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Getting Started

Appilot helps you complete complex web tasks by providing intelligent, context-aware assistance directly on the page you're working on.

Closed beta

Appilot is not generally available. You need an account issued by invitation, so if your organization has not given you one, start at appilot.space rather than here.

Step 1: Install the Extension​

There is no Chrome Web Store listing while the beta is closed. A public listing would invite people who have no invitation and cannot sign in, so the extension is handed out as a .zip you install yourself, from appilot.space/downloads.

Arrange your test run with us first

The download page carries the condition the file is handed out under. Tell us before you install it and we will agree what you point it at and when. Anyone who installs it and uses it outside that arrangement does so on their own responsibility, under the beta terms.

  1. Download the .zip from appilot.space/downloads
  2. Unpack it into a folder you intend to keep. Chrome loads the extension from that folder on every start, so moving or deleting it uninstalls the extension
  3. Open chrome://extensions in the address bar
  4. Turn on Developer mode (toggle in the top right)
  5. Click Load unpacked and choose the folder you unpacked

An extension loaded this way never updates itself. When a new build ships, download it again and replace the folder. Chrome will also warn you at startup that developer-mode extensions are installed, which is expected here.

Organizations that deploy the extension to their own fleet have a second route, described in Enterprise deployment.

Step 2: Sign in​

  1. Click the Appilot floating button that appears on any webpage (bottom-right corner)
  2. The side panel opens. Click Sign In. Your Appilot account page opens in a new tab
  3. Sign in the way you normally do: your password, Google, or your organization's single sign-on. Confirm that it is your account
  4. The sign-in tab closes and you are back on the page you started from, with the assistant ready to help

If your account page will not open, select Use a password instead under the button. It opens the extension's own sign-in form.

Your organization issues the account. There is no public sign-up while Appilot is in closed beta: registration accepts an invitation, and requests go through the waitlist at appilot.space.

Step 3: Ask your first question​

Navigate to any web page and open the Appilot panel. Two kinds of page have no panel: a site you paused Appilot on, and Appilot's own sites. The public site, this documentation and the Appilot consoles (My Account and the Backoffice) are documents and admin tools rather than applications the assistant can operate, so it stays off them.

Try asking:

  • "What should I enter in this form?"
  • "What does this field mean?"
  • "How do I complete this process?"

Appilot reads the page context: forms, fields, labels, navigation. Answers come from your organization's knowledge base.

What happens behind the scenes​

When you interact with Appilot:

  1. The extension captures the page context of the tab you asked from: forms, fields, page structure. Password, one-time-code, payment-card and hidden fields are withheld from every read
  2. Your question and that context are sent to the Appilot backend, along with anything you pinned as Always Present in My Context
  3. The AI finds relevant knowledge from your organization's knowledge base and uploaded documents
  4. You receive an answer grounded in that knowledge and the page context

Next steps​