Your First Week
The first week with an agent should feel useful, not mystical.
You're not unlocking a hidden superpower. You're building a working relationship. The fastest way to do that is give the agent real work, correct it clearly, and let the usefulness compound.
Three things are worth doing in week one.
Have three real conversations. Not tests, not riddles — actual assignments that save you time or sharpen your thinking. Ask for a thread summary. Ask for first-pass research. Ask for a draft reply. Ask for a clean rundown of what changed on a project. The point is to expose the agent to your actual work.
Give it one recurring responsibility. Pick something small but real. Maybe it watches a project thread for important changes. Maybe it prepares a daily summary. Maybe it keeps tabs on a workflow that tends to go stale when nobody owns it. Recurring work is where the agent starts feeling less like a chatbot and more like part of the team.
Share your preferences early. Tell the agent how you like things shaped — short or detailed, direct or softer, recommendation first or context first, bullets or prose. These aren't cosmetic preferences. They're part of the working agreement, and early clarity makes everything smoother.
Expect more questions at the beginning. That's normal.
In week one, the agent doesn't yet know the business deeply. It may not know which deadline matters more, which stakeholder cares about tone, or which project is louder than it is urgent. So it asks more often. Sometimes it over-explains. Sometimes it misses what you thought was obvious. Sometimes it answers the request correctly while missing what would have been most useful.
That's not failure — it's calibration.
The best mental model is a capable intern with unusually broad range. On day one it can already help. By the end of the first week it should understand your preferences better, ask better questions, and need less hand-holding on familiar work. By week four, if you've used it well, it starts to feel less like "the new person" and more like a colleague who has context.
What accelerates that? Honest corrections.
"This was too long." "Good summary, but next time give me the recommendation first." "You focused on the loudest issue, not the most important one."
That's not nitpicking. It's how the agent gets calibrated to you specifically instead of operating in generic default mode.
Keep week one practical. Three real conversations. One recurring responsibility. Share your preferences. Notice what creates leverage immediately. Everything happens through Telegram — you don't need to tune any machinery. Your part is the direction, the context, and the corrections. The payoff comes from repetition.