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The Agentic Self

Your first steps with EDU.FYI

EDU.FYI is an AI-powered education platform built around one idea — your Agentic Self: a persistent, personal AI persona (also called your agent) that grows with you from your first day of class through your early career. It's student-created, student-controlled, mobile-first, and completely no-code.

  • Connect your university account and switch into EDU.FYI mode
  • Build and voice your own AI agent
  • Complete the Kickoff Convo and grow its Depth
  • Use Abilities, AI Lectures, AI in Projects, and Clockworks
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How this guide works: scroll straight through, or move step by step with the Back and Next buttons (or your left/right arrow keys). Your progress saves automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off.

A student's AI agent evolving alongside them — from Freshman to Graduate to Early Career
Getting Started

Connect your university account

EDU.FYI lives inside the FYI app. Sign in with your school account to unlock EDU.FYI mode — there's no separate account to create.

  1. Tap "Connect EDU Account" on the welcome screen.

  2. Sign in with your university email (for example, your ASU / ASURITE login).

  3. You'll see "Switching to EDU.FYI," then a "Welcome to EDU.FYI" screen.

  4. Tap your name any time to switch between EDU.FYI and FYI.AI modes.

EDU.FYI is where you "Chat with AI Agents, listen to AI Lectures, and start discussions inside projects created by your school."

Good to know

Authentication runs through your university's own email and password — your school credentials are what unlock EDU.FYI mode.

The FYI welcome screen reading 'Unlock More Features With EDU.FYI' with a Connect EDU Account button
The Basics

Take the quick guided tour

On your first visit, EDU.FYI points out the essentials with a short set of tooltips. Here's what each one is telling you.

  • EDU Tab

    Access your school's AI Agents and Lectures from the EDU Tab.

  • AI Agents

    Chat with AI Agents designed by your school, built specifically to support you and your academic journey.

  • Agent Tab

    Build your own AI Agent with the traits, knowledge, and abilities that match how you think, work, and learn.

  • Projects

    Access your courses and school-related projects under the new EDU tab in Projects.

  • Switch modes

    Tap on your name to switch between EDU.FYI and FYI.AI modes.

The app at a glance

The AI tab is where you build and talk to your agent. In EDU.FYI mode, an EDU tab surfaces your school's agents and lectures, and a top switcher shows EDU · AGENT · CONVOS · RAIDIO.

The Agent tab with a 'Build your own dynamic AI Agent' card and a coach-mark tooltip explaining it
Build Your Agent

Build your Agentic Self

The AI tab is your home base. Tap Start Building to create your agent — appearance, name, and voice — with no code.

  1. Tap Start Building on the AI tab (or "Try a FYI Persona" to begin from a ready-made one).

  2. Create its appearance — from text, from an image, or from a template — then pick a model style and generate.

  3. Regenerate or swipe between results until one feels right.

  4. Give your persona a name.

The goal: "Create your AI persona with the traits, knowledge, and abilities that match how you think, work, and learn."

Good to know

Image generation has a daily limit — if you see "Generation Limit Reached," come back later. You'll see your creation called both a "persona" and an "agent"; they mean the same thing.

The Build Your AI Persona screen with options to create the persona from text, an image, or a template
Voice

Give it a voice

Choose how your agent sounds. Pick a ready-made preset voice, or create a custom one by recording or uploading audio.

  1. Open the voice menu and choose a Preset Voice — play it to preview.

  2. Or create a custom voice: record your own or upload an audio file.

  3. Answer the AI Voice questions (optional) to shape how it speaks and responds.

  4. Confirm your choice — you'll land on a "Voice Selected" screen.

Good to know

Custom voice creation is powerful but still a bit experimental — if it acts up, start with a built-in preset and revisit a custom voice later.

The Preset Voices menu where you can preview and pick a voice for your agent
First Conversation

Complete the Kickoff Convo

The Kickoff Convo is your agent's first real conversation with you. It gives a brand-new agent the critical context about your goals and mission.

  1. From the Agent Dashboard, tap Complete Kickoff Convo.

  2. Talk or type through the prompts about you, your goals, and what you want help with.

  3. Return to your dashboard, now showing your persona, its Depth, recent Convos, and quick actions.

A human and an agent together are the new workforce. Your Agentic Self is a persistent teammate that reflects you — not the institution, and not the algorithm.

Good to know

Treat the Kickoff Convo like introducing yourself to a new study partner — the more context you give, the more useful it becomes right away.

The Agent Dashboard showing your persona, its Depth, and quick actions including Complete Kickoff Convo
Knowledge & Depth

Grow its Depth with your own knowledge

Depth measures how effective your agent is — its emotional intelligence and creative dynamism. It's shown as a percentage with a classification: a brand-new agent starts as a "Generic AI Agent" and levels up as you feed it your own knowledge.

The Depth screen breaks your score into four dimensions:

  • Human Insight Integration — depth of human understanding vs. surface-level data processing.
  • Emotional Intelligence — capacity for empathy, emotional depth, and human values.
  • Lived Experience Evidence — real-world grounding from your own documents and materials.
  • Creative Dynamism — originality and range in how it responds.

To raise it, add your own material and follow the screen's Recommended Actions:

  1. Add Files & Links — PDFs, documents, transcripts, even textbooks, plus URLs to relevant content.

  2. Add detail to your Persona Mission — a clearer purpose strengthens every conversation.

  3. Add Beliefs & Passions — the interests and reference links or documents that shape its worldview.

  4. Add Word Replacements — signature phrasing that makes its voice unmistakably yours.

Good to know

General subjects are being folded into custom knowledge bases (like your own course notes or FAQs) — the AI already knows broad topics, so your personal material is what makes it uniquely yours.

The Depth screen showing a 30% score, a 'Generic AI Agent' classification, four dimension scores, and recommended actions to improve Depth
Abilities

Unlock your agent's Abilities

Abilities are the things your agent can actually do. On the Abilities screen they're grouped into categories — like Content Generation — and you switch each one on with a toggle.

Abilities you can put to work include:

  • Text/Voice to Project
  • Web Search
  • Voice calling
  • Music generation
  • Integrated web apps

  1. Open the Abilities tab on your persona.

  2. Browse the categories — for example, Content Generation.

  3. Toggle on what you want — like Text/Voice to Project or Web Search.

  4. Fine-tune each ability to fit the way you work.

Text/Voice to Project generates a brand-new project — or adds to an existing one — from a single prompt, turning an idea into a structured workspace in seconds.

Good to know

Only the abilities you toggle on are active. Start with a couple that match how you work, then add more as you get comfortable.

The Abilities screen with a Content Generation category and toggles for Text/Voice to Project and Web Search
AI Lectures

Turn any project into an AI Lecture

Your agent scans all the blocks and files in a project and turns them into an audible, interactive lecture you control.

  1. Open a project and start AI Lectures.

  2. Choose a length: Short, Default, or Long.

  3. Tap Generate and start listening.

  4. Interrupt any time — tap the mic to ask a question, or open the Table of Contents to jump around.

Good to know

Lectures pull from the project's own content — text, documents, links, and images — so they stay grounded in your actual material.

The AI Lectures screen with a length picker — Short, Default, or Long — and playback controls including a mic to ask questions
AI in Projects

Bring your agent into your projects

With AI in Projects, your companion becomes a native participant in your course materials — not a separate chat window off to the side.

  1. Open a project — for example a course like HIST 220 or MUS 101.

  2. Tap the AI Widget to ask questions answered from that project's own data.

  3. Use Voice AI to talk it through, or attach a specific project block for context.

  4. Move between tabs — Project, AI, Calendar, and Discussion — and even build web apps inside a project.

Good to know

Because it reads the project's own materials, answers stay grounded in your actual course content — every lesson, assignment, and resource becomes collaborative.

A course project workspace with Project, AI, Calendar, and Discussion tabs and an AI widget the agent can join
Clockworks

Put your agent on the clock with Clockworks

Clockworks (formerly called Tasks) are repetitive or scheduled actions your agent runs in the background — like a weekly phone call or a standing report.

  1. Create a Clockwork for a one-off or recurring task.

  2. Set its schedule and let your agent run it for you.

  3. Track it on the dashboard across In Progress, Scheduled, Completed, and anything that Needs Action.

Your agent can also handle calls. Assign it a Callback Number so it can place and receive calls on your behalf.

Good to know

Giving your agent a phone number lets it make calls for you. Callback functionality — having it receive incoming calls — requires a premium plan.

The Clockworks dashboard grouping agent actions into Needs Action, In Progress, Scheduled, and Completed
You're Ready

You're set up — and there's more

That's the core loop. As you go further, a few extra tools are worth knowing about.

For faculty

Publisher Tool

How university officials create and publish personas and lectures for the student body.

Create

Compose & Clips

Generate audio clips in your persona's voice; Stylized text weaves in its signature expressions.

Advanced

Jetson GPU

Connect local hardware to keep sensitive data private on your own network and host deterministic services.

Here's everything you now know how to do:

  • Connect your university account and enter EDU.FYI mode
  • Build and voice your Agentic Self
  • Complete the Kickoff Convo and grow its Depth
  • Use Abilities, AI Lectures, AI in Projects, and Clockworks

Ready to meet your Agentic Self?

Download EDU.FYI and set up your persona in minutes — no code, fully yours.

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