Getting started

Telsi gives you a personal AI assistant that lives in Telegram and runs on its own isolated instance — dedicated resources, no shared servers, no cross-tenant access. Getting from zero to a working assistant takes about ten minutes. Here is the whole path.

1. Create your account

Sign up at telsi.ai/signup with your email address. That's all we need to create your account — no Telegram details yet.

2. Subscribe

After signup you'll be taken through checkout. The Standard plan is $29/month (or $290/year) and includes 20,000 messages per month, smart model routing, and your own dedicated instance. Payment is handled by Stripe; we never see or store your card details.

The moment your payment confirms, Telsi provisions your instance automatically:

• A dedicated virtual machine is created just for you
• Your assistant software boots with private storage attached
• A secure domain is wired up with TLS

This usually finishes before you reach the next page. No tickets, no waiting on a human.

3. Connect your Telegram bot

Your assistant talks to you through a Telegram bot that you own. Creating one takes two minutes with Telegram's official @BotFather:

1. Open Telegram and message @BotFather
2. Send /newbot and follow the prompts to pick a name and username
3. Copy the bot token BotFather gives you
4. Paste it into the setup form in your Telsi dashboard

The token is encrypted before it ever touches our database, then injected into your instance. Within seconds your bot comes alive. The full walkthrough is in Connect your bot.

4. Start chatting

Open your bot in Telegram and say hello. Your assistant routes each message to the best-fit model among 25 LLMs — cheap, fast models for simple questions, premium models for hard ones — so you get good answers without burning your message allowance on overkill.

A few things to try first:

• Ask it to summarize a long article you paste in
• Send it a document — it gets stored in your private knowledge base
• Ask it to remember a preference ("I prefer short answers")

Where to go next

• Connect your bot — the detailed BotFather walkthrough
• The Mini App — browse your assistant's knowledge, memory, and tasks without leaving Telegram
• Knowledge & memory — how your assistant stores and recalls what you tell it
• Billing & plans — plans, message packs, and self-service billing

If you get stuck anywhere, the dashboard shows your instance status in real time.