Getting Started With Elevate (Elivio Copilot): From Sign-Up to Your First Proof of Work

To get started with Elevate (Elivio Copilot), you sign up free, tell it a little about yourself, pick a direction and get a plan. Then you open your next task in the copilot, do the work with the AI beside you, check it against the task's requirements and publish your proof-of-work page. The first loop takes an evening. After that it's just: next task, session, check, repeat.

Here's every step, with the exact buttons you'll see.

What Elevate (Elivio Copilot) is

Elevate, which you'll also see called Elivio Copilot across the product, is an AI copilot for students going from school to college and from college to a first job. You build real projects in any field, and the copilot works beside you and checks each step.

There are two places you'll use:

• Elivio is your home. You sign up here, see your plan, earn badges and publish your proof of work.
• The Copilot (elevate.experimentlabs.in) is where you do the actual work on each task.

The way we put it internally: the Copilot is where you do the work, and Elivio is where you see it and own it. Your sessions in the Copilot automatically update your record in Elivio.

The rule behind the whole product is "AI-assisted, never AI-generated." The copilot helps you through the work. It doesn't do it for you. That's what makes your finished proof of work worth sharing.

Step 1: Sign up free

Go to the Elevate (Elivio Copilot) page and click Start free. Sign-up takes three short screens:

1. Create your account. Use Google, or enter your email and click Continue.
2. Nice to meet you. Add your name and where you study, then click Next.
3. Pick a password, then click Set up my space.

There's no card needed to start. If you already have an account, use Sign in instead.

Step 2: Pick a direction and get your plan

New students land on the Journey tab, which walks you through six steps in order: About you, Direction, Plan, Do the work, What it built and Share.

About you asks a few questions so the plan fits you.

Direction is where you choose what you want to work towards. The screen says Pick your direction. Take this seriously. My tip: pick the direction you're actually curious about, not the one that sounds most impressive. You'll be spending weeks on it.

Plan builds your plan. You'll see Building your plan… and then Now, a plan that fits. The plan is broken into weeks and milestones.

Your Profile score, out of 800, appears once you finish the first step and grows as you complete work.

Step 3: Open your first task in the Copilot

At Do the work, you'll see Your next task. with a button: Start session (or Resume session if you've started before). The Copilot opens in a new tab, and you're signed in automatically.

In the Copilot, your tasks live on the Plan page. At the top you'll see what you'll have at the end, how far through you are and how many milestones you've completed. Each week shows By the end of this week: and its tasks. You can also Add custom task if something's missing.

Click a task to open the AI Copilot Coach panel. It shows the Task Description, lets you link GitHub, Figma or a Google Doc, and has a chat box: Ask Copilot for tips, links, or templates...

If a counsellor assigned your work, things look slightly different: you'll accept an activity, choose an idea and then click Start with Copilot. The Copilot home, called Student Action Desk, shows those under Planned Activities.

Step 4: Work through the task with the copilot

Click Start on a task to begin a working session. You'll see Ready when you are with three choices:

• Share screen and start. The copilot can see what you see.
• Start without it. Text chat only.
• Connect the app. Uses the desktop app (more on that below).

If you choose to share your screen and talk, there's a mode called Work with me: share your screen, talk it through, and the copilot sees what you see and answers out loud.

The first time, you'll see a consent screen before the copilot sees your screen or hears you. It explains where your screen and voice go: they're processed by Google's Gemini so the copilot can respond, and screen images are held in the server's memory for up to 10 minutes and not saved. You choose Agree and continue or Not now. I'd read it properly once. It's short and clear.

During the session, two buttons matter most:

• Ask for help when you're stuck.
• Check if I'm done when you think you've finished.

The + menu lets you Attach a document, Link to this task (GitHub, Figma or a Google Doc), or Pop out copilot into its own window.

Step 5: Check your work and finish the session

Check if I'm done runs a completion check against the task's requirements and shows a checklist. If everything's met, Mark complete appears. If not, you'll see what's missing and a nudge to keep going and check again.

This is the bit I'd encourage you not to skip. The checks are what turn "I did a project" into verified work that other people can trust.

When you're finished for the day, click End Session. The copilot writes up what you worked on in a Session Summary, including any knowledge gaps it noticed. You'll then see a message that your proof of work was updated in Elivio.

Step 6: Publish your proof of work

Back in Elivio, open Proof of Work, described as "the page you send instead of a resume." Click Publish my proof of work.

If it works, you'll see Your page is live. It keeps updating as you work, so you don't need to publish again after each task.

If you see Not ready to publish yet, it's usually because there's nothing verifiable on the page yet. You need either a working evidence link or a passed completion check. Finish a session on at least one activity first.

Your published page shows your activities, verified skills, evidence links and your consistency streak, with each piece of work marked when the task was verified. Our guide on building a proof-of-work portfolio covers what makes these pages convincing.

Step 7: Share it

Click Share it, then choose whether to share everything you've built or a single milestone. You'll get options to Copy link, Copy post text, Open LinkedIn and Copy skills.

You can also click Create launch video to make a short video of your work. It takes about a minute.

We cover the sharing side in detail in how to share your projects on LinkedIn.

Optional: connect your tools

In the Copilot's Settings, under Integrations, you can Connect GitHub, Figma and Google Docs.

GitHub and Figma connections are read-only. The copilot can look, but it doesn't change your repos or files. Google Docs lets the copilot read, search and edit the doc linked to your task. Connect only what your project actually uses.

Optional: the desktop app

If you click Work on your screen in the Copilot, you'll get the free desktop app for macOS and Windows. It lets the copilot point at things on your actual screen and, on a Mac, help with typing commands that you then run yourself. It isn't required. Our Elevate desktop app guide covers installing it and what it can and can't do.

What it costs

It's free to start: sign up, get your standing and begin your first project, no card needed. Live copilot help beyond the free trial uses credits or a plan. When your trial runs out, the Copilot shows options to top up, and credits you buy roll over for 90 days. You manage your plan in Elivio.

What a good first week looks like

You don't need to do everything in one sitting. Here's a pace that works for most students.

Day 1: sign up, finish About you and Direction, and let it build your plan. Read the first week's tasks so you know what's coming.

Day 2: start your first session on the first task. Keep it to an hour. Use Ask for help freely, because that's what it's there for.

Day 3 or 4: finish the task and run Check if I'm done. Fix anything it flags, then mark it complete and end the session.

Day 5: if you have a working evidence link or a passed check, publish your proof-of-work page. It'll keep updating from here.

Weekend: look back at what you built, read your session summaries, and decide what next week looks like.

The students who get the most out of it aren't the ones who do the most in week one. They're the ones who come back in week two. I'd rather see three short sessions a week than one exhausting one.

Tips from the team

Keep sessions focused. One task per session gives the copilot better context and gives you cleaner proof.

Use Check if I'm done honestly. If it says something's missing, fix it. A page full of verified tasks is worth far more than a page full of claims.

Link real evidence. A GitHub repo, a Figma file or a Google Doc gives people something to click.

Read your session summaries. The knowledge gaps they flag are a ready-made list of what to learn next.

Don't ask it to do the work. You'll get explanations and pointers, not finished assignments. That's deliberate. If you're wondering where the line is, read how to use AI for projects without cheating.

What to do in the next 15 minutes

Sign up, finish About you and Direction, and let it build your plan. Then open your first task and just read the task description in the Copilot. Starting the session can wait until tomorrow, but knowing exactly what's next makes it far more likely you'll come back.

If you're still deciding what to build, our guides on career building for college students and passion project ideas are good places to start.