Help someone get their first useful AI answer

You have a model working on a computer you run. A colleague has a task it could help with. The useful next step is to help them finish that task in their own app, then return without walking through setup together again.

An AI model is the software that produces an answer. Saylek connects apps to models on computers you own or that someone shares with you. If you already have one running on a computer you control, you can invite another person to use it from their own app, without setting up the model on their computer. The same hardware can then help with their work as well as yours.

Running a model on owned hardware is often called local AI. When someone uses a model on your machine, their request travels to that machine: “local” does not mean it stays on their device. Use material appropriate for the machine serving it, and read Privacy and egress for routing details and existing-account exceptions.

Start with a task they already need to do

Consider this illustrative example: a colleague is helping organize a community workshop. They want to turn its public project brief into a short action list covering the venue, speakers and attendee information.

Agree on what a useful answer would contain before connecting anything. In this case, the list should preserve the brief's requirements, separate suggestions from stated commitments, and highlight questions the brief leaves unanswered. The colleague still checks the answer against the original.

That gives you a concrete first prompt:

Turn this public workshop brief into an action list for the venue, speakers and attendee information. Separate requirements stated in the brief from suggested next steps. Flag missing information rather than inventing deadlines or budgets.

The example shows how to choose and evaluate a task; it is not a reported customer result. You can apply the same approach to explaining a public code sample or organizing material approved for the machine you will use.

Make the handoff clear

Before inviting your colleague, check that your machine is connected, the intended model answers a local test, and sharing is switched on. Agree when the machine will be available for their first attempt. If you have sharing hours set, choose a time inside them.

Send a personal invitation and explain the offer in ordinary language: which task you will try, which model to choose, and when you expect the machine to be available. The invitation grants access to what you share; it does not share their machines back with you.

Your colleague accepts using their own account and follows Get your first answer in an app. They create their own application key and connect an app that supports the setup in that guide. You do not need their key, and they should not send it to you.

The handoff guide covers the maintained steps, including expired invitations, the wrong account and an empty model list. Keep those instructions close while you help; the article's job is to make the first attempt worth doing.

Check the answer against the task

Have your colleague send the public brief from their app. An accepted invitation and a saved key are milestones. The useful result is an answer in their app that helps them produce an action list they can use.

For the workshop example, check three things together:

• Does each required action trace back to the brief?
• Are suggested actions clearly separated from commitments?
• Are missing details called out instead of filled in with invented dates, costs or decisions?

If the answer misses the point, narrow the request or try a model suited to the task. If no answer arrives, check access, availability and the app connection before judging the model. A model appearing in the list does not reserve capacity on the machine.

Let them return on their own

Ask your colleague to close the app, reopen it and try another small task without your help, while the machine is available. This checks whether the handoff is usable beyond the first supervised attempt.

They should know that their Sharing page shows who shares with them and which models they can use now. Their Applications page is where they manage their keys. You should both know what to check if something that worked yesterday stops working today.

Once that works, you can repeat the approach with another colleague, a startup participant or someone in another department. Each person follows the same personal invitation and app setup. Start with a task that matters to that person rather than repeating the same demonstration for everyone.

Agree when access should end

Sharing also needs a clear ending. You can pause or remove the person in Sharing when they should no longer use your machines. They can stop using your machines from their side and revoke application keys they no longer need. A request already running may still finish; removing a key from an app is not the same as revoking it.

For your first handoff, choose one person, one suitable task and a time when your machine will be available. Use Help someone get their first useful answer to take them from the invitation to an app they can return to independently.