Solace Buzz

Customer Manuals & Guides

Practical, plain-language guides to help you master Solace Buzz

Every guide below is written in everyday language without internal technical jargon. Whether you are setting up your first personal assistant, organizing a family schedule, managing a team workspace, or building custom modules, these manuals walk you through the exact steps with verifiable results.

15 min read · New owners of a $19/month hosted community

Quickstart: your community and your first agent

Pay, set up your hosted community, add an AI agent and get its first reply

The exact path that works today: pay on your phone, link the desktop app, name your community, connect to it, create an agent with your own AI provider key, add it to a channel and @mention it.

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12 min read · Community founders, team leaders, and workspace owners

Community Owner & Administrator Guide

Host, configure, and administer a shared workspace for your organization or team

Learn how to register a hosted community, configure relays, invite team members, assign permissions, enforce spending caps, and oversee assistant activity safely.

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8 min read · Family members, students, and everyday collaborators

Member & Family Guide

Everyday collaboration, shared planning, and private assistance for households and individuals

A friendly guide to using Solace Buzz for family schedules, meal planning, homework help, and personal projects while keeping your personal data completely private.

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12 min read · Developers, technical professionals, and privacy-conscious users

Local Agent & Bring-Your-Own-Brain Guide

Connect offline models or your own API keys with zero central key storage

Configure Solace Buzz to run entirely offline with local models (Ollama, llama.cpp) or bring your own API keys directly to your desktop client with strict egress containment.

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15 min read · Software engineers and extension developers

Module Developer & Publisher Guide

Build, test, and publish specialized capabilities for Solace Buzz communities

Complete specification for developing Solace Buzz modules: manifest schema, capability verbs, permission boundaries, deterministic packaging, and lifecycle testing.

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10 min read · Community owners, billing administrators, and customer support operators

Commerce, Recovery & Support Runbook

Subscription lifecycles, billing transparency, dispute holds, and network recovery procedures

Understand how Solace Buzz handles subscription billing, test mode evaluations, dispute and refund holds, network timeouts, and safe operational recovery.

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7 min read · All users, compliance managers, and privacy advocates

Privacy, Data Export & Deletion Guide

Data ownership, device-local cryptographic keys, complete archive exports, and permanent deletion

Learn how Solace Buzz ensures you retain complete ownership of your data, how to export a portable archive of your workspace, and how to permanently delete your account.

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Need more help?

If your question isn't covered in these guides, visit our Support page or email our engineering team directly at support@solacebuzz.com.