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Getting started: sign up and build your first automation

Create your Tyrbo account, pick how you want to build, and take your first automation from idea to a successful run.

Tyrbo combines app-to-app integrations with real browser automation in one platform. This guide takes you from a fresh account to your first successful run.

Create your account

  1. Go to app.tyrbo.ai/signup.
  2. Sign up with your email address or continue with Google.
  3. Confirm your email if prompted, and you'll land in your dashboard.

Your account comes with an organization. Automations, run history, devices, and billing all live at the organization level, so you can invite teammates later without rebuilding anything.

Pick how you want to build

There are three ways to create an automation, and you can mix them freely:

  • Describe it in plain English. The AI builder turns a prompt like "every morning, pull new rows from this spreadsheet and post a summary to Slack" into a reviewable, editable workflow. See Build automations with the AI builder.
  • Record it in your browser. Install the Chrome recorder extension, perform the task once, and Tyrbo captures every click, keystroke, and scrape as replayable steps. See Install the Chrome recorder and record a flow.
  • Build it step by step. Open the flow editor and compose integration steps and browser steps by hand, with loops, branches, and variables.

Build your first automation

For a first automation we recommend the AI builder — it's the fastest way to see how Tyrbo thinks about steps:

  1. Open the AI builder from your dashboard.
  2. Describe the task in one or two sentences. Mention the apps and websites involved and what should trigger the automation (a schedule, a webhook, or an event in an app).
  3. Answer the copilot's couple of clarifying questions (pressable chips — or type your own answer), then press Start build.
  4. Watch an AI agent build the workflow in a real browser, step by step. Builds are metered by agent time and tokens (a live ticker shows the running cost, with a hard per-build cap); the finished steps land on the canvas for you to review and publish. See Build automations with the AI builder.

Run it

Open your new automation and start a run. Each run debits a flat base — 10 credits for cloud runs, 5 when the browser work runs on your own device. You can watch progress live, and every run is recorded in your run history with per-step results — browser steps also store artifacts like screenshots, so you can see exactly what happened.

What things cost

Credits are the single currency for everything Tyrbo does:

| Action | Cost | | --- | --- | | AI builder — agentic build | Metered by agent time + tokens (live ticker; per-build cap) | | AI edit of an existing automation | 50 credits, flat | | Running an automation (your device) | 5 credits, flat | | Running an automation (cloud) | 10 credits — first 5 cloud minutes included, then 1/minute | | Run-time AI steps (optional) | Metered extra, by token usage |

Plans include a monthly credit allowance — 2,000 credits on Light, 8,000 on Pro, 20,000 on Scale. The details live in Billing, credits, and overage.

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