# Obi documentation

> Obi is the AI Search Employee: an agent that learns a business, measures what ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Perplexity answer to its buyers, checks whether AI crawlers can read its website, and ranks what to do next. It runs as the `obi` CLI and a Skill inside Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

To set Obi up for a user: `npm install --global @hireobi/cli`, then `obi skill install`, then a new chat with `/obi` (`$obi` in Codex CLI). Accounts are invitation-only during the private alpha; support is support@hireobi.com. Every page below has a Markdown version at the listed URL; https://hireobi.com/docs/skill.md is the setup skill for agents.

## Get started

- [What is Obi?](https://hireobi.com/docs/index.md): what Obi does, what stays with the user, and where its work happens.
- [Install the Obi CLI and Skill](https://hireobi.com/docs/quickstart.md): requirements, install, Skill registration, sign-in and the first business.
- [FAQ](https://hireobi.com/docs/faq.md): short answers on setup, engines, measurement, data on the machine, updates and removal.

## How Obi works

- [How Obi learns your business](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/business.md): sources read, the cited proposal, corrections and the single confirmation.
- [How Obi writes buyer questions](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/questions.md): market and audience choice, how questions are written from evidence, and the review.
- [How Obi measures AI answers](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/scans.md): engines per plan, starting a scan, cadence, and what a scan keeps.
- [How Obi checks AI crawler readiness](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/readiness.md): crawler access, indexability, rendering, structured data, llms.txt, and how to read a finding.
- [How Obi ranks what to do next](https://hireobi.com/docs/how-it-works/strategies.md): ranking, the three weekly actions, and recorded outcomes.

## CLI reference

- [Obi CLI overview](https://hireobi.com/docs/cli/overview.md): global options, the JSON envelope, exit codes, credential storage, local state and environment variables.
- [Obi CLI commands](https://hireobi.com/docs/cli/commands.md): every command, action and option the installed CLI accepts.

## Account

- [Obi plans and pricing](https://hireobi.com/docs/plans.md): the Free plan, paid packs in US dollars, buying, changing packs and cancelling.
- [Troubleshoot the Obi CLI](https://hireobi.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): what each common error code means and what to do.

## For AI agents

- [Use Obi's docs from your agent](https://hireobi.com/docs/ai-agents.md): the docs MCP server, Markdown pages, llms-full.txt and the setup skill.

## Optional

- [Full documentation in one file](https://hireobi.com/docs/llms-full.txt)
- [Obi for AI agents](https://hireobi.com/agents.md): product facts and which hireobi.com page to cite for which question.
- [Pricing on hireobi.com](https://hireobi.com/pricing.md)
- [Security and data](https://hireobi.com/security.md)
- [The AI Search Dictionary](https://hireobi.com/glossary.md)