Getting Started

This guide walks you through your first minutes on Alien Intelligence — from signing in to understanding where everything lives.

Prerequisites

• A modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge)

Sign Up

Anyone can create an account directly on the platform:

1. Navigate to app.alien.club.
2. Click Get Started. You will be redirected to the sign-in page.
3. Create an account or authenticate using one of the available methods:
   • Email and password
   • Google, GitHub, or another configured OAuth provider
4. After authentication, you are redirected back to the platform.

On first login, the platform automatically creates a personal organization for you. If you were invited to an existing organization, you will be added to it after accepting the invitation.

The Dashboard

After signing in, you land on the dashboard. This is your home base for managing data clusters, datasets, and workflows.

The overview page shows:

• Total Revenue — Your current revenue from data consumption
• Total Consumers — The number of consumers accessing your data
• Top Consumers — A ranked list of your most active consumers
• Top Datasets — Your most popular datasets by usage
• Onboarding Checklist — A progress card that tracks whether you have created a cluster, a dataset, and a workflow, with quick links to complete each step
• Feedback — A card to share feedback directly with the team

Navigation

The left sidebar is the main navigation. At the top is your organization selector (see below). The sidebar is organized into groups:

Group	Section	What You Find There
(top)	Overview	Revenue, top consumers, top datasets, and onboarding checklist
(top)	Consumption	Usage analytics and execution history
My Inputs	Clusters > Resources	Your data clusters, datasets, cluster settings
My Inputs	Clusters > Activity	Recent sync activity and operations
My Outputs	Workflows	AI workflow editor for building processing pipelines with a visual canvas
My Outputs	MCP	AI agent (MCP server) management
Marketplace	Data text	Browse public datasets by category (Health, Science, and more)
Marketplace	Voices	Discover curated voices and content
Organization	Billing	Subscription and usage billing
Organization	API Users	API user management (Enterprise only)
Help	How it works	Platform explainer
Help	Showcases	Example use cases
Help	Help	Contact support and share feedback

The top navigation bar contains a search bar for finding datasets, tags, and workflows across the platform, and a breadcrumb trail showing your current location.

Your Organization

Everything on Alien Intelligence is scoped to an organization. An organization is the boundary for:

• Data clusters — Each cluster belongs to one organization
• Datasets — Created within clusters owned by the organization
• Members — Users who can access the organization's resources
• Billing — Subscription and usage tied to the organization
• API tokens — Scoped to the organization's resources

If you belong to multiple organizations, you can switch organizations from the dropdown at the top-left of the navigation by clicking on your organization name.

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Most users belong to a single organization. If your team has already set up the organization, you can skip straight to working with clusters and datasets.

For Alien Hosted Customers

If your organization uses the Alien Hosted deployment (the default for most customers), your infrastructure is already set up:

• A default data plane is pre-configured and managed by Alien
• You can create data clusters directly from the dashboard
• Infrastructure provisioning, updates, and monitoring are handled by Alien operations

You do not need to set up Kubernetes, deploy operators, or configure networking. Start by creating a data cluster and then creating a dataset.

For On-Premise Enterprise Customers

If your organization deploys data clusters on your own infrastructure, additional setup is required before you can start processing data:

1. Create a data plane — Register your Kubernetes cluster with the platform. See Create a Data Plane.
2. Deploy the operator — Install the data cluster operator on your infrastructure using the registration token.
3. Create data clusters — Once the operator is running and connected, create clusters from the dashboard.

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On-premise deployment requires a team with Kubernetes management experience. Contact us at contact@alien.club if you need guidance on the setup process.

Next Steps

You are ready to start working with data. Choose your path based on your deployment mode:

Alien Hosted (most users):

1. Create a Data Cluster — Provision an isolated environment for your data
2. Create a Dataset — Define a dataset and configure its processing pipeline
3. Upload Documents — Add files to your dataset and watch them get processed
4. Search and Query — Find information across your processed documents

On-Premise (enterprise):

1. Create a Data Plane — Register your Kubernetes infrastructure with the platform
2. Create a Data Cluster — Provision a cluster on your data plane
3. Then follow the Alien Hosted path above starting from step 2