Quickstart

From signup to your agent’s first brief in about five minutes. No implementation project, no onboarding call.

1. Sign up

Go to waveguide.adwave.com/signup, enter your email and company name, pick a plan, and complete checkout. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial — your card is collected but nothing is charged until day 15.

Within a minute you’ll receive a welcome email with a sign-in link. Waveguide uses email sign-in links instead of passwords: there’s nothing to remember and nothing to leak. The welcome link is valid for 24 hours; you can always request a fresh one from the sign-in page.

2. The guided setup

Your first sign-in drops you into a five-step setup:

1. About your business — name, website, industry, what “growth” means for you (leads, sales, or bookings), and your timezone. This seeds your agent’s persona so its first actions make sense.
2. Connect accounts — one OAuth click each for Gmail, Google Calendar, Meta Ads, or Stripe. You can start with just one and add more later. See Connections for what the agent does with each.
3. Guardrails — your daily ad-spend cap (default: $0, meaning the agent can’t spend at all) and an approval strictness preset. See Approvals.
4. Reporting channel — where the agent should talk to you: Slack, Telegram, and/or email. Email is on by default so you never miss an approval. See Channels.
5. Meet your agent — it runs a first session, looks at what you’ve connected, and delivers its first brief.

Every step except the first is skippable, and your progress is saved server-side — close the tab and pick up where you left off.

3. Daily life with Waveguide

After setup, the agent runs on its own:

• It wakes on real signals — a lead arrives, a campaign crosses a threshold, a scheduled digest fires. It doesn’t poll or burn budget when nothing is happening.
• It sends a morning brief with what happened, what it did, and what needs you.
• When it wants to do something risky — spend money, send an external message — it sends an approval card. You approve or deny with one click from Slack, Telegram, email, or the dashboard. If you do nothing, the request expires safely in 15 minutes and the agent moves on.
• Everything it does is in the Activity log, down to individual tool calls.

Where things live

Next steps

• How it works — the architecture in plain language
• Approvals & policies — teach the agent what it may do alone
• Persona — tune how your agent thinks and writes