First Steps

This guide walks you through your first experience with HypLab, from signing up to viewing your first generated people and personas.

Step 1: Sign up

1. Open http://localhost:4090 in your browser.
2. Click Sign Up and create your account.
3. You will be prompted to create your first organization.

Step 2: Create your organization

1. Enter your organization name (for example, "My Company" or "My Agency").
2. The system automatically creates a default workspace for you.
3. You become the organization Owner and workspace Admin.

What you should see: You land on the main dashboard with your organization name in the sidebar.

Step 3: Complete workspace onboarding

The onboarding wizard asks a few questions to help HypLab understand your context:

• Company context -- what your company does
• Industry -- what industry you are in
• Target audience -- whether you are targeting businesses (B2B) or consumers (B2C)
• Use case -- why you want to use HypLab

Be as specific as you can. The more detail you provide, the better the AI-generated templates will match your needs.

What you should see: A short questionnaire, usually 4-6 questions.

Step 4: Review generated templates

After you finish onboarding, HypLab's AI generates 5 dynamic templates tailored to your answers. For example, if you said you run a B2B SaaS company targeting enterprise buyers, you might see templates like:

• "Enterprise Decision Maker"
• "IT Security Lead"
• "Budget-Conscious Startup Founder"

Each template shows:

• A name and description
• The number of people fields it will populate
• The number of persona fields it will populate
• Whether it's B2B or B2C

You can expand a template to see exactly which fields it uses.

What you should see: A list of 5 template cards on the Templates page.

Step 5: Generate your first people

1. Navigate to the Templates page.
2. Pick a template that interests you.
3. Click "Generate People".
4. Choose how many people to generate (1 to 10). Start with 3-5.
5. Click "Generate" and wait a few seconds.

What happens behind the scenes:

• The AI generates realistic person records using only the fields specified in the template.
• The system checks if a persona already exists for this template.
• If no persona exists, it creates one with an AI-suggested name.
• The generated people are linked to the persona.

What you should see: A success message. The generated people now appear on the People page, and the persona appears on the Personas page.

Step 6: Explore the results

View your people

Go to the People page. You will see a list of the people you just generated. Click on any person to see their full profile -- all the fields organized by group (Identity, Demographics, Transactions, etc.).

View your persona

Go to the Personas page. Click on the persona that was created. You will see:

• The persona's characteristics (buyer profile, triggers, obstacles, etc.)
• A list of the people linked to this persona

What to try next

Now that you have your first data, here are some things to explore:

• Generate more people from the same or different templates
• Create a person manually -- go to People and click "Create Person"
• Create a custom template -- design your own field selection
• Add custom fields -- extend the standard fields with workspace-specific ones
• Create additional workspaces -- set up separate environments for different projects

Tips for getting started

• Start small. Generate 3-5 people first to understand how templates work before generating larger batches.
• Review the fields. Expand a template before generating to see exactly what data it will produce.
• Try both B2B and B2C. If your onboarding generated both types, compare the differences.
• Edit generated data. AI-generated people can be edited manually -- treat them as a starting point.

Next: People -- learn how to manage people records in detail.