The assistant installs on any device

Changing anything about the assistant — switching it on, adding a couple of facts about yourself, looking through a conversation — used to mean opening Telegram. All of it now lives in a browser at headhack.ru and in the phone app. The account and the settings are shared: change something in one place and you see it everywhere.

Once with a VPN, then without

The assistant answers messages by itself and does not wait for you to open the messenger. It runs on our side, so it keeps answering even if Telegram will not open for you today.

Telegram is needed at two steps, and both happen once: confirming the login, and connecting your account so the assistant can answer in your name. After that the browser remembers you for a month, and everything else — settings, knowledge base, conversations, your plan — opens without it. More on how the assistant answers clients while the messenger stays shut is in the post Telegram without a VPN.

An app for phone and computer

The assistant can be installed like an ordinary app and opened from its icon, without going to the website every time. Inside it is all the same: the same screens, the same account, the same settings. Every route is gathered on headhack.ru/download — the page works out what suits your device.

• Android — a file downloaded from the site and installed from the phone
• iPhone and iPad — a Home Screen icon from Safari, no App Store needed
• Windows — installed by Chrome or Edge itself, nothing to download
• macOS — added to the Dock from Safari, through the File menu
• Linux — installed by Chrome or Chromium, no package needed

On a computer and on iPhone nothing is downloaded at all: the browser turns the site into an app with its own icon and a window without an address bar. It takes a couple of taps and almost no disk space.

Android installs from a file

This is the only system where the app is downloaded as a file. The steps go like this:

1. Download the file on the apps page.
2. Open it and allow installing apps from this source.
3. When Android says the app was blocked to protect your device, tap “Install anyway” — the line above the blue button.

The third step looks alarming, but nothing is wrong with the app. Android shows that dialog for every program installed outside Google Play: it simply has not seen this one before. The blue OK button cancels the install — the line above it is the one you want.

What you can do

Everything you can do in Telegram — nothing has been cut:

• switch the assistant on and off, set a delay before it replies
• write what it knows: the prompt, the knowledge base, facts about you, topics and reply style
• upload documents and links it takes its answers from
• keep separate profiles for different kinds of people
• look through conversations and decide what to do with a prepared reply
• set up meeting booking and voice replies
• check your plan, remaining messages and statistics

On a computer it looks different

Simply stretching a phone screen across a wide monitor is a bad idea: you get a narrow strip in the middle and emptiness at the edges. So on a computer the interface is built again from scratch. Navigation on the left, the power button in the middle, and a settings panel that slides in from the right: tap the gear and it appears, tap again and it is gone.

Everything fits on one screen, with no page to scroll. On a phone the browser version looks exactly like the app inside Telegram.

How to sign in

On the home page press “Connect Telegram”. A Telegram page opens where you confirm the login — that is how we know whose settings to show. There is no password to invent.

Common questions

If the assistant is not set up yet, start with the big button: how it works is in the post one button turns the assistant on.