First launch, and Frank

What you'll get. Open E:Voice for the first time, find your way around the five tabs, and meet the guide who lives on the Status screen.

The first few minutes

The app opens on a short splash, then hands you to Frank, who walks you through setup one card at a time. You are not filling in a form — he explains a thing, you press a button, you move on.

1. A note from Dan. The first card is a letter from the person who built the app. It says plainly that this is a beta: “You'll find bugs, unfinished features, and rough edges. That's expected.”
2. Pick your look. Default Dark or Default Light. You can change it any time — chapter 09.
3. Make an E:Voice account. Create one free, or sign in. Then confirm the email.
4. Connect something for Frank to think with. The card is called “Give Frank a brain to think with”, and it takes you to provider setup. You can skip it for now and come back — chapter 04.
5. Memory, Tailscale, background. Three optional cards: turn on AERIS Node memory, set up a private network for agents on your own machines, and decide whether E:Voice stays available while the phone is locked. All three can be skipped.
6. Explore. The last card is a grid of shortcuts — Voice options, Appearance, Image Studio, API Key Vault, Projects, Pair first agent, Frank chat. Tap Finish tutorial and you are in.

The five tabs

Everything is reachable from the bar along the bottom.

• Status — the morning look. Frank's briefing, then a Command Center counting what is running, in progress and blocked, then today's calendar. There is an “Advanced diagnostics · Show technical status” row at the bottom for when something feels wrong.
• Bridge — who you can talk to, and where they run. Frank sits at the top as the overseer; below him are the Top Foreman slot and numbered runtime seats waiting to be filled. Chapter 07 fills one.
• Projects — where work gets a home instead of scrolling away. Chapter 06.
• Chat — your conversations.
• Settings — account, providers, voice, appearance, everything else.

Those five are fixed, but the order is yours, and there are more tabs you can add: API Key Vault, Gallery, Docs, Memory, Skills, Calendar, Email and Charles. Settings lets you slot them in — locked tabs can be moved but not removed.

Who Frank is

Frank is described in the app as a “TaskSmith / user-facing app guide”. In practice he is the person you talk to when you don't know who to talk to. He can hold a normal conversation, read the app's own memory, look at what the runtimes are doing, use the app's tools, and hand work to another agent when you ask him to.

After setup he doesn't go away. He becomes a small bubble you can tap from most screens, and he knows which screen you are on — ask him about the page you're looking at and he'll answer about that page. The bubble is a toggle: “Frank helper inside E:Voice” in Settings. Closing the bubble and opening Chat continues the same conversation; it isn't a separate assistant.

The rest of the native crew

Three more agents ship with the app and cost nothing to talk to.

• Odin, the AERIS Bridge Foreman — owns a job from the moment you describe it to the moment it is verified done.
• Vera, a personal assistant — keeps you oriented and tracks what you said you would do.
• Charles, operations lead — turns intent into concrete work and gives one honest answer about where things stand.

They are part of the platform rather than the point of it. The agents you bring — a provider account, or a runtime on your own computer — are the ones most people end up using every day.