Up and running in minutes

The old paradigm is out. The new paradigm is AI. AI automation is InTouch AI — and you'll have it running, on your own machine, by the end of this page. No Docker, no cloud account, no infrastructure project.

Self-contained Java 17+ Self-hosted
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Step 1

Before you start

InTouch AI is a single self-contained server that hosts both the API and the web UI — it runs anywhere Java runs. You need three things:

  • Java 17 or newer. Check with java -version. If you need it, grab the free Adoptium Temurin build.
  • Python 3 for the installer (one script, runs once).
  • An AI provider account. We recommend Anthropic Claude (the assistant is tuned for it), or Ollama to run fully local and free. Details in Step 4.

OS-wise: Linux, macOS, and Windows 10/11 are all fine.

Step 2

Download

One zip file, about 200 MB. It contains the server, the UI, the installer, and a handful of example skills and jobs to get you oriented.

Download Personal Edition

intouch-personal-edition-installer.zip · Unzip, then run python3 install.py — it installs InTouch, starts it, and adds Desktop shortcuts. Self-contained: server JAR + React UI + sample data.

Step 3

Install

Unpack the zip and run the installer. The installer asks where to install and which port to use; the defaults are fine for a first try.

unzip intouch-personal-edition-installer.zip
cd intouch-personal-edition
python install.py

The installer drops everything under the install directory you choose. Nothing is written outside it.

Step 4

Get an AI provider key

In InTouch AI, AI isn't a feature bolted onto a config-era core — it is the architecture. The vault, the scheduler, the connectors, the audit trail all sit behind it. So the AI provider isn't an add-on; it's the engine. The assistant drives InTouch AI by reasoning over a large context, so it needs a provider with a generous context window. We recommend Anthropic's Claude — it's what the assistant is tuned for. Want zero-cost and fully local? Ollama runs on your own machine, no key required.

Recommended: Anthropic Claude

  1. Sign up at console.anthropic.com.
  2. Go to API Keys → Create Key. Name it "InTouch AI" and create.
  3. Copy the key — it starts with sk-ant-… and you only see it once. Keep it handy for the next steps.

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Step 5

First launch

InTouch AI is one self-contained server that hosts both the REST API and the web UI — a single process, no separate UI to start.

cd /path/to/intouch-personal-edition
bin/startserver

It comes up in a couple of seconds. Then open http://localhost:2200 in your browser — the web UI is served right there, same origin as the API.

Step 6

First login

The Personal edition is single-user with fixed defaults:

  • Username: intouch
  • Password: blueisle

These are intentionally immutable on Personal — it's a single-user, friction-free model. If you need multi-user, RBAC, and password rotation, that's what the Team / Department / Enterprise editions exist for.

Step 7

Add your AI provider credential

This is the trust floor. Credentials live in an AES-256 vault — jobs reference them by name, never pasted into scripts, never exposed even to the AI itself. The key you add here is locked down before it does a single thing.

  1. Sidebar → Credentials → Add
  2. Type: anthropic (or openai / gemini / ollama if you chose those in Step 4)
  3. Name: anything — My Claude Key is fine
  4. Group: Default Credentials
  5. Secret: paste the key from Step 4
  6. Save
Step 8

Configure the AI Assistant

The AI Assistant has its own provider settings (separate from the credential you just added — the credential is for jobs/tasks; this is what powers the chat).

  1. Sidebar → System → Settings → AI Assistant
  2. Provider: Anthropic (or whatever you used in Step 4 and Step 7)
  3. API Key: paste the same key here (or your provider's key if you went with a different one)
  4. Model: pick from the list — the default for each provider is the recommended starting point
  5. Enabled: check the box
  6. Save
Step 9

Say hi

Open the AI Assistant chat (sidebar → the chat icon, or wherever the current build labels it). Type something simple:

What can you help me with?

You'll get a response in a moment. Try asking it to list your jobs, summarize a recent run, or build a new automation. This is how people work now: describe what you want, don't configure it. The assistant has tool-use access to your InTouch AI server — it can read state and take actions on your behalf. And when a job fails, it doesn't hand you a stack trace and a retry counter — it reads the failure, tells you why, and fixes what it can. "It broke. Here's why. I fixed it." No config-era tool can say that.

Step 10

Browse the InTouch Hub

Find it and run it. The InTouch Hub is a library of ready-to-run skills and jobs you install with one click — start from something that works instead of a blank page. Browse from the sidebar (Skills view or Hub browser) or visit hub.blueisle.com directly.

The items are example starting points — provided as-is for you to install, read, and adapt to your setup. They're not productized templates that will work out of the box for everyone. Read each one's README before running.

For ideas grouped by use case, see the Examples by vertical on the home page.

Step 11

Got stuck?

We're happy to help — and your feedback makes the product better. If anything breaks, confuses, or could be improved:

Tell us what you were trying to do and what happened — screenshots help. Someone in the community (often us) will jump in.

Automate your first thing today

This is AI-native, not AI-retrofitted — production-hardened in Fortune 500 production for over two decades, before "AI automation" was even a phrase. Self-hosted, from your laptop to the enterprise. The hub content is illustrative starting points. Everything else is between you and your machine.

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