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AffordEnterprise overview
A tour of the platform: Workspace, Marketplace, Studio and Talents. 3:54.
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AffordEnterprise overview. AffordEnterprise has seven products that fit together. This video tours each one: who it is for, and what you do there.
The Workspace is where people do their daily work. Getting started lists first steps; hide it or ask to be reminded tomorrow.
The tiles count what is waiting for you, such as approvals and unread notifications.
Your apps opens the apps you use most.
Choose To do, Snoozed, Done or All.
Select a task.
Select Approve or Reject after writing a comment.
The Marketplace is where you find and buy apps, and where providers sell them. Type what you need in the search box and press Enter.
Select a category chip, such as retail, to narrow the list.
Select Collections to see sets of apps that editors have put together.
Select See plans to jump to the prices.
Read Pricing: each edition shows its price, whether it is per seat, and any free trial.
Select Buy Team to go to checkout for that edition.
Studio is where you design, build, test and release apps. Select New project to start one.
Search with Find a project.
Change the Sort.
Select New entity.
Switch to Diagram to see lookups as arrows.
Select an entity to edit it.
Select Create release.
Select Edit pipeline to change the stages.
Select Run tests against a stage.
Talents connects you with certified builders, and builders with work. Type a name or skill in Search talent.
Select Post a project to describe work you want done.
Select Browse jobs if you are looking for work.
The signatures and access date show the contract is active.
Select Fund into escrow to put a milestone's money in escrow.
AffordAI is where you build and govern agents. Select New agent.
Select an agent to open its designer.
Select Run to try it in the playground.
Choose the Autonomy: suggest only, ask before acting, or act within limits.
Set Most steps and Most cost for one run.
List Blocked topics.
Tick the risk classes the agent may use.
AI is on for this organisation stops every agent when off.
Set the Monthly budget.
Tick Mask personal data.
Identity holds your people, roles, security and licences. Type a name or email in Search.
Filter by Status: Active, Suspended or Deactivated.
Filter by Role.
Select Create a custom role.
Select Simulate to check why someone has or lacks a permission.
Use View to open a role and Clone to copy it.
The tiles count members, administrators, verified domains, single sign-on and sync tokens.
What to do next lists what to fix.
Select the button on an item, such as Open domains, to go and fix it.
Platform holds billing, support, notifications and the developer tools. Enter the Legal name that goes on invoices.
Optionally enter your Tax ID. AE Finance verifies it.
Select Add contact to add someone who gets billing emails.
Select New case.
Use Search cases, Status and Priority to find one.
Select Create an endpoint.
Select Check success rates to read each endpoint's recent delivery health.
Select an endpoint to open it.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Home, Tasks and approvals inbox, Storefront home, Listing detail, Studio home and projects, Domain model (ERD).
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Find an app, try it, buy it and use it
From the storefront to a working app in your launcher. (2:27)
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J2: Find an app, try it, buy it and use it. This journey goes from the storefront to people using the app in the Workspace, across the Marketplace, Platform, Identity and the Workspace.
You start in the Marketplace storefront. Type what you need in the search box and press Enter.
Select a category chip, such as retail, to narrow the list.
Select Collections to see sets of apps that editors have put together.
You read the listing and choose a plan. Select See plans to jump to the prices.
Read Pricing: each edition shows its price, whether it is per seat, and any free trial.
Select Buy Team to go to checkout for that edition.
Select Start free trial on an edition that has a trial.
At checkout you add billing details, choose how to pay and place the order. Choose the Edition.
Enter the number of Seats. You assign them to people later.
Fill in Billing details once. They set the tax on your invoices and the currency of prices.
Select Save billing details.
Choose how you will pay: saved method, M-Pesa, bank transfer or card in test mode.
Select Place order.
The install page shows the order turning into an installed app. The steps tick off as the order, the subscription and the install finish.
When it is done, select Open app.
Select Assign licences to give people their seats.
You can change seats or cancel here. Change Seats and click away to save the new number.
Select Cancel to stop renewing.
In Identity you give people licences. Licences lists each per-seat app with Purchased, Assigned and Available seats.
Select Buy more seats when none are left.
People open the app from the launcher in the Workspace. Type in Find an app.
Select the pin to keep an app on your Home.
Select Request for an app that is not in your plan.
Select New deal.
Search with Search and filter with the fields beside it.
Switch the view: Table, Cards, Board, Calendar, Timeline or Pivot.
Select Export CSV.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Storefront home, Listing detail, Checkout, Install wizard and progress, Marketplace subscriptions, Licences and seats.
Hire a builder
Post a project, sign a contract and review the work. (1:17)
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J3: Hire a builder. This journey goes from posting a project to paying a builder, in Talents.
You post a project. Enter a Title.
Describe What needs doing.
List Skills.
Choose Who can see it: anyone on the job board, or only builders you invite.
Set the Currency and Budget.
You read the proposals and choose one. Proposals lists what builders sent: price, milestones and cover letter.
Select Hire to draft a contract from a proposal.
Select Message to talk first.
You create the contract and sign it. Choose the Project whose proposal you accepted.
Select E-sign to sign; the builder signs next.
In the contract room you fund a milestone into escrow, and approve the work when it is delivered. The signatures and access date show the contract is active.
Select Fund into escrow to put a milestone's money in escrow.
When the contract ends, both sides review each other. A review opens for both sides when the contract ends.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Post a project wizard, Project and proposals review, Contract creation and e-signature, Contract room, Mutual review.
Clip: Checkout
Edition, seats, billing details and how you pay. (0:33)
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Clip: Checkout. A closer look at checkout, from edition to order.
Choose the Edition.
Enter the number of Seats. You assign them to people later.
Fill in Billing details once. They set the tax on your invoices and the currency of prices.
Select Save billing details.
Choose how you will pay: saved method, M-Pesa, bank transfer or card in test mode.
Select Place order.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Checkout.
Clip: Release center
Promote a version from Developer to Production. (0:23)
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Clip: Release center. A closer look at the release center: build, release and promote.
Select Create release.
Select Edit pipeline to change the stages.
Select Run tests against a stage.
Draft changes with AI opens the copilot.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Release center.
Clip: Agent guardrails
Decide how much an AI agent may do on its own. (0:27)
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Clip: Agent guardrails. A closer look at guardrails: how much an agent may do on its own.
Choose the Autonomy: suggest only, ask before acting, or act within limits.
Set Most steps and Most cost for one run.
List Blocked topics.
Tick the risk classes the agent may use.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Guardrails and autonomy.
Clip: Contract room
Milestones, files and messages in one place. (0:20)
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Clip: Contract room. A closer look at the contract room: signatures, milestones and escrow.
The signatures and access date show the contract is active.
Select Fund into escrow to put a milestone's money in escrow.
That is it. To read the steps again, open the guide: Contract room.
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