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After creating your account, brand-new users land on a Welcome to Cognee Cloud splash — Your AI memory layer. Click Let’s go → to begin onboarding. You can also reach onboarding at any time from the sidebar under Onboarding.
On your first sign-in a Personal Workspace is created for you automatically — there is no naming step. The welcome screen appears right away while the workspace finishes provisioning in the background. You can create additional workspaces later and give them a name. Uploaded data lands in your default_dataset.

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Choose how to start

Onboarding opens with How do you want to start? and offers three paths:

Claude Code

Connect your Claude Code agent to Cognee Cloud as a memory layer.

Codex

Connect your Codex agent to Cognee Cloud as a memory layer.

Company Brain

Upload your own data and build a searchable knowledge graph.

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Company Brain flow

If you choose Company Brain, onboarding guides you through three steps.
1

Connect your data

Drag files into the drop zone, click to browse, or paste text content directly. Supported formats: PDF, CSV, TXT, Markdown, and JSON.
2

Building your memory

Cognee processes your data automatically: Setting up workspace → Uploading files → Building knowledge graph. This runs the same pipeline as the cognify operation. Processing time depends on the volume of data.
3

Ask cognee anything

Once your knowledge graph is ready, enter a natural language query and Cognee searches the graph and returns contextual results — the same mechanism as recall and search. When you’re ready, click Connect my agent now →.

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Agent flow (Claude Code / Codex)

If you choose Claude Code or Codex, onboarding helps you wire your agent into Cognee Cloud.
1

Copy your credentials

Copy the COGNEE_BASE_URL and COGNEE_API_KEY values shown on screen and set them in your environment.
2

Install the plugin

Install the Cognee plugin (Claude Code) or skill (Codex) so your agent can upload and recall memory.
3

Upload and recall a sample

Have your agent upload or recall a sample to confirm the connection is working.
4

Watch for live detection

When activity reaches Cognee Cloud you’ll see Connected — activity detected in Cognee Cloud. Then click Go to Dashboard →.
You can skip the onboarding at any point and return to it later. All progress is preserved.

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Next steps

Overview

Overview of your workspace, stats, and quick actions.

Open Brains

Manage your data and knowledge graphs.

Connect an agent

Use Cognee as memory for your agent.

Cloud functionality

Explore the full API surface available in Cognee Cloud.