# Make your own bot
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/work-together/chat/make-a-bot

Create a bot with its own job and voice, let it run on a schedule, and control who can change it.
Make a bot for a job your team does often. Every bot can read your tracks, artists, contacts and shows.

## Create a bot [#create-a-bot]

1. Press **+** next to **Bots** in the chat list.
2. Give it a name, a colour and what it does.
3. Choose what it can do (its skills) and how it writes: tone, length, emoji and language.
4. Add up to four starter questions.
5. Under **Passes questions to**, pick who answers when the bot can't.

Or ask the **Bot maker** to design one with you in a conversation. **Import** on the Bots page copies a bot from its share link, crediting who made it.

## Let it run on its own [#let-it-run-on-its-own]

Under **Runs on its own**, pick when the bot works without you: every day, every week, every month, a custom time like "weekdays at 9:00", or right after another bot finishes. Analyst can report every Monday and Marketing can turn that report into posts straight after.

You can also ask in any chat: "check my inbox every weekday at 9" or "check the release numbers on Friday". Each run lands in your chat with the bot and notifies you.

If three runs in a row go unread for over a week, the bot pauses itself. Resume it from its menu under **Bots**.

<Callout>
  Bots that run on their own, and running the opportunity scout, need the Max plan.
</Callout>

## Share a bot with your roster [#share-a-bot-with-your-roster]

An organisation can share a bot with **Every team on the roster**. Every artist team it works with gets the bot, including teams that join later. Only the organisation can change it.

## Who can change a bot [#who-can-change-a-bot]

Members make bots. A bot's maker and your admins can edit, pause or delete it. Everyone else can use it and customise their own copy. A paused bot doesn't answer or run until someone resumes it.

## Keep AI spending in check [#keep-ai-spending-in-check]

Organisation owners and admins can see what chats, bots and agents used on **Billing**, and set an **AI limit**. Bring your own AI keys to pay your provider directly and lower your Aden bill.

## Related [#related]

* [Teach bots with skills](/docs/help/work-together/chat/skills)
* [Work with bots](/docs/help/work-together/chat/use-bots)