CellCog lets you hire AI employees for any role and work with the same super-agent directly in chat; this guide walks you through the sidebar, your first chat, and the platform's key features.
CellCog lets you hire AI employees for any role: general-purpose AI workers that show up with their own inbox, their own routines, and, on a paid account, their own browser, and act on the goals and permissions you set, all while you sleep. Each one is built on CellCog's super-agent foundation: state-of-the-art deep research, content creation, and task automation across every modality (reports, videos, images, code, and much more). You can also work with that super-agent directly in chat.
When you log in, the sidebar on the left has three parts: a header, a navigation list, and your lists of AI employees, channels and direct messages, and recent chats.
Header icons
| Icon | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Cowork | The page where you connect the CellCog Desktop app so agents can read, edit, and run commands on your computer |
| Browse my Chrome | The page where you connect the CellCog browser extension so agents can work in your real Chrome |
| Search chats (⌘K / Ctrl+K) | Full-text search across your chats |
Navigation
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| New chat (⇧⌘O / Ctrl+Shift+O) | Start a new chat with an AI agent |
| New AI Employee | Hire a new AI employee |
Apps (a two-column grid under a foldable APPS header)
| App | What it does |
|---|---|
| Projects | Work organization inside your company: shared documents, agent roles, members |
| Drives | My Drive and the Organization Drive |
| Connectors | Connect external services: tools (Gmail, Slack, and many more), keys, your own MCP servers, website logins, and platforms (Google Drive) |
| MCP / API | Bring CellCog into the agents your team uses: Claude, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, Muse, Linear, and others |
| Tasks | Your organization's task board; the badge counts tasks waiting on you |
| Routines | Every scheduled routine your AI employees run, in one place |
| Phones | Every phone number your AI employees hold, and their calls |
| Contacts | Everyone outside your organization your AI employees have emailed, called or met |
| Social | How your social accounts are growing |
| Ads | How your paid campaigns are doing |
| Outreach | Sending domains, mailboxes, and leads for your AI employees' cold email |
| Spend | Purchases your AI employees make with your Link wallet, each approved by you |
| Avatars | Digital personas with images, a voice, and a personality |
| Browsers | Each AI employee's own cloud browser (paid accounts) |
| Usage | Where your credits go: each AI employee, your chats, and the kind of work |
More holds Learn (Podcast, Blogs, Tutorials) and Pricing; with the sidebar collapsed it also holds the Apps grid.
New AI Employee, Outreach, Tasks, and Routines appear once your account can hire AI employees.
Lists: your AI employees (the small org-chart icon beside the list opens your organization's Teams view), your channels and direct messages, and your recent chats, which you can filter by project.
Profile menu (bottom of the sidebar): Settings, API Keys, Billing, Refer a Friend, your Organization (Settings, Members, Team Billing), Support Docs, and Contact Support.
Sign up with a permanent email address or with Google (addresses from temporary or anonymous inbox services are not accepted), then confirm a few short choices: the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and how you want AI agents and AI employees to act on your behalf. Outside the United States you also see a box for product emails (new features, tips, roles people hire for). It is unticked and optional; leaving it unticked never limits anything. You can change it any time under Settings, Notifications, where two switches control the email you get from CellCog: Product emails and Getting-started emails (a few emails in your first days). The same page has Browser notifications: a system notification on that device when a chat finishes or an AI employee needs you, even with the tab in the background (on iPhone and iPad, add CellCog to your Home Screen first). Account notices, such as a credits-exhausted notice, are not switchable while you hold an account.
Languages I read. Set the languages you read in Settings > Preferences: pick every language you read; the first one is the language messages are translated into. If you have never set them, CellCog fills them once from the languages your browser lists, the next time you open CellCog, and never changes them after that. When your organization's admin has turned on Translate messages, a message in a channel or direct message written in a language you do not read reaches you translated, with the original one click away; support chats use the same languages. A message in any of your languages is never translated for you. See Translation in the Channels Guide.
Your picture and badge colour. Your badge is the square next to your name everywhere in CellCog: the sidebar, task comments, channels, the org chart and Members. Set it in Settings > Account > Identity & address, at the top of the Identity card. Upload picture takes a JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB; you crop it to a square (drag to move, use the slider to zoom, with previews at the sizes people see) and Save picture. Change picture replaces it and Remove takes it away. Below that, Badge colour picks one of 12 colours, shown with your initials whenever there is no picture. A new account starts with a colour picked for you, which you can change any time. Both save the moment you pick them; Save identity still covers only your name and phone. Signing in with Google never adds your Google photo; you show your initials until you upload a picture yourself. Your picture stays inside CellCog: public pages, such as podcast comments and shared posts, show your initials. Your teammates see the change the next time their page loads.
When you sign up with an email and password, CellCog sends a verification link (not a code) to that address, and you see a Check your inbox screen.
Go to Log in, click Forgot password? (or open cellcog.ai/forgot-password), enter your email, and CellCog sends a password reset link. Check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive. If you signed up with Google, use Continue with Google instead.
| Mode | Best For |
|---|---|
| Agent | Fast, iterative — suitable for most work |
| Agent Creative | Design, brand, and other creative work — our most imaginative agent |
| Agent Team | Deep research & multi-angled reasoning, every modality |
Each mode runs at a tier — Flash, Core, or Max — that sets how much power it runs with: Flash is quick and economical, Core is the balanced everyday point, and Max is the deepest reasoning. Every mode offers all three. A fresh chat opens on Agent · Core.
Agent is the most versatile mode — similar to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or Cursor Agent, but built for every modality. One AI agent that works fast and iterates on your feedback.
Agent Creative is the same single agent tuned for taste. It excels as a product manager and designer — web and UI design, 3D generation, visual content, and ambitious one-shot creative builds. Avoid it for programmatic work or deep research — Agent and Agent Team are better fits there.
Agent Team uses multiple agents that research deeply, challenge each other's findings, and deliver comprehensive results. Best for deep research where multi-angled reasoning matters. On the Max tier, every setting is dialed up — best for legal analysis, financial decisions, and other high-stakes work where the extra quality justifies the cost.
You can switch between Agent and Agent Creative, and change any tier, in the middle of a chat — changes apply from your next message. Agent Team is chosen when a chat starts and can't be changed mid-conversation.
Hire general-purpose AI workers for any role. Each AI employee gets its own email inbox, its own cloud browser (on a paid account), a memory that carries across shifts, and a place on your organization's task board and org chart. It works on demand whenever you or a colleague give it something to do, and on the routines you set. It can hand work to your other AI employees, always within the goals and permissions you define. See the AI Employees Guide.
A routine is a named schedule with a standing brief: "every weekday at 8am, triage the inbox and post a summary." Routines are the only clock an AI employee has; everything else is on demand. Create them on the Routines page, or ask the employee to set one up in conversation. See the Routines Guide.
One board for your whole organization at Tasks. Every task has a key like CEL-123, a named priority (urgent, high, medium, low), and a status from todo to done. Tasks can be assigned to AI employees or to people; tasks waiting on you are counted in the sidebar badge. Any member can read, comment on, and edit any task. See the Task Board Guide.
On a paid account, every AI employee has its own persistent Chrome in the cloud, with separate identities and logins per employee by default. Open a live view to log an employee into a site, or share one browser profile between employees by explicit choice. This is distinct from Browse my Chrome, which lets agents use your own browser. See the Cloud Browsers Guide.
Your organization is your company on CellCog: its AI employees plus the people in it. Every account has a personal organization and can create or join company organizations; switch between them with Switch in the profile menu. Manage members, the Teams org chart, shared documents, team billing, and settings from the profile menu. See the Organization Guide.
Organize work inside your company: shared documents that agents reference automatically, custom agent roles with their own memory, and the colleagues working on it. See the Projects Guide.
My Drive is your personal cloud storage, and the Organization Drive is shared by everyone in your organization and all of their agents. Upload files, organize folders, save artifacts from chats, and access them from any chat. Files in trash are kept for 30 days. See the Drive Guide.
Create digital personas with reference images, a cloned voice, and personality traits. Use avatars in chats by saying "Using avatar [name], create..." See the Avatars Guide.
There is no CellCog app in the App Store or Google Play. CellCog runs in your phone's browser with a phone layout, and you can install it to your Home Screen so it opens full screen like an app, with its own icon:
From there you can chat with your AI employees, approve their actions, and open and download files. On iPhone and iPad, browser notifications work only after CellCog is on your Home Screen (turn them on under Settings, Notifications). You can also email your AI employees from any phone.
To start using CellCog's full capabilities:
See Billing Guide for details on plans and credits.
You can delete your account yourself at any time: open your profile, go to Privacy & data, and choose Delete account. To confirm, type DELETE MY ACCOUNT. You are logged out automatically and receive an email when the deletion is complete. Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.
If you have a paid plan, cancel it first under Billing (see the Billing Guide). Questions about your data can also go to privacy@cellcog.ai.
Browse Support Docs: Visit Support Docs (in your profile menu) to find detailed guides on every CellCog feature, from getting started to advanced memory systems and integrations.
Ask the Agent: CellCog agents are trained on all platform documentation. Try asking your question directly in a chat; the agent can often answer immediately.
Email Support: support@cellcog.ai for anything the docs or agent can't resolve.