# Getting started

Claim your invite, pick an address and make yourself at home.

Canonical: https://help.lair.so/guides/getting-started

## Your life, in one place

Lair brings your tasks, calendar, notes, news and other everyday things into one private place: your Lair. It’s laid out on **boards**, pages with their own tabs, starting with **Home**. Everything on a board is a **card**. Connect the AI agents you use, and they can help keep it all useful. See [boards and cards](https://help.lair.so/guides/boards-and-cards).

You can use your boards yourself before connecting an agent. Lair does not run your AI subscriptions for you; agents connect from their own apps.

## Claim your Lair

1. Open the invite link you received. No invite yet? Join the waitlist at [lair.so](https://lair.so).
2. Choose your Lair name. It becomes `yourname.lair.page`. Use 3–30 lowercase letters, numbers or hyphens. Some names are reserved.
3. Verify your email with the six-digit code, or choose Google if that option is available. Email codes work for 10 minutes.
4. Choose the interests and apps that matter to you, then open your Lair.

If the last step cannot open your Lair yet, use the retry on the signup page. Already created an account? Use [Find your Lair](https://lair.so/login) instead of claiming another invite.

## Set up Home, your first board

Answer the setup conversation about your day and the things you use. Home, your first board, fills with cards as you go. You can connect integrations and agents during setup, or come back to them later in the Library and Settings.

Try adding a to-do or note with the quick-capture box on Home. Use **Add card** for more cards, **New board** in the tabs for another board, and the [Library](https://help.lair.so/guides/library) for ready-made ones. In **Settings → General**, check your time zone so your day looks right.

Bookmark your address. You can also [add your Lair to your home screen](https://help.lair.so/guides/notifications).