Getting started

Dustav is ready the moment you bring a key — there's no questionnaire, no setup wizard, no "give it a name and a personality." You sign in, connect your Anthropic key, point it at your email, and it gets to work. This page is the whole path from nothing to a working inbox and calendar.

1. Sign in

Dustav signs you in by email code — enter your address, we email you a short code, you type it back. No password to invent or forget. That's the account.

2. Bring your Claude key

Dustav runs on your own Anthropic (Claude) API key, so the AI talks straight to Anthropic under your account and we're never in the middle. If you don't have one yet, it takes a couple of minutes: make an account at platform.claude.com, add a little credit, and create a key (it starts with sk-ant-). Paste it in when Dustav asks.

Full detail — including why the key model matters — is on Bring your own key.

3. Point it at your email

This is what Dustav is for. Two ways in:

• Connect Gmail — in Settings, connect your Gmail (read-only). A once-a-day read surfaces the emails worth acting on, and you review them.
• Forward — not on Gmail, or want to send just one? Forward an email to your private Dustav address from any provider.

Then teach it what to keep: describe a recurring email in a sentence — "save the date, receipt number, and total from my Anthropic receipts" — and Dustav writes an email rule that files every future one into a table you can export.

4. Or just talk to it

You don't have to start with email. You can also tell Dustav things in plain words, or hand it a photo:

• "Dentist on Thursday at 3." → on the calendar, with a reminder.
• "Mom's birthday is March 14, every year." → a repeating event, and a fact it now remembers.
• Snap the school-year calendar off the fridge → it reads every date onto your calendar at once.

You don't learn a syntax. You say what you'd say to a person who keeps your calendar, and it does the rest. See the calendar for everything it can do.

5. Invite your household or team (optional)

Dustav can be just yours, or shared. If you set one up for a household or a shop, everyone shares one calendar, one set of tables, and one set of facts, each with their own private chat. Another adult or an assistant joins by email invite — that's all in one agent, the whole household.

What now?

That's it — you're running. From here:

• Connecting Gmail — the daily read and the review queue.
• Email rules & tables — turn recurring email into an exportable table.
• The calendar — photos, reminders, repeats, edits.
• The glass box — how to read exactly what it knows and does.