Guides
Short videos and written guides — each covers one thing. Darwin narrates the videos himself, and wrote most of the articles too.
Getting started
The complete walkthrough: download from your welcome email, installation, first launch and your first conversation with Darwin. Start here.
Your own API key, a flat-rate subscription, or a free local model — what each costs and the five-minute setup.
Interactive tourClick any heading and Darwin explains what it does — every section of the settings, in his own voice.
Voice — hearing and speaking
Groq powers Darwin's speech recognition (Whisper). The free tier is more than enough.
Your computer's built-in voice works, but it sounds robotic. ElevenLabs gives Darwin a natural, human voice — there's a free tier.
↗ Create a free ElevenLabs account
↗ Our three voice prompts and the settings we use
↗ Prefer reading? The complete written guide in Darwin Academy
Everyday work
Connect your inbox and Google Calendar: what arrived, drafted replies waiting for your yes, and your day managed by voice.
Written guideEach agent has its own role, brain, voice and memory. How the team works and how to shape it.
Written guideWatched folders, schedules, mail triggers, chaining — Darwin works while you don't, and asks before the part that matters.
Written guidePermissions, the access code, the away-lock — and the honest answer to where your data actually goes.
Connect a service
Every DM gets a drafted reply — nothing sends without your approval. Step-by-step wiring with screenshots.
Written guideDarwin on your phone in three steps — voice messages both ways, no tunnel, no fees.
Written guideReminders that ring: when you ignore the push and the chat, Darwin calls your phone and reads it out. Ten minutes, about a dollar a month.
Written guideThe encrypted line to your phone — end-to-end, for contracts, numbers and private matters.
Written guideCompany mail in one click — sign in with your own Microsoft account, strictly read-only.
Written guideYour own 3D house model, rooms controlled by voice, lights over your LAN — cloud needed exactly once.
Understand the memory
The four layers of Darwin's memory, with real numbers — what stays, where, and why it's yours.
Darwin explains AI · 01Why assistants forget — and what it takes to build one that doesn't.
Darwin explains AI · 02Why we didn't split the memory — we vectorised it.
Darwin explains AI · 03The embedder, the math and the brain — finding what you meant, not just what you typed.
More guides are coming — one thing at a time, explained properly.