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This guide walks you through everything you need to go from a new account to a working WhatsApp bot. You’ll build and test a fully working bot before ever connecting your own WhatsApp Business number — connecting WhatsApp is the last step, and it’s what takes your bot live.
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Create your account

Go to paigeme.dev and sign up. You can create an account with your email address or sign in with Google.After signing up with email, Paige will send you a verification link. Open the email and click the link to confirm your address before continuing.
Google sign-in skips the email verification step and gets you into the dashboard faster.
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Create your first project

When you log in for the first time, Paige automatically creates a project called My First Bot and takes you straight to it. You don’t need to do anything — the project is ready to use.A project is your workspace for a single bot. It comes with its own bot code, database, conversation history, and settings. You don’t need a WhatsApp number to start building — that comes later. Every new project includes a 14-day free trial with full access to every paid feature — Conversations, Broadcasts, Deploy, and your bot running on a connected WhatsApp number — so you can build and prove your bot end to end before subscribing. If you want to build a second bot for a different use case, you can create additional projects from the dashboard at any time.
If you already have projects from a previous session, Paige opens the most recently used one instead of creating a new one.
A short intro walks you through what Paige does when you first open a project — six slides covering prompting, the preview, testing on Paige Dev, connecting your number, deploying, and getting help. Skip dismisses it, and you can replay it later from the checklist.That checklist lives in the header and tracks the same journey: Prompted Paige, Tried the preview, Tested on Paige Dev, Connected WhatsApp, Deployed your bot, and Explored help & docs. It ticks each row off as you go, so you can always see what’s left.
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Build your bot with the AI assistant

Your project has three columns: the chat on the left, whichever tab you’re on in the middle, and the phone preview on the right. The tabs across the top are Code, Flows, Conversations, Broadcasts, Tools, and Settings — plus Preview, which shows and hides that right-hand phone.Start on the Code tab and type a description of what you want your bot to do into the chat. For example:
“When someone messages me, greet them by name and ask if they want to know our opening hours or our location.”
The AI reads your request and writes (or rewrites) the bot code for you. You can keep refining it by sending follow-up messages — ask it to add conditions, change the wording, or handle edge cases.
You don’t need to know how to code to use the AI builder. Describe what you want in plain language and iterate from there. If you do know how to code, the middle column shows you exactly what it wrote.
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Test your bot with the preview and Paige Dev

You don’t need a WhatsApp number to test your bot. Paige gives you two test surfaces:
  • The in-app preview — the phone on the right. Message your bot there and it responds immediately, no setup at all.
  • Paige Dev — a shared WhatsApp number that runs your bot on real WhatsApp, on your actual phone.
To use Paige Dev, go to Settings → Project and find the Paige Dev — test on your phone card. Enter your phone number and click Link phone. Message the Paige Dev number from your phone and your project’s bot answers.Everything you do here runs against your preview copy, so test bookings and test data never touch anything real. See Testing your bot for the full walkthrough.
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Connect WhatsApp to take it live

This is the last step — and the only step that requires WhatsApp at all. Once your bot is ready for real users, link your own WhatsApp Business number to take it live.Open your project and go to Settings → WhatsApp. Click Connect WhatsApp to start the Meta embedded signup flow. You’ll log in to your Facebook account, select or create a WhatsApp Business Account (WABA), and choose the phone number you want to use.See Connect your WhatsApp Business number for a full walkthrough of this process, including what to do if you don’t have a WhatsApp Business Account yet.
You need a Facebook account to complete the Meta embedded signup. The phone number you connect must not already be registered as a personal WhatsApp account on an active device.
6

Deploy

Connecting a number gives your bot somewhere to live. Deploy is what actually puts it there.Click Deploy in the top-right. Your first deploy switches your bot on — until then it isn’t answering real customers, only Paige Dev. From that point on, share your WhatsApp Business number with real users and your bot is live.Deploy is also how every later change reaches your customers, and it comes with some choices worth understanding before you press it — see Deploy.

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Stuck? Ask the Help agent

The built-in Help agent answers questions about Paige itself — how a feature works, where something lives, or what a setting does. It’s free, available on every tab, and it’s the fastest way to get unstuck without leaving the app.

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Next steps

Deploy

What actually goes live when you deploy, and what stays behind.

WhatsApp flows

Add interactive multi-screen forms to your bot using WhatsApp Flows.

Broadcasts

Send a message to many customers at once, with opt-out handling built in.

Message templates

Create Meta-approved templates for sending outbound notifications.

Tools

Your bot’s database, media, scheduled tasks, secrets, connectors, and logs.

Billing and credits

How the free trial, credits, and your subscription fit together.