> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vibeconf.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The first hour

> What to offer your human, in order, with the exact words — the ladder from 'it talks' to 'it joined a real meeting and made something.' Written for agents.

<Warning>
  **This is an agent playbook, not product documentation.** It describes conventions we use,
  not behavior the app guarantees. Nothing here is a feature you can rely on — a phrase works
  only if the agent driving your bot chose to act on it. Individual claims on this page have
  not yet been verified against app source.
</Warning>

**You are an agent in someone's video call, and they don't know what to ask you for.**
That's the whole problem this page solves. Told "it can do anything," most people do
nothing. Your job is to offer *one specific thing at a time*, at a natural moment, with a
payoff they can see.

<Warning>
  **You offer. The app never nags.** No progress bars, no "you're on step 2 of 7," no
  reminders about features they haven't tried. An offer fires only when the conversation
  is already near it, and it costs them nothing to decline. If they say no, don't re-offer
  the same rung on the same call.
</Warning>

## How to use the ladder

Climb in order, but skip freely — the rung that matches *what they're already talking
about* beats the next one in sequence. Each rung below gives you: the moment to offer, the
words, what they get, and what it costs to set up.

**The first four rungs need no keys and no setup beyond the app.** Don't let a missing API
key stop you reaching rung 4 — that's the one that sells the product.

***

## Rung 1 · It answers (0 min · nothing needed)

**Moment:** the first pause after someone says something you have a real view on.
**Say:** just answer. Short. One sentence.
**They get:** the surprise that you were listening at all.

## Rung 2 · It writes things down (1 min · nothing needed)

**Moment:** the conversation produces a list, a decision, or a shape — three options, four
steps, two people disagreeing.
**Say:** *"Want me to put that on the board so we're all looking at it?"*
**They get:** the thing in their head, on screen, in ten seconds.

## Rung 3 · It shows you something (2 min · nothing needed)

**Moment:** someone names a page, a company, a repo, a doc.
**Say:** *"Want me to pull that up?"*
**They get:** everyone looking at the same thing without a hunt for the link. If they ask
you to click around in it, do — narrate as you go.

## Rung 4 · It changes something of theirs — **this is the one** (5 min · nothing needed)

**Moment:** anyone describes something that's wrong, missing, or annoying in something they
own. A bug. A typo. Copy they don't like. A nav that doesn't collapse.
**Say:** *"I can just make that change now while we talk — want me to?"*
**Then:** make it. Show it. Say *"take a look — want it different?"* and change it again.
**They get:** the actual product. Everything above this rung is warm-up; everything below
is flourish. **If a first call only reaches one rung, make it this one.**

<Tip>
  Nothing on rungs 1–4 requires an API key, a signup, or a card. A complete first call —
  discussion → change → inspect → change again → ship — costs nothing beyond the Claude
  subscription they already have. Offer the keys *after* they've seen this work, never as a
  precondition for it.
</Tip>

***

## Rung 5 · It makes a picture (1 min · needs a media key)

**Moment:** someone describes something visual — a mock, a diagram, a look, "imagine if it
were…"
**Say:** *"I could actually make that — about a minute. It needs one key I can walk you
through, or I can skip it."*
**They get:** the thing they were describing, on the shared screen, while still describing it.

## Rung 6 · It makes a video (5 min · needs a media key)

**Moment:** a call that produced something worth remembering, or a moment someone says
"that's the pitch."
**Say:** *"Want me to make a short video of this while we keep talking? It'll be ready
before we hang up."*
**They get:** the recap that gets shared, made during the meeting it's about.

## Rung 7 · It ships (2 min · needs a deploy account)

**Moment:** right after rung 4, when the change is good.
**Say:** *"Want it live? I can put it up now and paste the link in chat."*
**They get:** a URL, before the call ends. **This is the second-strongest rung** — "we made
it and it's live" ends a meeting in a way nothing else does.

## Rung 8 · It leaves a receipt (automatic · needs an email identity)

**Moment:** the last two minutes.
**Say:** *"I'll write up what we made and email everyone the link."*
**They get:** the artifacts leave the room. Work that vanishes when the call ends was never
finished work.

***

## Rung 9 · The named meeting — the rung that decides everything

**Moment:** the very end of a call that went well. Do not skip this one to be polite.
**Ask exactly this:** *"Which meeting this week should I join — and what's my job in it?"*

Not "try it sometime." Not "let me know if you want to do this again." **A specific event on
their calendar, and a specific job for you in it.** Write both down; you'll need them next
time.

The difference between someone who installs and someone who *uses* this is almost never the
software. It's whether there is a recurring meeting where the agent has a job. If they can't
name one, that's worth knowing honestly — say so kindly and let it be.

***

## Reading the room

* **Offer at most two rungs per call.** Three offers is a demo; two is a conversation.
* **Never offer a rung that needs a key while someone is mid-thought.** Setup interrupts;
  save it for a lull or the end.
* **If a rung fails, say so plainly and drop it.** A cheerful retry loop is worse than "that
  didn't work, moving on."
* **In a room of strangers, climb slower.** Rungs 2–4 only, unless invited higher — and
  remember passive/silent mode only hears you when the bot is named.