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Getting Started

This section gets you from "never heard of Bolti" to "my team is shipping voice agents". Plan for about 30 minutes end-to-end — most of that is reading and decision-making, not setup.

The path​

Work through these in order. Each one builds on the last:

  1. Quick Start (5 min) — Sign up, create your first agent with the wizard, and talk to it in your browser. The fastest way to feel the product.
  2. Workspaces & Organizations (5 min) — How resources are scoped in Bolti. Worth understanding before you create more agents, especially if you'll work in a team.
  3. Understanding Providers (10 min) — STT, LLM, TTS, and Telephony providers — what they are, how Bolti uses them, when to bring your own keys vs use Bolti's defaults.
  4. Invite Your Team (5 min) — Add teammates, assign roles per workspace, and handoff ownership safely.

If you skim only one of these, make it the Quick Start. If you do all four, you'll have a working agent and a fully set-up account by the time you're done.

Two ways to think about onboarding​

Pick whichever framing matches how you work.

"I want to ship something today"​

Do the Quick Start. You'll have an agent you can call within 5 minutes. Come back to the rest of this section after you've seen it work.

"I want to do this properly the first time"​

Read Workspaces & Organizations first. Decide whether you want one workspace or many (e.g. production + staging, or one per client). Then do the Quick Start inside the workspace you actually want to use. Then invite your team before they need it.

Both paths get you to the same place. The first is faster; the second saves a small amount of cleanup later.

Signing up​

Bolti accounts are free to create. Sign in at:

https://app.bolti.co.in

You can sign in with:

  • Email + password (with email verification)
  • Google (one click)

On first sign-in, Bolti automatically creates:

  • An organization (your top-level account — usually your company)
  • A default workspace inside that organization
  • An owner membership for your account

Everything you build — agents, phone numbers, tools, call logs — lives inside that workspace. You can rename the org and the workspace at any time from the dashboard.

Linking sign-in methods

If you sign up with email/password and later use Google with the same email (or vice versa), Bolti links them to a single account. You won't end up with duplicate accounts as long as the email matches.

What's free, what's paid​

You can do all of this without spending anything:

  • Create an account, an organization, and as many workspaces as you need
  • Build, edit, and delete agents
  • Test agents in the browser via the Preview tab
  • Wire up workspace tools and connect external services
  • Browse the dashboard, the API, and the MCP server

You start paying when you place real phone calls — outbound or inbound — because every minute consumes STT, LLM, and TTS credits plus telephony charges. The pricing page breaks down exactly how the per-minute cost is calculated.

You can also bring your own API keys for any provider, in which case Bolti charges only the platform fee and the provider bills you directly. See the Providers guide.

You're done with onboarding when…​

Use this as a personal checklist:

  • You've signed up and your default workspace exists
  • You've created at least one agent (Quick Start)
  • You've talked to that agent in the Preview tab
  • You understand whether you'll use one workspace or many
  • You've decided which providers to use (Bolti defaults vs BYO keys)
  • Your teammates are invited (if working in a team)
  • You've made one real phone call — outbound to your own number — to confirm telephony works end-to-end

The last item is the real "I'm ready for production" check. Until you've heard your agent on a real phone line, you don't really know how it sounds.

Where to go after onboarding​

Once the checklist above is green, the next stops depend on what you're building:

If you want to…Go here
Tune the agent's behavior, voice, or transcriptionAgent Setup
Let the agent take action mid-call (CRM, calendars, your APIs)Tool Calling
Receive incoming calls or run outbound campaigns at scaleCalling and Telephony
Have the agent answer questions from your docsKnowledge Bases
Drive Bolti from Cursor or Claude DesktopBolti MCP Server
Build an integration over our REST APIAPI Reference →

If you get stuck anywhere in this section, the FAQ covers the most common questions, and the Quick Start has a troubleshooting block at the bottom.

Ready? Start with the Quick Start →.