Getting started
1. Sign up
Click Try Loomon the landing page. You'll be sent to Clerk to confirm your email; we never ask for a password. After verification you land on a one-screen onboarding flow that asks for a project name (think "side-project Q3" or "newsletter v2") and an optional API key. If you skip the key, Loom marks model spend up by roughly ten percent and bills it through Stripe. If you bring a key, you pay only the $0.02-per-step orchestration fee.
Every new account is granted $10 of free credit. No card required to sign up; we'll prompt for a payment method when you hit zero.
2. Run your first agent
From /chat, type a brief like:
Fetch the top 10 stories from Hacker News and write me a
one-sentence summary of each, sorted by score. Save to
final/hn.md.Hit send. The trace panel on the right starts streaming — you'll see the planner draft a plan, then a worker call web_fetch, then a critic check the result. Total cost shows up in the bottom of the panel and ticks every five seconds.
3. Find your artifact
Anything an agent writes to final/ auto-promotes to the Artifacts panel. Open /artifacts, click your file, and you'll see a live preview (markdown rendered, code in Monaco, PR diffs in side-by-side, datasets as a tiny histogram). Star to keep it past the 90-day retention; share to mint a public read-only link.
That's the full loop: brief → swarm → artifact. Everything else in Loom is a more elaborate version of those three steps.