Head to Settings, then open the Maia tab. Scroll to the Slack section and hit the Connect to Slack button. Slack's OAuth screen will pop up asking you to pick a workspace and authorise the Maia app. Once you approve, you'll land back in Protaigé and see a green Connected badge next to the workspace name.

The first thing worth knowing is that Maia is not just a chat bot in your sidebar. Open her Home tab and you'll find a full dashboard.

At the top, Recent Work shows your most recent campaigns so you can pick up where you left off. Below that, Launch Something New gives you quick action buttons straight into Dashboard, Build Campaign, Brainstorm, and Content Studio.

The Autopilot row is the fast lane: tap Launch, Case Study, Awareness, Flash Sale, Event or Seasonal and Maia kicks off that campaign type for you. Your Departments at the bottom groups everything by team - Strategy & Planning, Brand & Identity, Art & Design, Copy Desk, Content Studio, and Back Office - so you can jump straight to the part of the agency you need.

Think of the Home tab as the place to come when you want to launch something fast without leaving Slack.

DM Maia the same way you'd DM any colleague. Ask her a question about your brand, ask her to draft a post, ask her to generate an image, get her to log an update against a contact in your CRM, or have her write an email for you to send.

She remembers context across the conversation, so you don't have to re-explain yourself every time you come back. And if you start a piece of work in a DM, she can carry that thread of context across to the rest of Protaigé.

If you want Maia in on a wider conversation, invite her into a channel and @mention her like any other teammate. She'll join, read what's been said, and reply.

Her replies always come back in-thread, not in the main channel, so the channel stays scannable and your conversation with her stays self-contained. Great for the moments when you want her input where the rest of the team can see it, without flooding everyone's feed.