Obsidian AI Labs

Digital Worker
Quick Start

Version 2 · May 2026
Section 01

What is a Digital Worker?

It is your own AI helper. It runs on your own server. You talk to it on Telegram. You give it work to do. It does the work and tells you when it is done.

It is not a chatbot. It is more like a teammate who does small jobs for you. The jobs add up.

Section 02

How you talk to it

You text it on Telegram. Same way you would text a friend.

You can ask it to do something. Or you can ask it a question. It reads what you wrote and writes back in the chat.

Some jobs take more than a few seconds. When that happens, it sends you small updates as it works. So you know it is doing the thing.

Section 03

What it can do without any tools

Even on day one, before you connect any of your tools, it can do a lot.

Ask it
"Look up this company and tell me what they do."
Ask it
"Read this web page and pull out the key points."
Ask it
"Help me draft a follow-up email to a customer."
Ask it
"Build me a to-do list for tomorrow and remind me at 8am."

You give it the work. It does the work. It saves what you tell it so you do not have to repeat yourself.

Section 04

What changes when you connect a tool

The worker gets more useful when you let it reach into the tools you already use. To do that, you give it the keys to those tools.

You only give it keys for the tools you want it to use. Everything else stays untouched.

Here is what changes for some common tools.

After you give it your GoDaddy API key
You can say: "Add an A record for shop pointing to 165.22.10.10 on my domain." It does it.
After you give it your DigitalOcean API key
You can say: "Spin up a small Linux server in Toronto." It does it. You get the new server's IP back in the chat.
After you connect your Gmail or Outlook
You can say: "Pull up tomorrow's calendar." Or: "Draft a reply to Sarah's last email." It reads the right thread and writes back.
After you connect your CRM
You can say: "Look up John Smith and tell me when we last talked." It pulls his record and shows you the timeline.
After you give it your Resend API key
You can say: "Send this email to my list." It sends it from your domain. You see it land in the report.
After you give it your Stripe key
You can say: "Show me last week's sales." Or: "Send a $500 invoice to this customer." It does it.
Section 05

How it remembers

It saves notes about you. Things you told it. Things you do often. Names and numbers you use a lot.

It does not save the same thing twice. It does not forget the things you told it last week.

The longer you use it, the better it gets at your work. You only have to teach it once.

Section 06

How it stays safe

Your worker runs on your own server. Nobody else uses it. Nobody else sees what is in it.

Your tool keys stay on your server. We do not see them. The tools you connect stay between you and them.

The chat is just for you and the worker. Nobody else can write to it. The page where you set it up only works from your network.

Section 07

If something feels off

If the worker does not reply, send a small message like "are you there?" Most of the time it just needs a fresh prompt.

If the worker is doing the wrong thing, tell it. "No, do this instead." It listens. It does not argue.

If you want to stop a job in the middle, say "stop". It stops.

If you want it to forget something it learned, say "forget X" and it removes that note.

Section 08

The five things to know on day one

  1. It runs on Telegram. You text it. It texts back.
  2. It works without tools. Research, writing, lists, reminders. All ready on day one.
  3. Tools unlock more. Connect Gmail, your CRM, Drive, payments. The worker reaches into them when you ask.
  4. It remembers. Tell it once. It keeps the note.
  5. It is yours. Your server. Your keys. Your notes. We do not see any of it.
Section 09

Tomorrow

Pick one job you do every week. A small job that takes you twenty minutes.

Tell your worker to do it.

Watch how it does it. Tell it what to fix. Tell it what to keep.

By next week, it will do that job for you in two minutes.

Pick the next job.

Need help? Email brandon@obsidianailabs.ca.

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