Build Your First AI Workflow in Minutes
Building your first AI workflow in Delaverse takes just a few steps. Follow this quick guide to see how simple it is to create intelligent automation — no coding required.
What You'll Build
By the end of this guide, you'll have created an intelligent Telegram bot that can answer questions based on a PDF document you provide and generate images on demand. This workflow demonstrates the core capabilities of Delaverse - combining AI reasoning, document knowledge, and visual generation in one seamless automation.
Add an AI Assistant Node
The AI Assistant is the brain of your workflow. This node provides the intelligence that understands questions, reasons through problems, and generates responses. Think of it as hiring a smart assistant who can think and communicate naturally.
From the Playground, drag the Assistant Node onto the canvas. This creates the foundation of your workflow - the intelligence layer that will power everything else.
In the Instructions field, write something like: "You are a smart assistant who answers all my questions." These instructions shape how your assistant behaves and responds, similar to giving a new employee their job description.
Choose your AI provider (OpenAI, Grok, or Claude) and select a model. Different models have different strengths - some are faster, some are more creative, some excel at reasoning. For getting started, any model will work beautifully.
Adjust optional settings like temperature (which controls creativity versus consistency) or reasoning level (which affects how deeply the AI thinks through problems). The defaults work great for most use cases.
Save your changes. Your assistant is now configured and ready to think! This node can now understand questions and generate intelligent responses.
Add a Telegram Node
Now we'll connect your AI assistant to the real world through Telegram. This step transforms your workflow from an abstract concept into something you can actually use - a bot you can message from your phone or computer. This is where automation becomes tangible and real.
Drag the Telegram Node onto your canvas. This node acts as the communication bridge between your AI and Telegram's messaging platform.
Open Telegram and find @BotFather, which is Telegram's official bot for creating new bots. Send the command /newbot and follow the prompts to create your bot. BotFather will give you an access token - this is like a password that lets your Delaverse workflow control the bot.
Copy that token and paste it into your Telegram Node configuration. Click the test connection button to verify everything is working. When the connection succeeds, save your settings.
Now comes the crucial step: connect the output of your Assistant Node to the input of your Telegram Node. This creates a data flow where messages from Telegram go to your Assistant for processing, and the Assistant's responses get sent back through Telegram.
Open Telegram on your phone or computer and start a conversation with your bot. Ask it questions and watch as your AI assistant responds! You've just created your first working AI automation - a bot that understands and responds to your messages intelligently.
Add a File Database Node
Now let's give your assistant specialized knowledge by connecting it to a document. This demonstrates one of the most powerful capabilities of AI automation - the ability to make AI an expert on your specific information rather than relying only on its general training. Imagine being able to instantly search and get answers from any document, manual, or book.
Drag the File Database Node onto your canvas. This node allows you to upload documents that your AI can reference when answering questions.
Upload a PDF file - this could be an instruction manual, an academic paper, a book chapter, or any document you want your AI to understand. For this tutorial, try an English book or a document you'd like to be able to ask questions about.
Connect the output of your File Database Node to your Assistant Node. This creates a knowledge pathway where the assistant can access and reference the content of your uploaded file.
Update your assistant's instructions to: "You are a smart assistant who answers only based on the content of this file." This focuses the assistant on using the document knowledge rather than its general training, ensuring accurate, source-grounded responses.
Go back to your Telegram conversation and ask questions about the content of your uploaded file. Your bot will now analyze the document and provide answers based specifically on what's written there. You've transformed a static document into an interactive knowledge base!
Add an Image Generation Node
For the final step, we'll add visual creativity to your workflow. The Image Generation Node allows your AI to create custom images based on text descriptions. This demonstrates how different AI capabilities can work together - your assistant can understand requests, reference document knowledge, AND create visual content, all in one seamless conversation.
Drag the Image Generation Node onto your canvas. This node connects to AI image generation models that can create pictures from text descriptions.
Choose a model (DALL·E 3 or GPT Image 1 both work excellently), set your desired image size and quality level. Higher quality takes longer but produces more detailed, professional results.
Connect the Image Generation Node to your Assistant Node. This allows your assistant to coordinate image creation when appropriate - understanding when a request needs a visual response and generating it automatically.
Update your assistant instructions one final time to: "You are a smart assistant who answers based on the book and creates related images." This tells your assistant it can now both answer questions about the document AND generate relevant images.
Return to your Telegram conversation and ask your bot to create an image related to your document - perhaps asking for a visualization of a concept from the book, or an illustration of a scene described in the text. Watch as your bot generates a custom image and sends it directly in your Telegram chat!
Congratulations! 🎉
You've just built your first intelligent workflow in Delaverse - combining text understanding, document knowledge, and visual generation in one simple, powerful automation. This workflow demonstrates the core principles of building with Delaverse: connecting specialized nodes, each doing one thing well, to create sophisticated automations that would traditionally require teams of developers.
What You Learned
How to use AI Assistant Nodes to add intelligence and reasoning to your workflows
How to connect workflows to real communication channels through App Nodes like Telegram
How to give AI specialized knowledge by connecting File Database Nodes
How to combine multiple AI capabilities (text and images) in a single workflow
The fundamental pattern of building in Delaverse: connect nodes, configure behaviors, create automation
Where to Go Next
Now that you understand the basics, you're ready to explore more advanced capabilities. Here are some paths to continue your journey:
Explore More Nodes
Discover the full library of AI Nodes, Tool Nodes, and App Nodes to expand what your workflows can do
Build AI Agents
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Create Advanced Workflows
Explore scheduling, triggers, API integrations, and complex multi-step automations
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