Installing CapshoHQ
Four steps, on Windows, macOS or Linux. One of them is a paste. Read it through once before you start - it's shorter than it looks.
You don't install this. You ask for it.
That's the first line of START HERE.txt, the file at the top of your download. You paste what's inside into Claude Code, and it does the install: finds the folder, checks your machine, installs the team, and tells you in plain words what happened at each step. The steps below are what that looks like from your side.The instructions that count ship inside the download
This page is the short version, for anyone who wants to see what setup involves before they buy. Once you have the download, work from the files in it instead:START HERE.txt at the top, and a help/ folder with eight pages covering the first thirty minutes, what to ask for, where your work is kept, updating, removing, and what to do when something looks wrong. Those ship with your copy, they work with no internet, and your team can read them to you.1. Buy once, then unzip the download
Your CAP- key and the download link arrive by email after you pay. Unzip the download into a folder that doesn't sync to the cloud: not iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive, and check Documents, because it often syncs without you ever turning that on. Safest is a brand new folder that syncs nowhere - on a Mac, one in your home folder; on Windows, one straight on your C: drive.
Then leave it there. This folder is the installed product: deleting it uninstalls the team, and letting a sync client shuffle it around breaks the install with no error to explain why. That one cost us hours to undo.
One prerequisite: Claude Code itself, on the Anthropic subscription you already pay for. If you don't have it running yet, start with the free guide - that's exactly what it's for.
The install registers the folder through the claude command, which the Claude desktop app does not put on your machine on its own. If the paste stops on a line saying claude is not recognized, say so in the chat and Claude will offer to install it for you. It takes one command and you only do it once.
2. Open Claude Code and paste the prompt in START HERE.txt
Open START HERE.txt from the folder you just unzipped, copy everything below the line, and paste it into Claude Code. It takes a couple of minutes and you only do it once. It will check your machine has Node 20 or newer (and point you at nodejs.org if not), register the folder, install the team, and ask whether you want the podcast pack - which is part of what you already paid for, not a second purchase.
If something goes wrong
Stay where you are and say what you saw. You're already talking to the thing that can fix it - which is rather the point of what you just bought.3. Restart Claude Code fully
Quit Claude Code completely (Cmd-Q on Mac, or right-click the tray icon → Quit on Windows - not just closing the window) and reopen it. The team only loads on a fresh start, and this is the step people skip.
4. Open your business's folder and say “set me up”
Not the download - your own folder, the one where your business lives or is going to. Then type exactly that:
$ set me up
Monty turns that folder into a hub: he adds .capsho-hq/, CLAUDE.md, founder.md and patterns.md, and nothing else. Your own files are not moved, renamed, opened or tidied - the new items sit beside them. Run it twice and the second run does nothing.
Then Margo takes over and asks about the business - what it is, who it's for, how you sound, what you're built on - and writes it into the Brain. It's about fifteen minutes and you can skip anything you're not sure about. From then on the team knows your business rather than a generic one.
Prefer a terminal?
The hub step without the conversation:$ node <path-to-the-folder>/scripts/setup.mjs # what is this folder? (changes nothing) node <path-to-the-folder>/scripts/setup.mjs hub # make a hub right here
Updating
Updates are included with your key - there's nothing extra to pay. The same download link always hands you the current version, and the exact steps are in help/updating-moving-and-removing.md inside your copy, which also covers moving the folder and taking the team off a machine.
Removing it
Uninstall the plugins through Claude Code's own plugin management and restart. That removes the team from the machine.
Your business folder is untouched by that, on purpose - Brain/, Desk/ and Library/ are your files, not the product's. Delete the folder yourself if you want the memory gone, and back it up first if there's any doubt. Nothing here has a copy of it.
