Getting Started
Everything you need to go from a fresh OBIE account to a live AI Hub. Learn the building blocks — hubs, journeys, milestones, and steps — create your first hub with the AI builder, and flip the right switches to bring members in.
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What Is OBIE?
OBIE is a platform that lets coaches, course creators, and consultants turn their expertise into AI-powered hubs — branded spaces where members work through guided programs, talk with an AI trained on your material, and reach the outcomes you promise.
How Do I Get Started with OBIE?
Create your account at app.obie.io, then let OBIE interview you about your work and build your first AI Hub for you. You review the draft, publish your journeys, and invite your first members.
What Is an AI Hub?
An AI Hub is your branded member space on OBIE — a site at your own address where members sign in, work through journeys, talk with AI trained on your material, and access your offers. Everything in OBIE lives inside a hub.
Your Creator Dashboard
Your creator dashboard is the home screen of the OBIE app. It shows audience stats, recently updated content, and a live activity feed so you can see what's happening across all your hubs at a glance.
Create Your First AI Hub with the OBIE Builder
Open **AI Hubs**, select **Create New AI Hub**, and describe the result you help people achieve. Attach reference files if useful, confirm the outline, then choose **Build It All Now** or **Start My First Journey**.
AI Hubs, Journeys, Milestones, and Steps: OBIE's Building Blocks
An AI Hub is your branded user space. Journeys deliver outcomes through Milestones and Steps, Conversations provide ongoing AI support, Documents supply source material, and Offers control how people get access.
What Is a Journey?
A journey is a guided path inside your AI Hub that takes members from where they start to a specific outcome. Each journey is made up of milestones and steps, and members work through them in order.
What Is a Milestone?
A milestone is a major stage inside a journey that marks real progress. Each milestone contains steps — the individual actions members complete. When all steps in a milestone are done, the milestone is complete.
What Is a Step?
A step is one focused action inside a milestone. It can guide a user with AI, provide fixed guidance, create options or a timeline, or assemble completed work into a downloadable deliverable.
What Are Conversations?
A Conversation is an open-ended AI chat you create for your hub. Each user gets private threads inside it and can return at any time, unlike a journey step with a defined completion point.
How Do I Make My AI Hub Live?
There's no single publish button. Your AI Hub is live for a member when three things are true: the hub is Active (the default), its journeys are published, and that member has access.
Journeys or Conversations: Which Should You Build?
Build a journey first. Journeys deliver a specific outcome through your IP, step by step; conversations are open-ended chats for ongoing support once a member has outcomes to talk about — which is why we recommend gating them for brand-new members.
What Is an Outcome?
An outcome is a finished thing your member walks away with — their plan, their profile, their script — not a lesson they watched. Steps deliver outcomes, and a journey is a sequence of steps that adds up to one outcome big enough to matter.
How to Structure a Journey, Its Milestones, and Its Steps
A journey is one outcome worth walking away with, a milestone is a phase of related work inside it, and a step is one finished deliverable. Aim for 3–6 milestones per journey and 2–5 steps per milestone, and always size a step by its deliverable rather than by its questions.
Where Can I Find OBIE Training and Recordings?
OBIE's training video archive and past training session recordings are available at https://obie.membership.io. Live training calls are delivered through Zoom, and you can join them from the OBIE event dashboard at https://obie.obv.io.