Interface Overview
A tour of Arketic's interface — where everything is, what you can click, and how the menu changes with your role.
Main Layout
Arketic has a simple two-part layout, plus a notification bell.
| Area | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sidebar (left) | Your navigation: menu items, your recent chats, and your user card |
| Content area (right) | The main workspace — it changes with the page you're on |
| Notification bell (top-right) | Your in-app notifications |
There is no top navigation bar with menus, search, or an avatar menu. The only control in the top area is the notification bell — and on phones, the menu button that opens the sidebar. Everything else lives in the sidebar, including Settings and Help & Support at the bottom.
The Sidebar
Top of the sidebar
| Element | What it does |
|---|---|
| Arketic AI logo | Takes you back to the chat home screen |
| Collapse / expand button | Shrinks the sidebar to icons only, or opens it back up (desktop only) |
| New Chat button | Starts a fresh conversation |
Hovering the collapse button shows Collapse sidebar or Expand sidebar, depending on its current state. When the sidebar is collapsed you still see every icon — hover one to see its name. The sidebar opens again when you move to another page.
See Starting a Chat for what happens after you click New Chat.
Navigation: what you see depends on your role
The menu is built from your roles. The lists below show what each primary role sees by default: Members see a short, flat list. Executives see the same list plus a few extras. Admins see the same items organised into collapsible groups.
Your administrator can add custom roles on top of your primary role, and each one can add items to your menu — so your menu may contain more than the default list for your role.
:::info Do you manage a department? If you are the manager of a top-level department, you also get Blueprints and Knowledge Base — even if your role would not normally include them. :::
If you're a member
Your menu is a plain, flat list — no groups.
| Item | Where it takes you |
|---|---|
| Projects | Your projects — see Projects Overview |
| Assistants | The assistants you can chat with — see Browsing Assistants |
| Tasks | Your task board — see Tasks Overview |
| Blueprints | Only if you manage a department — see Blueprints Overview |
| My Documents | Your own documents — see Managing Documents |
Below these you'll find Recent and your recent conversations. At the very bottom sit Settings, Help & Support and your user card.
If you manage a department, a Platform section also appears above Recent, containing Knowledge Base.
If you're an executive
Your menu is also a flat list, with extras at the top and bottom.
| Item | Where it takes you |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Your organization dashboard — see Dashboard |
| Projects | Your projects |
| Assistants | The assistants you can chat with |
| Tasks | Your task board |
| Blueprints | See Blueprints Overview |
| My Documents | Your own documents |
| Knowledge Base | Your organization's shared knowledge — see Knowledge Base Overview |
| Org Chart | Your organization chart, read-only — see Org Chart |
Then Recent and your recent conversations. At the bottom: Analytics, Settings, Help & Support, and your user card.
As an executive you can view the Org Chart, but not manage it. Creating departments and users stays with administrators.
If you're an admin
Your menu is organised into collapsible groups.
| Group | Items, in order |
|---|---|
| WorkSpace | Projects, Assistants, Tasks, Blueprints, My Documents, AI Assistants, Models & Providers |
| Platform | Knowledge Base, Workflows, Prompts |
| Organization | Org Chart, Departments, Users |
Dashboard sits above the groups. Then Recent and your recent conversations. At the bottom: Analytics, Settings, Help & Support, and your user card.
A group opens by itself when you're on a page inside it, so you always see where you are. When you collapse the sidebar, the groups close.
:::caution Two different "Assistants" items Assistants and AI Assistants are not the same screen.
- Assistants is the everyday list of assistants you and your colleagues chat with.
- AI Assistants is the admin screen where those assistants are created and configured — see Assistant Configuration. :::
If your role is Restricted
A Restricted account starts with no access. Until your administrator adds a role, the sidebar has no New Chat, no menu items and no recent conversations — only Settings, Help & Support and your user card — and the main area shows "You don't have access to any features yet". Once roles are added, you see exactly the items they allow.
Menu items by role at a glance
| Menu item | Member | Executive | Admin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | — | Yes | Yes |
| Projects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Assistants | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tasks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Blueprints | Only if you manage a department | Yes | Yes |
| My Documents | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI Assistants | — | — | Yes |
| Models & Providers | — | — | Yes |
| Knowledge Base | Only if you manage a department | Yes | Yes |
| Workflows | — | — | Yes |
| Prompts | — | — | Yes |
| Org Chart | — | Yes (read-only) | Yes |
| Departments | — | — | Yes |
| Users | — | — | Yes |
| Recent / All Chats | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Analytics | — | Yes | Yes |
| Settings | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Help & Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
This table shows the defaults. A custom role can add any of the "—" items for an individual person.
Can't find a menu item you expected? Either your roles don't include it, or — for Tasks and Blueprints — your organization's package doesn't. Ask your administrator — see Roles & Permissions.
Recent conversations
Just under the navigation you'll find your chat history.
| Element | What it does |
|---|---|
| Recent | Opens your full conversation history |
| The list below it | Your most recent conversations — click one to reopen it |
| All Chats | Also opens your full conversation history |
A conversation that hasn't been given a title yet appears as New conversation. While the list is loading you'll see a small spinner, and if you haven't chatted yet you'll see No conversations yet.
More on this in Chat History.
Settings and Help & Support
Two items sit at the bottom of the sidebar for every role, just above your user card.
| Item | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Settings | Your profile, AI preferences, notifications and interface language. Administrators also find organization-wide options here — see Account Settings |
| Help & Support | The in-app help page: ask the help assistant a question, read the answers to common questions, jump to a screen you can reach, open the documentation and look up keyboard shortcuts — see Help & Support |
While Settings is open, the sidebar shrinks to icons to give the page more room. Use the expand button next to the logo if you want it back.
Press ? anywhere outside a text field to open Help & Support without reaching for the sidebar. You can switch this key off on the Help & Support page.
Inside Settings, a few options still carry a blue Soon label and can't be opened yet. The Settings item itself is fully available.
Your user card
The card at the very bottom of the sidebar shows:
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Avatar | Your photo if you've got one, otherwise your initials |
| Name | Your full name |
| Role | Your primary role, in blue — for example Member, Executive, or Admin |
Your initials come from your name: the first letter of your first name plus the first letter of your last name (so "Eren Kekiç" becomes "EK"). If you only have one name, the first two letters are used.
Click the card — or the ⋮ button on its right — to open its menu.
| Menu option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Profile | Opens your profile — your name, photo and password. See Profile |
| Sign Out | Ends your session and returns you to the sign-in screen |
To close the menu without choosing anything, press Esc or click anywhere outside it. See Signing In to get back in after signing out.
Notifications
On a desktop screen the bell is a button fixed in the top-right corner. It stays there on every page except one: it is hidden while the workflow editor is open, so that it doesn't cover the editor's own buttons. On a phone the bell sits in the top bar that also holds the menu button.
A red badge shows how many unread notifications you have; if there are more than 99 it shows 99+. The bell gives a short shake when something new arrives.
Click the bell to open the Notifications panel.
| Element | What it does |
|---|---|
| Mark all as read | Appears in the panel header when you have unread notifications — clears them all at once |
| A notification row | Shows an icon, the title, an optional detail line, and how long ago it arrived ("now", "5m", "3h", "2d") |
| Unread rows | Highlighted so they stand out from the ones you've already seen |
| Load more | Appears when there's older history; it tells you how many are left |
| No notifications | Shown when your list is empty |
Clicking a notification marks it as read, closes the panel and takes you to what it's about:
| Notification | What opens |
|---|---|
| A workflow is waiting for your approval | The approval page, where you give your answer — see Approvals in workflows |
| Something about a specific task — assigned, commented on, completed, deadline approaching | That task, in Tasks |
| A service request or a blueprint step | The Tasks area |
| Anything else | Nothing opens — the notification is only marked as read |
Task and service request notifications open Tasks only when Tasks is part of your organization's package and you can reach it. If it isn't, the notification stays in your list but clicking it doesn't open anything.
What you get notified about — examples include: a task assigned to you or taken off you, task reminders and deadlines approaching, new comments and mentions on a task, an approval you need to give, an approval that was rejected, a task completed or cancelled, a new subtask, escalations, response-time warnings and breaches, a completed blueprint, cross-department requests, new or resolved service requests, and a workflow waiting for your approval.
More detail in Notifications Overview and Notification Bell.
Content Area
The right-hand side changes with the menu item you pick.
| Page | What you see |
|---|---|
| Chat | Your conversation with the assistant — see Starting a Chat |
| Tasks | Your task board — see Kanban Board |
| Projects | Your projects — see Projects Overview |
| My Documents | Your documents — see Managing Documents |
| Dashboard | An overview of your workspace — see Dashboard |
| Analytics | Your organization's numbers — see Analytics |
| Org Chart | Your organization chart — see Org Chart |
On a Phone or Tablet
Arketic adapts to smaller screens.
| What changes | How it behaves |
|---|---|
| Sidebar | Slides in over the page instead of sitting beside it |
| Menu button | Sits in a top bar that stays visible as you scroll — tap it to open the sidebar |
| Notification bell | Sits in that same top bar |
| Picking anything | Tapping a menu item or a conversation closes the sidebar for you |
| Settings | The menu button is not shown while Settings is open — tap Home at the top of the Settings page to leave it |
For the best experience, use Arketic on a desktop or laptop. The full-screen editors — Workflows and Blueprints — need the room.
Next Steps
- Signing In — get into your account
- First Steps — your first chat, task, and document
- Help & Support — the help page inside Arketic
- Starting a Chat — how conversations work