Sign in to Alpha
Alpha signs you in with an account you already have. The sign-in screen shows Continue with Google and Continue with Microsoft. Each button goes straight to that provider’s own account chooser and comes back to Alpha. Microsoft accepts work, school and personal accounts. There is no Alpha password to create or remember. A sign-in lasts 30 days from the moment you sign in. After that, Alpha shows the sign-in screen again. Within those 30 days, reloading the page opens Alpha at once, and signing in or out in one tab updates your other tabs too.If you see only one of the two buttons, the other isn’t turned on for your Alpha. If you see “Sign-in isn’t available at this address.” instead of any button, you’ve opened Alpha at an address its sign-in providers don’t accept. Open it at its usual address, such as https://alpha.new.
If you’re on the waitlist
Your Alpha can be limited to a list of approved email addresses. If you sign in with an address that isn’t on the list yet, Alpha still creates your account, then holds it on the waitlist screen until an admin approves it. Nothing else opens in the meantime. The screen reads “Request received” and “You’re on the waitlist”, shows the account you signed in with, and says the team has been told you’re here.
Admins approve waiting accounts from the Admin dashboard, on the Users tab, where each one carries a waiting chip and an Approve button.
What happens on your first visit
The first time the home screen opens in a tab, a short intro plays: the Lyzr mark draws itself and “Alpha” is written across the screen. Any click or key skips it, and a key you press still reaches the composer, so you can start typing straight away. It doesn’t play again in that tab, and it never plays if your system is set to reduce motion. Next, Alpha asks one question, “What best describes your work?”, and offers a list of roles from Product management to Other. Pick one and press Continue, or press Skip. Either way, the question doesn’t come back on any device. Closing the dialog counts as skipping. You can change the answer later in Settings.Find everything in the account menu
Click your name (or your email, if your account has no name) at the bottom of the sidebar to open the account menu. In guest mode the badge reads Guest. Each row opens the page or dialog that owns it.
The connected-accounts row reads Sign in with ChatGPT when your Alpha doesn’t run Claude Code, and a dot on its icon means one of those plans is signed in. Send feedback shows only when your Alpha collects feedback, and only to signed-in accounts.
Sign out
Open the account menu and choose Sign out. The page reloads to the sign-in screen, and your other tabs sign out with it. Your sessions keep running on the server, so a turn in progress carries on and you can pick it up after signing in again.Change your settings
The Settings page holds two preferences. Both are saved to your account, so they follow you to every device and browser.
Settings holds two rows: New messages and your answer to the work question.
To choose between queueing and steering for a particular message, see Queue, steer or stop. Choices that belong to one session, such as the agent, model, effort and permissions, are set in the composer, not here.
Using Alpha without an account
Some Alphas, usually local or test installs, run in guest mode. There is no sign-in screen: each browser gets its own guest identity, the account badge reads Guest, and there is no Sign out row. Everyone sees the Admin row, and sharing a session with specific people isn’t available, because there are no account emails to share with. If that Alpha later switches to accounts, the first time you sign in from the same browser your guest work moves to your account in one step. That covers your sessions and their published apps, your global secrets (including keys you pasted for integrations), your GitHub connection and your Claude sign-in. Your ChatGPT sign-in doesn’t move, so sign in to it again from Sign in with ChatGPT/Claude. Setups you saved as a guest don’t move either, and stop showing in your list.Sign-in messages
When a Google or Microsoft sign-in doesn’t complete, Alpha brings you back to the sign-in screen with the reason in red above the buttons. On an Alpha that signs you in with Google directly, the reason appears instead on a plain page under “Couldn’t sign in with Google.”, with a Back to Alpha link.
For problems after you’re signed in, see Troubleshooting and FAQ.
Next steps
Usage, costs and your own plan
See what each session spent, and run the agent on your ChatGPT or Claude plan.
The home screen
Where you land after signing in, and where every session starts.
Secrets
Add API keys once as global secrets, and every session you own can use them.
Queue, steer or stop
When to pick each, whatever your New messages setting says.