# Simular Academy

> Simular Academy is the learning hub for Sai, Simular's autonomous computer ("robosecretary"). Sai operates a real computer the way a person does: it reads the screen, moves the cursor and types, so it can work in any app without an API. It runs on your own Mac ("Sai's MacBook") or on dedicated cloud computers ("Sai's cloud"), and asks for approval before sensitive or irreversible steps.

Simular (https://www.simular.ai) builds computer-use agents. Try Sai at https://sai.simular.ai. Talk to sales or book a demo at https://dialedforms.com/f/simular/contact-sales-sai-by-simular. The full text of every guide is in https://academy.simular.ai/llms-full.txt.

## Sai Guide 101

- [Meet your robosecretary](https://academy.simular.ai/guides): Sai is a robosecretary: a computer use agent that runs a fleet of autonomous computers, works in your apps like a person, and asks before anything irreversible.
- [Computer use agent: what it is, how it works and what you can automate with one](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/computer-use-agent): What a computer use agent is, how it sees the screen and uses apps like a person, how it compares with APIs and RPA, and what you can automate with Sai.
- [Plans, usage, and limits](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/plans): Compare Sai Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise plans, see what the free plan includes, and learn how computer time is measured, billed and paused.
- [Security, privacy, and trust](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/security): How Sai stores and isolates your data, keeps passwords out of model context, never trains on your data, and asks before irreversible actions.
- [How to build your first robosecretary in Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/get-started): Step-by-step Sai guide: give your first task, watch it run on a live computer, add autonomous cloud computers in Screens, and set up recurring routines.
- [Give Sai your first task](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/first-task): Hand Sai a task in plain language, review its plan, watch it run on a live computer, and find finished work, files and run history in one place.
- [Build your team of autonomous computers](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/screens): Add private cloud computers in Sai Screens, name each by job, and let Sai assign tasks across a fleet of computer use agents working in parallel.
- [Writing good tasks](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/writing-tasks): Write better tasks for Sai: name the sources, the output, the destination and the repeat rule, bound the range, and state the rules that must hold.
- [Routines](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/routines): Describe a recurring task in plain language and set a schedule. Sai runs it on its cloud computers, with no triggers, nodes or field mapping to maintain.
- [Skills](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/skills): Skills teach Sai your team's methods once. Add one in plain language, from GitHub, or as a package, and Sai loads it whenever a task matches.
- [AI employees: what they are, what they do and how to set up your first one](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-employees): What AI employees are, which roles they fill today, what they cost compared with a hire, and how to set up your first AI employee with Sai step by step.
- [AI sales assistant and AI SDR: what it does, what it costs and how to build one](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-sales-agent): What an AI sales assistant (AI SDR) does, what it costs and how it compares with hiring, plus a step-by-step build on LinkedIn, your CRM and Gmail.
- [AI lead generation: how to find and qualify leads with an AI agent](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-lead-generation): How AI lead generation works, what it costs, which tasks to automate (ICP lists, signals, enrichment, first lines) and a step-by-step build with Sai.
- [How to build an AI executive assistant with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-executive-assistant): Build an AI executive assistant that writes your morning brief, triages email, preps meetings and drafts follow-ups, with your approval before anything sends.
- [AI email assistant: how to get an AI that sorts, drafts and follows up on your email](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-email-assistant): What an AI email assistant does, how it compares with built-in email AI, what it costs, and how to set one up with Sai to triage, draft and follow up.
- [How to build an AI social media manager with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-social-media-manager): Build an AI social media manager that drafts posts in your brand voice, schedules them, replies to mentions and reports weekly, with approval before anything posts.
- [How to build an AI SEO content marketer with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-seo-content-marketer): Build an AI SEO content marketer that researches keywords and questions, writes briefs, drafts articles with internal links, refreshes decaying pages and reports from Search Console, with an editor approving every publish.
- [How to build an AI e-commerce operations agent with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-ecommerce-operations-agent): Build an AI e-commerce agent that lists products on Shopify and Amazon, checks competitor prices, watches stock and drafts customer emails, with your approval.
- [How to build an AI research analyst with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-research-analyst): Build an AI research analyst that writes cited company briefs, builds market maps in Google Sheets, monitors competitors and turns findings into slides.
- [How to build an AI investment analyst with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-investment-analyst): Build an AI investment analyst for your fund: founder sourcing, deal-flow triage, first-pass diligence memos and portfolio updates, with approvals before anything is sent.
- [AI recruiter: what it does, 6 workflows and how to build one](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-recruiter): What an AI recruiter does, how to use AI for recruiting fairly, whether AI will replace recruiters, and a step-by-step build with LinkedIn, your ATS and Gmail.
- [AI bookkeeping: what an AI bookkeeper does and how to set one up](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-bookkeeper): AI bookkeeping explained: what an AI bookkeeper automates, what it costs, whether AI will replace bookkeepers, and a step-by-step setup with QuickBooks or Xero.
- [How to build an AI RevOps manager with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-revops-manager): Build an AI RevOps manager that dedupes and enriches CRM records, routes inbound leads, audits stale deals and sends a weekly pipeline report, with you approving every merge and ownership change.
- [How to build an AI customer success manager with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-customer-success-manager): Build an AI customer success manager that tracks renewals, scores account health, prepares QBR packs and drafts check-ins from HubSpot, Gmail and support tickets, with you approving every customer email.
- [AI chief of staff: what it does for founders and how to set one up](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-founder-chief-of-staff): What an AI chief of staff does for founders, how it differs from an executive assistant, what it costs, and a step-by-step setup for KPIs and investor updates.
- [How to build an AI customer support agent with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-customer-support-agent): Build an AI customer support agent that triages tickets, drafts answers from your help center, looks up orders, escalates urgent issues and finds help center gaps, with people approving refunds and sensitive replies.
- [How to build an AI project manager with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/ai-project-manager): Build an AI project manager that writes standup digests and weekly status reports, turns meeting notes into Linear or Jira tickets, triages bugs and flags risks, with people approving scope and priority changes.
- [How to automate LinkedIn with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-linkedin): Automate LinkedIn with Sai, an AI agent that works in LinkedIn like you do. What it can do, the best workflows to automate, and how to set up skills, routines and approvals.
- [Twitter (X) automation with AI: research, monitoring and drafts, within the rules](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/x-twitter-research): Twitter (X) automation done safely: what X’s rules allow, how to automate research, monitoring and drafts with AI, and what to leave manual.
- [How to automate Google Workspace with Sai: Gmail, Calendar and Sheets](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-google-workspace): Automate Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Sheets together with Sai, an AI agent. Inbound leads, deal flow, meeting briefs, scheduling and reports, with approvals before anything is sent.
- [Notion automations with AI: meeting notes, databases and wikis](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-notion): Notion automations explained: what built-in automations do, where they stop, and how an AI agent automates meeting notes, databases, digests and wikis.
- [How to automate HubSpot with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-hubspot): Automate HubSpot with Sai, an AI agent: log leads from Gmail and LinkedIn, enrich and dedupe records, route contacts, update deals and report on pipeline, with approvals before merges and emails.
- [How to automate Salesforce with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-salesforce): Automate Salesforce with Sai, an AI agent: update opportunities from notes, log leads from Gmail and LinkedIn, fix close dates and next steps, dedupe records and prep forecast calls, with approvals before stage and owner changes.
- [How to automate Shopify operations with Sai](https://academy.simular.ai/guides/automate-shopify): Automate Shopify store operations with Sai, an AI agent: order-status replies, stock and price watch, product updates, payouts and daily sales reports, with your approval before refunds, price changes and publishing.

## Sai Skills Marketplace

- [Sai Skills Marketplace](https://academy.simular.ai/skills): Reusable skills that make Sai’s computer use reliable: fill forms, enter data, update spreadsheets and run desktop apps with no API.
- [AI PDF form filler](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/ai-pdf-form-filler): A ready-to-use Sai skill that fills PDF and web forms from your documents, cites a source for every field, and waits for you before signing or submitting.
- [Invoice data extraction](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/invoice-data-extraction): A ready-to-use Sai skill that reads invoices from your inbox and vendor portals, extracts dates, amounts and line items, checks totals and flags duplicates.
- [PowerPoint automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/powerpoint-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill that updates recurring PowerPoint decks: new numbers, rebuilt charts and speaker notes, in your own template.
- [Google Slides automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/google-slides-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill that builds Google Slides decks from your reference deck and notes, in your theme, and saves your corrections as rules.
- [Automated data entry](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/automated-data-entry): A ready-to-use Sai skill for automated data entry: it reads forms, PDFs and emails and types each record into your portal, CRM or sheet, with checks.
- [Excel automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/excel-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill that automates Excel the way you work: it cleans and merges data, updates models and builds the weekly report in your own workbook.
- [Website data to Excel or Sheets](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/website-data-to-sheets): A ready-to-use Sai skill that reads prices, listings and tables from websites with no export and logs them in Google Sheets or Excel, on a schedule.
- [Real estate data entry](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/real-estate-data-entry): A ready-to-use Sai skill for real estate data entry: it turns listing agreements and agent sheets into MLS drafts and CRM records, with every field checked.
- [CRM data cleanup](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/crm-data-cleanup): A ready-to-use Sai skill for CRM data cleanup in HubSpot or Salesforce: it merges clear duplicates, standardizes fields and fills gaps, and logs every change.
- [QuickBooks automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/quickbooks-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill that automates QuickBooks Online: it enters bills, attaches receipts and codes bank transactions by your rules, with approvals.
- [Order entry automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/order-entry-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill for order entry automation: it reads emailed and PDF purchase orders, enters sales orders in your ERP and drafts confirmations.
- [NetSuite automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/netsuite-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill for NetSuite automation: it enters vendor bills from POs and receipts, attaches the PDF and leaves each bill Pending Approval.
- [Expense report automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/expense-report-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill for automated expense reporting: it matches card charges to receipts, sets categories and builds the report as a draft.
- [SAP GUI automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/sap-gui-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill that runs repetitive SAP GUI transactions like MIGO, VA01 and ME21N from a work list, screenshots each posting and stops on exceptions.
- [Mac automation with AI](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/mac-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill for Mac automation: Sai renames and files downloads, clears the Desktop and exports app data, described in plain words.
- [Desktop automation](https://academy.simular.ai/skills/desktop-automation): A ready-to-use Sai skill for desktop automation: Sai sees the screen and clicks like a person, so it can run reports and exports in apps with no API.

## Frontier Research

- [Neither code nor LLMs: Real work needs self-healing agents](https://www.simular.ai/articles/real-work-needs-self-healing-agents): Neuro-symbolic, self-healing agents use 90%+ fewer tokens and run business automation 3x faster than pure LLM agents.
- [Sai tops OSWorld 2.1, beating GPT and Opus with lower costs](https://www.simular.ai/articles/sai-tops-osworld-2-0): On OSWorld 2.1, Sai achieves a 77.3% partial score at $14.34 per task, on par with Opus 5.
- [Co~work~play: extending computer-use to real-time gameplay](https://www.simular.ai/articles/co-work-play-extending-computer-use-to-real-time-gameplay): Two experimental harnesses, Scenes and Chalkboard, let LLMs see, measure, and play games in real time.

## Perspectives on computer-use agents

- [Neither code nor LLMs: Real work needs self-healing agents](https://www.simular.ai/articles/real-work-needs-self-healing-agents): Neuro-symbolic, self-healing agents use 90%+ fewer tokens and run business automation 3x faster than pure LLM agents.
- [Sai tops OSWorld 2.1, beating GPT and Opus with lower costs](https://www.simular.ai/articles/sai-tops-osworld-2-0): On OSWorld 2.1, Sai achieves a 77.3% partial score at $14.34 per task, on par with Opus 5.
- [Why Type From Your Desk When You Can Talk From Anywhere?](https://www.simular.ai/articles/why-type-from-your-desk-when-you-can-talk-from-anywhere): Sai-Fi turns Sai into a voice concierge for Meta Ray-Ban glasses, while the agent runs on your machine back home.
- [Co~work~play: extending computer-use to real-time gameplay](https://www.simular.ai/articles/co-work-play-extending-computer-use-to-real-time-gameplay): Two experimental harnesses, Scenes and Chalkboard, let LLMs see, measure, and play games in real time.
- [Simular turns three](https://www.simular.ai/articles/simular-turns-three): From the first open-source computer-use agent to beating the human baseline on OSWorld, and why neurosymbolic is the path forward.
- [The power law of practice is absent from agents](https://www.simular.ai/articles/the-power-law-of-practice-is-absent-from-agents): People get faster with repetition. Agents re-infer every task from scratch. Why that matters, and how to fix it.

## Optional

- [Simular](https://www.simular.ai): company website
- [Simular on GitHub](https://github.com/simular-ai): open-source research, including Agent S
- [Robostaff Marketplace](https://marketplace.simular.ai): ready-made Sai workflows by job function