Quickstart

This walks the shortest path that produces something real: an account, a project, and an AIRA-generated programme you have reviewed and accepted. Budget about fifteen minutes.

1. Create your account

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   Sign in or sign up

   Go to spacesync.app. You can use an email address and password, Google, Microsoft, or your organisation's single sign-on when an admin has set it up. If you were invited to an organisation, follow the link in the invitation — it brings you back to the organisation once you are signed in.

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   Verify your email

   With an email address and password, we send a verification link. It has to be clicked before the account is fully active — if it has not arrived in five minutes, check spam. Accounts created through Google, Microsoft or single sign-on are verified already.

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   Land on your dashboard

   New accounts start on the free plan with personal projects. Everything below works there.

2. Create a project

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   Open My Projects

   It is the first item in the left sidebar. Inside an organisation, use Home or the New button instead — see Organisation projects for the choice of where a project lives.

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   Click New project

   Give it a name and a project type — residential, commercial, and so on. The type shapes the defaults AIRA reasons from, so it is worth setting honestly.

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   Describe the brief

   A paragraph is enough to start. You are not committing to it — the brief is editable at every later step, and AIRA will ask about the gaps rather than silently inventing answers.

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   Attach what you already have

   Site drawings, a client brief, a spreadsheet of areas. Anything you attach becomes context AIRA can read. See Importing files.

3. Run AIRA

Open the project and go to AIRA. It moves through three stages, and you review the output of each before it moves on.

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   Context

   AIRA confirms what it understands about the site and the brief, and asks about anything material that is missing. Correct it here — every later stage inherits this.

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   Departments

   It proposes the spatial programme: departments, the rooms inside them, and areas. Edit any number, add or remove rooms, then accept.

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   Adjacency

   It works out which departments want to be near each other and lays that out as a bubble diagram and a stacking arrangement. Drag things around if you disagree.

The finale is the Boards wall — the whole programme as a set of reviewable boards. From there the work is ready to carry into a drawing.

4. Draw it

Open an iteration and pick a module. SpaceDesign is where most projects go next — draw walls and spaces over the programme, in 2D or 3D. Work saves continuously, and versions let you snapshot a state you might want back.

5. Bring someone in

Invite a colleague from the project header. They will need an account, and the role you give them decides what they can do — see Roles and permissions. Two people can be in the same drawing simultaneously; edits merge live.