Build your first ElevenLabs agent

What you will build

An assistant for a fictional studio that answers from a short FAQ. It should state when information is missing and must not claim to book classes or take payments. This series shows the setup and review, not proof that a production agent works.

English video with Avi's narration

1. Create the agent and check private access
2. Write the greeting and system prompt
3. Attach and inspect a fictional FAQ
4. Understand voice, language and response model
5. Review pending changes and saved versions

Before you begin

Use fictional or approved reference material. Check current account charges before any preview, conversation, retrieval test or deployment. The assistant's selected voice is separate from Avi's narration voice. Interface labels may change; these screens were inspected on October 15, 2026.

After the walkthrough

Test known answers, missing prices and booking requests in an approved environment. Inspect actual outputs, set a cost limit and a stop route, verify access in a fresh session, and decide what information may be collected. Do not deploy the fictional FAQ as a real business source.

This is an information-only example, not a deployed service. Authentication was saved for the empty demo and checked as Private in a separate session. The fictional prompt, greeting and FAQ attachment were demonstrated as pending session edits, not published or durably saved. No conversation or retrieval test was run. No booking, payment, phone or website connection was added.

Current product guidance

• ElevenLabs Agents quickstart
• ElevenLabs Agents pricing