Account & website

This page explains the parts of ArchHub that sit around the work: how you sign in, where your account and plan live, how billing works, and where to find your synced brain. It is written for the person running the firm, not a developer — no terminal required.

There are two places you’ll touch your account:

• The desktop app (the studio where you actually do the work).
• The website, archhub.io (where you download the app, sign in, and check your plan from any browser).

Both read the same account, so your email, plan, and remaining messages match wherever you look.

1. Signing in (or signing up)

ArchHub uses magic-link sign-in — there is no password to remember.

From the website

1. Go to archhub.io.
2. In the top navigation, click Sign in (or Get started if you’re new).
3. You land on the Sign in page. Enter your email address.
4. ArchHub emails you a link. Open the email and click the link — that signs you in.

No credit card is required to create an account. New accounts start on a free tier with a set number of trial messages included, so you can try the product before paying.

From the desktop app

The first time you launch the app, a short first-run setup walks you through signing in to a cloud model using the same magic-link flow. Once you’re signed in, the app remembers you.

A note on “Sign in with Google”: it works. The button on the sign-in page takes you to Google’s consent screen and brings you back signed in. The email magic link works too — use whichever you prefer.

2. Where your account lives in the app

When you open the desktop app you land on the Home view. Home shows three things tied to your account:

• Your recent sessions — a grid of cards (with thumbnails) for the graphs you’ve been working on, so you can jump back in.
• The account chip — shows your email, your plan, and how many messages you have remaining. These are read live from your real account — nothing here is hardcoded.
• A graph-health indicator — a small chip/badge that tells you the health of your current work and opens a real detail view when clicked.

To change account-level things, open Settings. The account settings open in a native dialog that shows your email, plan, and remaining messages, pulled from your live account. Settings is also where you manage your AI model providers, the model router, permissions, theme, and accessibility preferences.

3. Your account on the website

You can also check your account from any browser without opening the app.

1. Go to archhub.io and Sign in (magic link).
2. Use the Account link in the navigation.
3. The Account page shows your email, your plan, and your messages remaining — the same numbers you see in the app.

The website navigation also gives you the rest of the public site: Home, Features, Pricing, Community, Security, and Changelog, plus Download (to get the desktop app) and Get started.

4. Your license and plan

ArchHub is free in open beta: one tier, every shipped feature, no credit card, no trial clock. Paid tiers (Solo, Studio, Firm) are planned and not active — nothing is billed today.

There are two ways to run the AI behind ArchHub:

• Bring-your-own-key (BYO): you plug in your own model provider key, and ArchHub uses it.
• Hosted AI: ArchHub runs the model for you through its cloud, metered in messages.

You can see which plan you’re on, and how many messages remain, from the account chip on Home, from Settings, or from the Account page on the website.

Buying and managing your plan

• Pricing lives on the Pricing page and says the same thing: free in open beta.
• No plan can be bought today; no credit pack is sold. When billing opens, this page and the app will say so first.

Heads-up on purchasing: there is no checkout. Any “Coming soon” label in the app means exactly that.

A note on free cloud AI: a zero-setup free cloud model is not promised yet. If you use hosted AI without a configured key or credits, a request may be declined until billing or a key is in place. The reliable free path today is bringing your own key, or a local model.

5. Your brain (and where it lives)

The brain is ArchHub’s personal memory. It learns from your work and feeds context back into the app so it gets more useful over time.

• In the app, you can browse your brain directly: a Brain browser and a folders view organize your facts into folders and facets, and you can search, browse, and view individual facts and memories. You can also see brain status and statistics, and add memory facts.
• Cloud backup / sync: the desktop app can push your brain to the cloud as a backup. This sync is write-only and strips secrets before sending — it copies your knowledge to your own private per-user replica, it does not pull a shared brain back down.

The brain portal on the website

The website has a brain portal at archhub.io/brain — sign in and it shows the facts your ArchHub has synced to the cloud, with search gated by your plan. It is read-only: the in-app brain browser is where you organise, edit and back up your memory.

6. Getting started, end to end

A clean path for a brand-new user:

1. Install the app (Windows, no terminal needed). From archhub.io click Download, which takes you to the ArchHub-Setup-0.exe installer on the project’s GitHub releases; the filename carries the open-beta packaging label, while the app’s version is the newest entry on the changelog; double-click it. (Package managers are not published — the scoop manifest in the repository does not match the published installer, so scoop install fails its hash check.) The installer adds a desktop icon and a Start-menu shortcut.
   • On first launch you may see a Windows SmartScreen warning (until the app is code-signed) — this is expected; choose to run anyway.
2. First launch & sign-in. The app opens and walks you through signing in to a cloud model with a magic link — free tier, no credit card, trial messages included.
3. First action. You land on Home (recent sessions + account chip + graph health). Create a session, open the canvas, and start working — type in the composer to drive your graph, or drop a connector node and run it.
4. Check your account from the web anytime: visit archhub.io → Account to see your plan and messages remaining.

Known launch issue (workaround): on some NVIDIA graphics cards the app window can open blank. If that happens, set the environment variable ARCHHUB_VERIFY_NO_GPU=1 and relaunch. An automatic fallback for this is on the way.

Quick reference

Still to come: checkout on the website, a zero-config free cloud model, and automatic GPU fallback. Everything else in the table above is live today.