Accounts, sign-in and the dashboard
Reply Pilots is two halves — a dashboard that holds everything shaping your drafts, and an extension that is a client for it. Signing in to the dashboard once lets the extension exchange that session for its own token, so there is nothing to configure by hand. Every setting lives in your account rather than in the browser, which is why a reinstall or a second machine needs no reconfiguration.
How the two halves fit together
| The dashboard | The extension | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | app.reply-pilots.com | The page you are writing on |
| Holds | Business context, voice, platform toggles, history, usage, billing | A token, and a cached copy of your settings |
| Does | Stores what shapes a draft | Reads the page, asks the server, inserts the draft |
| Talks to an AI provider | Yes, server-side | No, never |
The division is also the security model. The extension holds no provider key, so nothing sensitive sits in your browser and nothing is exposed by the page you are on.
Signing in
- Open app.reply-pilots.com and sign in.
- The extension detects the session and requests a token scoped to your account.
- The popup switches to Connected.
You do not paste anything, and there is no separate extension login. If the popup still shows a signed-out state after you have signed in, open the popup again — it re-checks on open.
When the session expires
Tokens do not last forever, and signing out of the webapp ends the extension's access too.
The symptom is the panel reporting that you are signed out at the moment you press the button. The fix is always the same: open app.reply-pilots.com, sign in, and try again.
Two related behaviours worth knowing:
- Signing out clears your per-site mutes. Mutes belong to the account, not to the browser.
- Your settings are not lost. They live in your account, so signing back in restores everything.
Using more than one machine
Install the extension on each machine and sign in to the dashboard on each. Both get their own token; both read the same settings. There is nothing to export or copy across.
What is in the dashboard
A deliberately short list of screens:
- Dashboard — an overview, plus your usage.
- Planner — the content board. See The content planner.
- Library — every generation you have made, searchable. See History and library.
- Settings — your account, your voice, platform toggles, your own AI key, and the extension download.
Everything that changes what a draft says lives in the dashboard. The extension is a client — if a draft comes out wrong, the fix is almost always a dashboard setting rather than something in the panel.
More on this on the blog: Setup articles