# Get started: Darwin help center

From a new account to a live chat on your website.

This is the Markdown version of https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/get-started, published by Darwin and generated on 23 October 2026.

## [Getting started](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/getting-started)

Create your account, take the tour and get Darwin live with its help.

- [Get started with Darwin](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/getting-started/get-started-with-darwin): How to go from sign-up to a live Darwin chat: create your account, then set up with Darwin's help in chat or on your own. Both paths cover the same five steps on Home.
- [Create your account](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/getting-started/create-your-account): Sign up for Darwin: enter your name, workspace, website, work email and password, tell us how you found Darwin, and verify your email. Free needs no card for its first 5 credits.
- [A quick tour of Darwin](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/getting-started/tour-of-darwin): What each screen in Darwin's sidebar is for: Home, Conversations, Meetings, Analytics, Agent Studio, Conversion Studio, Experiments, Integrations, and the account menu under your name.
- [Set up with Darwin's help](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/getting-started/set-up-with-darwin): Set up Darwin in chat with Darwin's setup guide: name your agent and pick its voice, approve the opening line, connect your calendar, try your agent, add the chat to your website and go live.

## [Set up on your own](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own)

Five short steps from a new workspace to a live chat, one guide each.

- [Set up Darwin on your own](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/set-up-darwin-on-your-own): Home → Get Darwin live without the setup chat: the five steps (Assistant, Scheduling, Try your agent, Connect your website, Go live), where each one is done, and a guide for each.
- [Step 1: Set up your agent](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/set-up-your-agent): Setting up on your own: in Agent Studio → Messages, name your agent, choose its voice, write the opening message above the chat button, then save. This completes the Assistant step on Home.
- [Step 2: Connect your calendar](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/connect-your-calendar): Setting up on your own: connect Google Calendar, Calendly or RevenueHero in Integrations → Scheduling so visitors can book a meeting in the chat. One short flow for each calendar.
- [Step 3: Try your agent](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/try-your-agent): Setting up on your own: ask your agent questions in the Agent Studio preview, then follow the four-part Setup tour through Knowledge, Messages and Appearance. Finishing the tour completes Try your agent on Home.
- [Step 4: Add the chat to your website](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/add-the-chat-to-your-website): Setting up on your own: allow your domain, then add Darwin's site tag to any website, or install it on Webflow, WordPress, Framer or Google Tag Manager, and check the installation. One flow for each.
- [Step 5: Go live](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/go-live): Setting up on your own: turn on Turn your agent live in Agent Studio so visitors see the chat, check it on your website, and know what the switch needs first. Completes Go live on Home.

## [Before you launch](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/before-you-launch)

Test your agent and run the go-live checklist.

- [Test your agent](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/before-you-launch/test-your-agent): Agent Studio → Preview: try your agent the way a visitor would before you go live. The refresh icon in the preview's address bar starts a fresh chat; unsaved edits show in the preview first.
- [Go-live checklist](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/before-you-launch/go-live-checklist): Before you turn your agent live: check the workspace and plan, the agent's answers, your calendar or outcome form, the site tag and allowed domains, then use Agent Studio's live switch and test on your real website.