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Set up the AI assistant (bring your own key)

Connect your own account at an AI company, name the assistant, give it instructions, set a monthly limit and choose whether it can look things up.

KeyUp never provides an AI. The assistant comes with Plus and every plan above it, and it runs only on the Space owner’s own AI key. The Space owner or an admin connects it with their own account at an AI company (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or an OpenAI compatible service such as DeepSeek, Groq, Fireworks, xAI or Perplexity) and pays that company directly. KeyUp doesn’t charge for AI. Each room has its own switch, off in every new room. The assistant has no access to anyone’s ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account, bank or calendar: it gets the question, the recent room conversation people shared with it, the assistant’s name and the Space owner’s instructions. With lookups on, it also gets a search instruction to use the provider’s own web search for current facts.

Find it (owners and admins)

Phone

  1. From the room: tap the three dots on the room page › Space settings › AI assistant.
  2. Or: People tab › your Space › Space settings › AI assistant.
  3. Members don’t see the Space settings row. Room settings has the row too.
Room settings for #dispatch: Space settings, Name and Description, Kind of room (Walkie room or Chat room), Keep a copy of talks (“Voice clips for 1 hour, text for 7 days”), Translate talks, Assistant in this room, Who can join, People in this room and Advanced.
Room settings.

iPhone

  1. In the iPhone app (in private testing), from the room: tap the three dots on the room screen › Space settings › AI assistant.
  2. Or: Room settings › Space settings › AI assistant. Owners and admins only.

Web app

  1. From the room: tap the three dots on the room card › Room settings › Space settings › AI assistant.
  2. Or: Switch Space › Space settings › AI assistant. Owners and admins only.

Watch

Set up the assistant on the phone, the web app or the iPhone.

Connect your provider

  1. Pick the Provider: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or OpenAI compatible.
  2. OpenAI compatible is for DeepSeek, Groq, Fireworks, xAI, Perplexity and others. It needs the provider’s web address.
  3. Paste your API key. On the phone, the eye on the field says Show key or Hide key. Leave Model empty to use the default shown in the field, or type a model name.
  4. Add a name, instructions and a monthly question limit. Test the key, or delete it.

Let the assistant look things up

  1. The switch Let the assistant look things up is on to start with. Weather, news, scores and other live facts come from your provider’s own web search.
  2. It works with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini. Your provider bills each search on your key, at its own price.
  3. With the switch off (Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini), the assistant says it can’t look things up here. It still helps with what it knows.
  4. On an OpenAI compatible connection the switch is hidden: KeyUp adds no search, and the provider answers as it does on its own. Some, like Perplexity, search by themselves.
  5. When an answer used the web or gives a link, with any provider, lookups on or off, a separate chat message follows it that starts with Sources: and lists up to three links. It is never read aloud.

In each room

Phone

  1. Room settings › AI assistant › Assistant in this room. Off says “Off. Turn it on so people here can ask it.”
  2. Optional: Answer to a wake phrase in Space settings, off until you turn it on. The phrase is “Hey” and the assistant’s name, for example “Hey Max”, or “Hey Assistant” for an assistant that kept the default name. It follows the name if you rename the assistant. Type your own phrase instead and it stays as you typed it.
  3. Optional: Longest spoken answer (30 sec, 60 sec, 90 sec or No limit) in Space settings.
Room settings for #dispatch: Space settings, Name and Description, Kind of room (Walkie room or Chat room), Keep a copy of talks (“Voice clips for 1 hour, text for 7 days”), Translate talks, Assistant in this room, Who can join, People in this room and Advanced.
Room settings.

Web app and iPhone

Owners and admins: Room settings › Talk limits has Longest spoken answer.

Still stuck? Email [email protected]. Tell us your phone and watch model and what you tried.