Start Your Farm from an AI Assistant

You can start using Sporeline from the AI assistant you already work in. When you add Sporeline to the assistant, the sign-in page lets you create a free farm if you don’t have one yet. Once you’re signed up, you go straight back to the assistant, and it can help you set the farm up. The Connect an AI Assistant guide lists the assistants that work with Sporeline today and how to add it to each one.

Create a free farm while you connect

1. In your assistant, add Sporeline as a connector. The assistant opens Sporeline’s sign-in page in your browser.
2. Choose Create a free farm. You land on Sporeline’s signup page, the same one everyone uses, and pick your email, password and farm name there.
3. Finish the checks in your browser. Sporeline may ask for a code we email you, and the first time you sign in it asks you to read and accept the usage recording notice. Both happen in the browser, not in the assistant.
4. Sporeline sends you back to finish connecting. Approve the connection, and you’re back in the assistant with your new farm attached.

Already have a farm? Choose Sign in instead, and you’ll come back to the assistant the same way. The farm is on the Free plan until you choose another one in Settings → Billing.

If the link stops working partway through (it does after about half an hour), start connecting again from the assistant.

What the assistant can set up

Ask the assistant to look at your farm first. It can see the farm’s name, plan, your role, time zone and units, and how many recipes, locations, strains, bag types and item types you have, so it can tell a brand-new farm from one that’s already set up. It never sees your billing details, QuickBooks connection or prices.

From there it can help with:

• Time zone and units: your time zone, and whether weights are in pounds, ounces or grams and temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
• Farm name and stage names: what your farm is called, and your own names for the stages, such as “Incubation” for Colonizing.
• Your lifecycle: which stages your farm uses, which moves are allowed between them, and the stage new batches start in.
• Item types: the kinds of lab items and batches you track and their stages.
• Locations, strains, bag types and recipes: the assistant adds these with the same tools it uses to bring data over from a spreadsheet. The Migrate with an Assistant guide covers that.

You see a preview before anything is saved

Every setup change starts as a preview. The assistant shows you what would change, from what to what, and nothing is saved until you tell it to go ahead. If someone else changes the same settings in the meantime, the save is refused and the assistant shows you a fresh preview.

Sporeline checks an assistant’s changes exactly the way it checks yours in Settings. A lifecycle where new batches could never reach a working stage, or a stage with nowhere for a healthy batch to go, is refused with the same message the settings page shows.

Some changes need a reason, the same as in the app:

• Changing your lifecycle needs one, because it changes where every batch can go next.
• Changing an item type stage that has items sitting in it needs one. The preview tells you how many items are there.

The assistant asks you for the reason and saves it with the change.

Who can make changes

The assistant can only do what your own role can do in Sporeline. Anyone on the farm can ask it what’s set up. Saving setup changes takes a Manager or the Owner, the same people who can change these settings in the app.

Lifecycle changes and item type stage changes an assistant saves show up in Reports → Activity under your name, with the source shown as MCP, so you can see what changed and who asked for it.