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# Sign up & onboarding

This guide walks through creating your Notara account and completing the onboarding wizard. BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) is required to activate your workspace — Notara does not bundle an LLM API key.

## Creating Your Account

Navigate to [app.notara.ai](https://app.notara.ai) and choose your sign-in method:

### Email + Password

1. Click **Sign up** and enter your email address and a strong password.
2. A verification email will be sent to your inbox. Click the link to confirm.
3. You'll land on the onboarding wizard.

### Slack OAuth

1. Click **Continue with Slack** on the sign-in page.
2. Choose the workspace you want to connect.
3. Authorize Notara to install into your workspace. This both creates your account and installs the Slack app in one flow.
4. You'll land on the onboarding wizard with your workspace already connected.

> **Multi-workspace note:** If you belong to multiple Slack workspaces, you can connect additional workspaces after your account is created from the workspace switcher in the top-left corner of the dashboard.

## The Onboarding Wizard

The wizard has three steps. You must complete all three to activate your workspace.

### Step 1: Company Info

Tell Notara about your team. This information is used to seed the agent's system prompt so it understands context without you needing to explain it every time.

* **Company name** — your organization's name
* **Description** — a brief summary of what your company does (2-3 sentences)
* **Industry** — helps calibrate default skill suggestions

You can update this later at any time from **Settings → Workspace**.

### Step 2: BYOK — Add Your LLM Key

Notara requires you to provide your own LLM API key. This gives you full cost transparency — your tokens are billed directly to your provider account, and Notara counts them as credits for plan enforcement.

Supported providers:

| Provider              | Environment                    |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Anthropic (Claude)    | Recommended — best performance |
| OpenAI (GPT-4o, etc.) | Fully supported                |
| Google Gemini         | Fully supported                |
| Kimi                  | Fully supported                |
| GLM                   | Fully supported                |
| DeepSeek              | Fully supported                |

To add your key:

1. Obtain an API key from your provider's console. For Anthropic, visit [console.anthropic.com](https://console.anthropic.com).
2. Paste the key into the BYOK field.
3. Click **Verify** — Notara will make a small test call to confirm the key is valid.
4. Click **Save**.

Your key is encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM immediately upon saving. It is never logged or stored in plain text.

→ [Detailed BYOK guide](/notara-docs/byok.md)

### Step 3: Subscribe

Notara requires an active subscription to use. The Pro plan is $299/month and includes 2,500 credits (25 million tokens) per billing period.

1. Click **Subscribe**.
2. You'll be redirected to a Stripe checkout page.
3. Enter your payment details and confirm.
4. Stripe redirects you back to the dashboard with your subscription activated.

Your billing cycle starts on the day you subscribe. Credits reset at the start of each new billing period.

## After Onboarding

Once the wizard is complete, you'll land on the Notara dashboard Overview. Your next steps:

1. **Install the Slack app** (if you signed up with email+password — skip if you used Slack OAuth): go to **Settings → Workspace → Connect Slack**.
2. **Invite the bot to a channel**: type `/invite @Notara` in any Slack channel, or configure channels from **Connect → Channels** in the dashboard.
3. **Connect your first tool**: navigate to **Tools** in the sidebar and pick a connector.
4. **Build a library**: go to **Libraries** and create your first context collection.

## Re-entering or Updating Info

All onboarding information is editable after the fact:

* Company info → **Settings → Workspace**
* BYOK key → **Settings → BYOK**
* Subscription → **Settings → Billing**

## Troubleshooting

**"BYOK key invalid" error:** double-check there are no leading or trailing spaces in the key. For Anthropic, keys start with `sk-ant-`. For OpenAI, keys start with `sk-`.

**Stripe redirect fails:** ensure pop-ups are allowed for `app.notara.ai`. If the redirect loop repeats, clear cookies and try again in an incognito window.

**Slack OAuth shows wrong workspace:** make sure you're signed into the correct Slack workspace in your browser before clicking "Continue with Slack".


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