How to set up
your assistant?

A detailed guide on how to get started quickly and configure the assistant for your needs.

~10 min to get started · complex things in plain language
who it's for

Built for people with lots of
context and routine.

Proboi becomes whatever you describe it as.  

🏪

Small business

CRM, invoices, stock, staff reports — all in one chat. Dictate tasks by voice, Proboi compiles a revenue digest and sends it each morning.


command

Every morning at 9:30 — revenue digest and bookings for the day

🧑‍💼

Executive assistants

Manage your boss's affairs: email, meetings, travel, documents. Proboi reads Gmail, schedules meetings, prepares letters for signing.


command

Compile today's email digest and prepare draft replies

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Lawyers

Upload relevant materials to Proboi, ask questions about them — it answers precisely and links the source.


command

Find where rights and obligations of the parties are described in this contract

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Accountants

Upload a 1C export and get a report with charts and comments.


command

Compare two tables and show the differences

🛍️

WB / Ozon sellers

CSV order export → analysis → reports → new document with the charts you need


command

Show products with margin below 20%

🎬

SMM & content creators

Send your notes, thoughts, ideas. Proboi builds a content plan and tries not to miss anything.


command

Turn this video into a 6-post carousel

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Automation builders

Describe a bot, script or mini-service in words — Proboi writes the code, runs it in a container as a test, delivers a .py file or deploys to your subdomain.


command

Build a bot with an admin panel for accepting requests

✍️

Copywriters & editors

Upload talking points and briefs — Proboi drafts in your tone, fact-checks via the web, delivers a .docx with edits and versions.


command

Rewrite this post in the style of author N and trim to 1500 characters

🎓

Tutors

Photo of a textbook → text recognition → walkthrough → ready explanation. Plus flashcard, test and homework generation on the topic.


command

Walk through this problem as a tutor, explain it to a year-8 student

everything it can do

14 key questions

Starting with what to configure first, then the heavier stuff: code, charts, websites, meeting minutes.

01 How do I set up the assistant for myself?
"I'm Anna, a marketer"
got it. casual tone
"I'm in Ekb, running 2 projects"

Describe yourself in a few sentences.

Your messages set the context for everything that follows. Say who you are, what you do, what tone you prefer. The more specific, the better the assistant understands you.

  • Name, occupation, key projects
  • Tone: casual, formal, brief, with emoji
  • You can share a link to your blog or profile — it reads and builds a portrait of you
  • Assign a role: be my sales analyst
  • Changed your mind: forget that or /forget
I'm Anna, marketer at a startup. casual, no filler remember: timezone +3 MSK, work hours 10–19 be my English tutor, check my texts like a teacher
02 How do I connect Google services: email, calendar, Drive?
Gmail
Calendar
Drive
Docs

All your work tools in one chat.

Proboi reads email, schedules meetings, uploads files to Drive, creates and edits spreadsheets and documents.

  • Gmail — reads, replies, creates summaries and newsletters
  • Calendar — schedules meetings, finds free slots
  • Drive / Docs / Sheets — opens, finds, edits, answers about content
  • Revoke access/disconnect or in service settings
read 10 emails from my boss, give me the key points schedule a meeting with Mary on Thursday at 3pm find the contract with N in Drive and convert to xlsx create a Google Doc "Weekly Plan" with sections for each day
03 How do I talk to the assistant by voice?

Proboi understands speech and can reply by voice if asked.

You can speak in whole paragraphs — Proboi transcribes, identifies the task and does it.

  • Voice messages up to 20 minutes — transcription via Whisper, ~95% accuracy
  • You can mix formats: dictate a task by voice, then send a file as text
  • Replies are text. Ask reply by voice and it sends audio
  • Russian, English and ~30 more languages, handles accents and jargon
[🎤 30 sec] "remember — client N is now on deferred payment, add to the card" reply by voice, I'm driving
04 How do I upload documents and work with them?
box · "study"

Send PDFs, articles, textbooks — they're saved in your library.

Ask questions about the documents — the answers come from the real text. If something wasn't found, the bot says so — it won't make anything up.

  • Formats: PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, links, photos
  • Group by boxes: put this in study
  • Ask with the box name: what's in study about dopamine?
  • Proboi shows the source quote, page number and paragraph
put these 4 PDFs into the "thesis" box what does this textbook say about dopamine? show the source you took that from
05 How do I set up schedules and automations?
09:00 · digest
13:00 · report
21:00 · "how was your day?"
Mon 08:00 · plan

Give all instructions to Proboi in plain text.

Trigger examples:

  • Time-based: "every morning at 9 send me a mail digest"
  • Scheduled: "every Monday at 8 make a plan for the week"
  • Event-based: "if a flat under £800 appears on Rightmove, message me immediately"
  • See all rules — /schedule
  • Cancel — "cancel the morning digest rule"
every day at 9pm ask how my day went and log it in a diary on the first of every month send a report for the previous month remind me in 2 hours to water the plants
06 How do I hand off a long task to run in the background?
"200-page report → presentation" 22:14 → 07:30

Close Telegram — the task will finish anyway.

Long tasks run in the background. Large tasks are handed to multiple agents in parallel — Proboi figures out how to split them (you don't need to think about it).

  • "Read a 200-page PDF → give the key points" → summary ready by morning
  • "Collect prices for this product from 20 shops" → .xlsx table
  • "Rewrite all my drafts into one post" → finished text, 1500 characters
  • Progress — /jobs, cancel — "cancel the prices task"
got it. estimated by 07:30. I'll message you when done done — .xlsx table, 312 rows
07 How do I search the internet?
reuters bbc ft.com

Data from open sources.

Proboi goes online, reads 5–10 sources in parallel, creates a summary with citations and links. If contradictions are found, it shows both sides and which source to trust more.

  • Restrict: "past month only", "only .com sources"
  • Drop a link — it reads the page and answers about the content
  • All sources are labelled — links are clickable right from the chat
find news about AI regulation. 3 links and a summary this article — what's actually there, pros and cons
08 How do I transcribe a meeting or audio file?
40:12 → minutes.doc

Meeting audio or video → transcript + minutes with action items.

Send the file (or a YouTube / Zoom recording link). Proboi splits by speaker, highlights tasks and decisions, uploads minutes to Google Doc and sends the link.

  • Formats: .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4, YouTube links
  • "Extract tasks by owner" — you get a checklist with tags
  • Languages: Russian, English, mixed dialogues
40-min meeting audio — transcribe, pull out tasks, make a Google Doc YouTube link → transcription → key points → post → cover
09 How do I extract data from a PDF into a spreadsheet?

OCR + parsing + ready Excel file on output.

Send a scan, photo or PDF — Proboi recognises text and tables, creates .xlsx.

  • Bank statements → transactions by category, totals
  • Photo of a receipt → rows in Excel, monthly average
  • 1C export → report with charts and comments
  • Convert: PDF → XLSX, XLSX → CSV, HTML → XLSX
take this PDF (bank statement), pull transactions into Excel, calculate by category photo of receipt → rows in Excel
10 How do I build analytics from Excel?
sales · 6 months

You send the table — Proboi reads it, builds charts, draws conclusions.

The assistant writes its own code, runs it, catches errors, fixes them, sends a finished report with charts and observations.

  • Charts by month / category / manager
  • Compare two tables — shows differences row by row
  • Finished .xlsx with cells coloured by margin / target
Excel with 6 months of sales — charts by month, top-3 managers, anomalies compare two tables and show differences
11 How do I create a Word document or find images?

Finished .docx and image suggestions from the internet.

Proboi builds documents with formatting, sections and lists. It can't draw itself, but searches the web for suitable images and shows options to choose from.

  • Images from the web: references, photos, covers — Proboi finds options and sends links
  • Edit documents by text or voice: "stricter font", "shorter paragraphs", "add section"
  • Presentation .pptx with highlights and structure
one-page résumé from my notes in Word, strict font, skills section as a list find 5 images for a post about Japan — minimalism, warm tones, Mount Fuji presentation for a bank meeting, 8 slides
12 How do I make code, scripts, my own bot or website?
$ python parse_moex.py # fetching quotes… ! retry: rate-limit # writing quotes.csv ✓ done · 5 tickers

Give instructions in text or voice.

Built-in server with Python, Node, browser and internet access. Proboi catches errors, fixes them and keeps going.

  • Scripts: web scrapers, table processing, routine automation
  • Your own bot: describe the logic and get a bot with an admin panel for accepting requests
  • Your own site: landing / portfolio → publishes at proboi.site/u/<your_id>
  • Mini-games and prototypes: HTML file, open and play
  • Don't like it — send edits as text or voice, Proboi will redo it
Python script: check competitors on 2GIS, get 5 stock quotes and make an Excel file snake mini-game as a single HTML file portfolio site: name, what I do, contacts → publish it
13 How does memory work and how do I clear everything?
project N deadlines client edits contractor

Inside Proboi's head is a network of connections, not a table.

Want to mark something important, forget something, start fresh — one phrase does it.

  • "Remember that …" — marks as an important node
  • /memory — see what Proboi knows about you
  • "Forget what I said about N" — removes from the graph
  • Say "delete everything about me" — full wipe
remember: I'm no longer working with this client tell me what you remember about project N
14 Can I do something that's not on this list?
ask anything
can you…? figure it out make a plan something new help me…

Almost anything. This list is the most common scenarios, not the limits of Proboi.

Proboi is general-purpose. Describe the task and it will try to do it. If it can't, it will explain why.

  • Describe the task, don't look for a button
  • If Proboi isn't sure, it will ask rather than generating nonsense
  • There are more capabilities than described here. Write what you need and try
what can you do? show me 5 non-obvious ideas for my task help me with something I can't even articulate yet think of 5 ways to speed up my workflow

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