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Set up without a developer

Describe your business. Get a working agent.

No prompt engineering, no config files, no ticket to your IT person. Two or three steps, in your own words — and you see exactly what gets created before anything is created.

One sentence about your business is enough to start
We draft who it is and what it does — you approve it
The one thing you write yourself is what it must never do
Nothing is created until you have read it on the review step

The blocker was never the idea

Most owners of a small business already know what their agent should do. They know the five questions customers ask before booking, the two that waste an afternoon, and the answer that has to be exactly right every time.

What stopped them was everything between that knowledge and a working agent: prompts, tools, retrieval settings, a config file, and usually a developer who is busy until next month.

You describe it. We draft it.

Say what your business is in one sentence — the way you would explain it to a new hire, not the way you would write a specification. That is enough for a first draft.

From that sentence the wizard drafts who the agent is, what it does, how it should handle the conversation, and how your documents should be organised for it to search. You read the draft and change anything that is wrong.

The one line we won't write for you

There is exactly one thing the wizard leaves blank on purpose: what the agent must never do.

Never quote a price without a survey. Never promise a delivery date. Never give advice that needs a qualified person. That line depends on how your business carries risk, and nobody outside it can write it honestly — so it is required, and it is yours.

This is also why the boundary is a separate step rather than an optional setting. A limit that is easy to skip is a limit that gets skipped, and it is the field that matters most on the day something goes wrong.

Nothing is created until you have read it

The last step shows the finished agent in full before it exists: the role, the task, the boundary, the knowledge bases it will use. Approve it and it is created; go back and change it as many times as you like first.

You are not committing to it, either. Everything the wizard wrote stays editable — the first version is a starting point, not a decision you are stuck with.

Frequently asked

Do I need a developer to set up an agent on agent4.io?
No. The setup wizard in agent4.io asks for a plain-language description of your business and drafts the agent from it — the instructions, the workflow and the knowledge-base structure are written for you. There is no code, no prompt engineering and no configuration file at any step.
What do I actually have to write myself?
One sentence describing your business, and the boundary — the line saying what the agent must never do. agent4.io deliberately does not draft the boundary for you, because it is the one decision only the business owner can make, and it is required before the agent can be created.
What if my trade is not on the template list?
Describe it in your own words instead. agent4.io drafts a custom agent from that description, and the templates are only a shortcut for common cases — they are not a limit on what the agent can be built for.
Can I see what will be created before it is created?
Yes. The final step of the agent4.io wizard shows the whole agent — who it is, what it does, what it must never do, and which knowledge bases it will use — and nothing is created until you confirm it there.
How long does it take to get a first working agent?
A few minutes. The agent4.io wizard is two or three steps depending on whether you start from a template, and the result is a working agent you can talk to immediately and refine afterwards.
Can I change the agent after it has been created?
Yes. Everything the agent4.io setup wizard writes — the description, the boundary, the knowledge bases and the name — stays editable afterwards, so the first version is a starting point rather than a commitment.
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