The Quickstart gets you from zero to one real issue in Brightstack in about five minutes. The idea to hold onto is that an issue is the unit of work in Bright, and chat is how you create one. Success is one meaningful result in the workspace, usually an issue you created or that chat completed work on. You do not need the full research-to-ship loop on day one. Open Bright →

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Who this is for

  • Founders who want an idea captured and moving without spinning up a new tool stack
  • PMs who need a tracked issue (or a first pass from chat) without leaving the workspace
  • Engineers evaluating whether Bright can turn a plain-language ask into structured work

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In 5 minutes you will

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1. Create your account

  1. Open the app: https://app.brightstack.ai
  2. Enter a username, an email address, and a password, then select Continue (or Continue with GitHub).
  3. Complete email verification if the product asks for it.
Signup screen with primary CTA visible

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2. Open your workspace

After signup you land in a Bright workspace.
  1. Open Plan (the checklist icon in the left rail), where issues live. A new workspace starts with an empty issues list. The issue you create in step 3 appears here.
  2. Some workspaces include a Welcome issue (title similar to “Welcome to Bright”). If yours has one, open it.
  3. Chat lives in Work, the first icon in the left rail. It works from an empty workspace; you do not need any issue to start.
Workspace with Welcome issue (or issues list) and chat entry visible If you opened the Welcome issue, read the body once. The core idea: an issue is the unit of work in Bright. Your next move is to create a real issue, or ask chat to start one.
Do not hunt for settings yet. Go straight to Work and start a session.

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3. Ask chat to create or work an issue

Open Work, select New session, and paste one of these prompts. Edit the topic to something you actually care about. Prompt A - create your first real issue
Prompt B - work from a rough idea
Send the message. Watch chat respond and write into the workspace: a new or updated issue, and sometimes a short plan or doc. Chat with one prompt sent and a reply starting work

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4. Review the result

  1. Open the issue chat created or updated (from the reply, the issues list, or the issue thread).
  2. Skim the title, description, and any plan or linked doc.
  3. Check that you could hand this to yourself on Monday morning: clear outcome, not a vague note.
If something is missing, reply in the same chat. Ask Bright to tighten the acceptance criteria, add a next step, or split the work. You are done with the Quickstart when one issue (or a small doc or plan tied to it) exists and you understand it. Resulting issue open with description visible

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Tips

  • Prefer a specific outcome and time box (“this week”, “one page”, “5 users”) over a vague goal. Bright works best when the ask could become a real issue.
  • Learn what each issue property means, how the views differ, and where issues sit next to projects and chat in Issues.
  • Go deeper on the modes you saw in chat, what each one can change, and when to reach for it, in Sessions and modes.

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Good to know

  • The whole Quickstart takes about five minutes and ends with one issue (or a small doc or plan tied to it).
  • Signup asks for a username, an email address, and a password. Email verification runs only if the product asks for it.
  • Chat lives in Work: select New session. It works from an empty workspace, and a Welcome issue is not required.

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Next step

See how issues, projects, documents, and sessions fit together in How Bright works.