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, and start telling it things. This page is the whole path from nothing to a working 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.

That's the only setup step there is. Full detail — including why the key model matters — is on Bring your own key.

3. Add your first thing

Now just talk to it. Type it 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.

4. Invite your household (optional)

Dustav can be just yours, or the whole family's. If you set up a household, everyone shares one calendar and one set of family facts, each with their own private chat — and the kids can join too, on a device you approve. That's all in one agent, the whole household.

What now?

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

• The calendar — photos, reminders, repeats, edits.
• Notes — the recipes, plans, and lists you make, kept.
• What Dustav remembers — the facts it keeps about your household.
• The glass box — how to read exactly what it knows and does.