Set up your AI assistant in 10 minutes

Most "personal AI assistant" setups want you to self-host something, fight with API keys, or settle for a bot shared with a million other users. Telsi's pitch is different: you get your own isolated instance — a dedicated machine, private storage, your own Telegram bot — and the whole setup takes about ten minutes. Here's the entire path, timed.

Minute 0–2: Sign up and subscribe

Head to telsi.ai and hit Get started. Create an account with your email, then go through checkout — $29/month (or $290/year if you're already convinced), handled entirely by Stripe.

The moment payment confirms, provisioning kicks off automatically: a dedicated virtual machine spins up just for you, your assistant boots with private storage attached, and a secure domain with TLS is wired in front of it. By the time you land on the dashboard, it's usually already running.

Minute 2–5: Create your Telegram bot

Your assistant needs a face in Telegram, and that face is a bot you own. Open Telegram and message @BotFather — Telegram's official bot-creation bot:

/newbot

BotFather asks for a display name (anything you like — "Ada", "My Assistant") and a username, which must end in bot and is permanent. When you're done it hands you an API token:

1234567890:AAExampleExampleExampleExampleExample

Copy it. Treat it like a password.

Minute 5–7: Connect the bot

Back in your Telsi dashboard, the setup form is waiting for exactly this token. Paste it and submit.

Telsi encrypts the token, injects it into your instance, and your assistant starts listening on your bot. There's no webhook configuration, no server setup, nothing else to do — the paste is the whole job.

Minute 7–10: Say hello

Open your new bot in Telegram and send it a message. You'll get a reply from an assistant that routes every question across 25 models — fast, cheap models for simple stuff, premium models when the question deserves it.

Some good first moves:

• Paste a long article and ask for a summary
• Send it a document — it lands in your private knowledge base, and you can quiz it about the contents
• Set a preference: "keep answers short" — it remembers across conversations
• Tap the menu button to open the Mini App: chat, plus read-only views of everything your assistant knows, remembers, and has scheduled

What you actually got

Worth pausing on what's underneath: this isn't a row in a shared database. It's a dedicated machine with your name on it. Your documents, your assistant's memory, your conversations — all on storage attached only to your instance. No cross-tenant access, nothing used to train models.

The full reference docs live at /docs, starting with the same flow in more detail. And if you ever want out, cancellation is one click in the Stripe billing portal — no retention maze.

Ten minutes. One bot token. Your own AI assistant.