# Quickstart

Install Cowork, sign in, and hand the AI its first real piece of work. It takes about ten minutes.

## Before you begin

- A computer running macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel) or 64-bit Windows 10 or 11
- A Micromeet account. If you do not have one yet, ask your institution administrator for an invitation

## 1. Install Cowork

1. Open [crms.micromeet.ai/#/download](https://crms.micromeet.ai/#/download) and click **Download** on the card marked **Detected**.
2. On macOS, open the `.dmg` file and drag Micromeet Cowork into **Applications**. On Windows, run the `.exe` file.
3. Open Cowork.

Cowork updates itself from then on. See [Install and Update](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/install-and-update.md) for details.

## 2. Sign in

1. In the chat panel on the left, choose your **Region**: **Singapore**, **Hong Kong** or **Indonesia**.
2. Enter your **Email** and **Password**, or switch to a verification code and click **Send code**.
3. Accept the Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions and click **Sign in**.
4. If your account belongs to more than one institution, choose one and click **Continue**.

> **Not sure which region**
> Use the region your institution's administrator told you. A wrong region shows up as a wrong password or "account not found".

## 3. Give the AI a task

1. Click **New chat** at the top of the chat.
2. An empty chat shows **Start here** with a few ready-made tasks. Under **You can also ask me to…** click an example to put it in the input box, edit it, then send. **Show more** shows other examples.
3. Or type your own request and press **Enter**. Use **Shift+Enter** for a new line.
4. Watch the steps appear in the chat as the AI works. When it shows a card with a question or an approval, answer it there.

A good first request names the result you want and where to find what it needs. For example:

```text
Open the folder I attached, read the three meeting notes, and write a one-page
summary of the decisions and who owns each next step. Save it as summary.md.
```

You can add instructions while it works, or click **Stop** to take over. See [Steering, Stopping and Taking Back](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/steering.md).

## Next steps

- [How Cowork Works](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/how-cowork-works.md): Skills, AI coworkers, workspaces and how the AI decides when to ask you
- [Give Clear Instructions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/guides/clear-instructions.md): Requests that get the result you want the first time
- [Common Workflows](https://docs.micromeet.ai/guides/common-workflows.md): Complete examples, from request to result
- [Build Your First Skill](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/first-skill.md): Turn a job you did once into a method the AI repeats