# Add a client and a channel

> Tell the AI Admin who the client is, and which Slack channel is theirs. From then on, the worker answers there as your agency.

Ergoly Docs › Getting started. Web: https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/getting-started/first-client · Index: https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/llms.txt

A worker on its own works for your team. To put it in front of a client, you need a **client** in Ergoly and a Slack channel that belongs to that client. The AI Admin does both from a message.

```slack
Direct message with Ada

Sam: Add Acme as a client and put Nora in #acme. Daniel Reyes is their contact.
Ada (worker): I'll create the client Acme, assign Nora to it, set #acme as Acme's channel, and bind Daniel Reyes to Acme so his DMs with Nora go to Acme. Nora will join #acme itself. OK?
Sam: OK.
Ada (worker): Done. Acme is live in #acme. Nora is there now, and only sees Acme's world when it is working for Acme.
```

## What just happened

Three things. A client called Acme now exists. Nora has a separate copy for Acme, with Acme's memory and nothing else. And #acme is mapped to Acme, so a message there always reaches that copy.

## Or invite the worker yourself

You can also invite a worker to a channel in Slack, the way you would invite a person. It asks you, and only you, what the channel is for. See [When a worker joins a channel](https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/workers/channels/slack).

> **Worth knowing.** Start with an internal channel for the client, where your team reviews the worker's drafts, before inviting it into the channel the client is in. See [Internal client channels](https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/clients/internal-channels).

- [Clients](https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/clients): Adding, assigning, and what stays separate.
- [Client channels](https://www.ergoly.ai/docs/workers/channels/slack/client-channels): How a channel is mapped, and how to change it.