# What is Perisclaw

Canonical URL: https://docs.perisclaw.com/

**Perisclaw is an AI executive assistant that lives in your WhatsApp and works
with the full context of your conversations.** It keeps you on top of what
matters across WhatsApp, email, calendar, Drive, and any other apps you
connect: the replies you owe, the promises you've made, the meetings coming
up. No need to spell out the background.

It runs through your own WhatsApp number. There is no separate bot or number to
remember. Talk to it in your self-chat, or add `/claw` in another conversation
when you want it to help there.

[See Perisclaw in action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CioPPLwAx8w)

## Start here

### [Set up your assistant](/setup-your-assistant)

Link Perisclaw to your WhatsApp in about a minute.

### [Using Perisclaw](/use-cases)

How to talk to it: in your self-chat, with /claw in any chat, or by voice.

### [Connect your apps](/connecting-apps)

Add Calendar, Drive, Slack, Notion, Microsoft 365, and the other tools you
use.

## What it can do

Start with the work you'd hand to an assistant on day one:

* **Stay on top of commitments.** Perisclaw [tracks the promises](/track-commitments-and-tasks)
  you make and receive, and brings them back before they slip.
* **Organize your chats.** [Label, mute, and archive](/organize-your-whatsapp)
  WhatsApp chats just by asking.
* **Manage your time.** [Schedule meetings](/calendar), set reminders, and
  [send messages later](/schedule-reminders-and-messages).
* **Find anything.** [Search across](/search-across-everything) your allowed
  chats, email, calendar, files, and saved knowledge in plain language.
* **Put work on autopilot.** Set up recurring work like a morning briefing
  with [Automations](/automations), or hand over a goal like chasing five
  invoices and let a [Mission](/missions) follow through.
* **Remember things for you.** Save notes to your
  [personal wiki](/personal-wiki), and let Perisclaw learn
  [your people](/relationship-memory) and [how you work](/personal-memory).
* **Talk instead of typing.** Send a [voice note](/voice) or start a live voice
  conversation.
* **Work across your apps.** Connect [Calendar and Drive](/drive-and-sheets), or
  bring your own tools through [connected apps](/connecting-apps).
* **Teach it your way of working.** Write a [custom skill](/custom-skills) once
  and Perisclaw follows the procedure each time.

> **A useful first request:** What needs my attention today?

## How it stays safe

Your assistant runs in an isolated environment, your data is encrypted, and
you decide which chats and connected apps it may use. Review the full details
in [Privacy & security](/privacy-and-security) and
[Permissions & access](/permissions-and-access).

Start small: ask for one thing in your self-chat, and give it more access as
it earns it.

**Info: You remain in control**

  Review access from [Permissions](/permissions-and-access), manage
  external services from [Apps](/connecting-apps), and use ` /stop` whenever you need to halt current work.

## Ready to begin?

### [Connect your WhatsApp number](/setup-your-assistant)

Follow the visual setup guide and send your first request.

### [See what changed recently](/whats-new)

See what shipped in recent releases.