Getting started
Sprawl runs your operations for you. Describe the outcome you want in plain English and Sprawl provisions an agent — connecting the right accounts and wiring the schedule or triggers — then runs it across your tools. You don't build a workflow or babysit a chat. This guide takes you from a fresh account to your first agent running on its own.
1Create your account
Sign up at sprawl.to/sign-up — every account starts with a 14-day free trial that includes 50 credits, no credit card required. A credit is a measure of computing work: a typical task your agents run costs about one credit, metered exactly — fractions of a credit, never rounded up (details on the pricing page).
2Make a project for each thing you run
A project is one operation, cleanly walled off — its own connected accounts and its own fleet of agents. Running a business and a side project? Five separate clients? Give each its own project, with a different Gmail, Slack, or X per project, so nothing bleeds across. Switch between them like tabs; agency-grade isolation is built in.
Connections, agents, schedules, and approvals all live inside the project you set them up in — so work for one client never touches another's accounts.
3Connect the tools you already use
Inside a project, open Connections and link the tools you want that project's agents to work in — Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, and 100+ more. Connect an app as many times as you need: a different Gmail, Slack, or X per project. Each connection uses that service's own OAuth consent screen, so you see exactly what access you're granting, and you can disconnect any tool at any time.
You don't need to connect everything up front. Start with the one or two tools your first task touches.
4Say what you want done
Describe the outcome you want, the way you'd brief a colleague:
- “Summarize the unread emails in my inbox and draft replies to the two most important.”
- “Every weekday at 8am, post yesterday's signups to #metrics in Slack.”
- “When a new lead lands in HubSpot, enrich it and create a follow-up task.”
Sprawl provisions an agent for the job, plans the steps, calls the connected tools, and shows you what it's doing as it works — each agent running on the model that fits the job, whether that's from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. There are no flowcharts to build and no fields to map.
5Approve what matters — you stay in control
Actions are classified by risk. Routine reads and drafts run without friction; riskier actions — like sending an email on your behalf — are held in your approval inbox until you approve or reject them, and your decision is recorded. The highest-risk category of actions cannot run autonomously at all. If you reject something, Sprawl takes the feedback and adjusts instead of repeating the attempt.
6Put it on autopilot
Any task can become a standing automation: schedule it (“every weekday at 8am”) or trigger it on events (“when a new payment lands”). Scheduled and event-triggered runs use the same approval rules and the same credit metering as any other run — autonomy never widens what the agent is allowed to do.
7Watch your usage
Need help?
The fastest way to get unstuck is to ask Sprawl itself — in the app, describe what you're trying to do and it will walk you through it. The FAQ covers common questions about plans, credits, security, and integrations.