop your first monitor
Go to Monitors → and click + New monitor. A monitor is just (label, instruction, schedule, notify channel) — the worker runs your instruction through the full agent stack every time the schedule fires.
For ideas, browse Skill packs on /monitors — pre-built templates like:
- BTC price watch (every hour, ping if >3% move)
- Daily Gmail digest (weekdays 8am)
- Deploy ping watcher (every 10 min, alert on failure)
- Tomorrow's calendar prep (weekdays 5pm)
- Cert expiry watcher (Mondays 9am)
One click and you're live.
5. Vault notes Stratam should remember
/vault is your operator's long-term memory. Drop facts, decisions, project notes — anything Stratam should recall later. Tag them so they're easy to filter.
When you chat with Stratam over any channel and say "remember that …", the remember tool fires automatically and the entry lands in /vault. Same with recall — Stratam searches the vault before answering anything that might reference past context.
What's next
- Channel tutorials — deeper setup for SMS, voice, Gmail
- Tool reference — what each tool does + when Stratam picks it
- Best practices — workflows we've seen work well
- Migrating from ChatGPT / Notion / Zapier — bringing existing stuff over