Your first hour with Ava
From install to your first build, your first lesson, and the moment she starts remembering you. A gentle, no-jargon walkthrough for your first sitting.
Ava is an AI that actually does things — builds, writes, teaches, designs, and remembers you — and she works wherever you do. This is your first hour: enough to feel what she is, without any jargon.
Install and open
Add the VS Code extension from the Marketplace, or grab the desktop app, and open the chat panel. You start on 300 free credits a month — no card — or plug in your own model keys, even a fully local one, and pay nothing at all.
Just talk to her
Type a real question in plain English — "what does this file do?", "why is my page blank?", "what even is a database?". She answers in normal language and holds the thread.
Ask her to build something
Describe what you want — "a button that downloads my notes" — and she plans it, writes it, and shows you every change before it happens. Nothing lands without your yes.
Learn something — free
Type ?? and a topic ("teach me Python from zero", "teach me Italian") and she builds you a real course with lessons and quizzes. Teaching is free, forever.
She starts remembering
As you work, Ava quietly learns your project, your preferences, and the decisions you make — and carries them into the next session. Come back tomorrow and she picks up where you left off. That continuity is the thing no other tool gives you.
Where to next
- Run her for $0 on your own hardware.
- Understand how her memory works.
- Switch mindsets with modes — Plan, Teach, Security, Write and more.