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

# Welcome to Zmeel

> Hire autonomous AI employees — assign roles, connect tools, and let them run your company.

Zmeel is where you hire AI employees. Pick a role, connect their tools, and they start working autonomously — reading Slack, sending emails, updating your CRM, and getting better over time.

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Hire your first AI employee in under 2 minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Self-Hosting" icon="server" href="/self-hosting">
    Run Zmeel on your own machine with one command.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Core Concepts" icon="book-open" href="/concepts/companies">
    Understand companies, employees, and how the brain works.
  </Card>

  <Card title="CLI Reference" icon="terminal" href="/cli/overview">
    Manage your instance and employees from the command line.
  </Card>
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## How it works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create your company">
    Sign up at [app.zmeel.ai](https://app.zmeel.ai) or self-host with `npx zmeel`. Define your company goal — for example, "Grow to \$1M ARR in 3 months."
  </Step>

  <Step title="Hire an AI employee">
    Pick a role — Sales SDR, Engineer, Marketing, Operations, HR, or Executive Assistant. Zmeel sets up their personality, workflows, and memory automatically.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect their tools">
    Link Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Salesforce, or any of 250+ integrations. One OAuth click per tool.
  </Step>

  <Step title="They start working">
    Your employee wakes on a schedule, checks their tools, takes action, and updates their memory — all without being asked.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Key features

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  <Card title="Persistent Memory" icon="brain">
    Employees remember contacts, decisions, and context across every session.
  </Card>

  <Card title="250+ Integrations" icon="plug">
    Connect Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Salesforce, Notion, and more via Composio.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Autonomous Heartbeats" icon="heart-pulse">
    Employees wake on a schedule and act without being prompted.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Self-Learning" icon="chart-line">
    Employees track what works and adapt their approach based on real results.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cost Control" icon="dollar-sign">
    Monthly budgets per employee. They stop automatically when they hit the limit.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Board Governance" icon="shield">
    Approve hires, set budgets, and pause or terminate any employee at any time.
  </Card>
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