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Install aYOUne Companion in Chrome

Install aYOUne Companion in Chrome

The aYOUne Companion is a browser extension for Google Chrome. It connects your browser to your aYOUne account: AI Copilot in the side panel, your contacts on LinkedIn and when you hover over email addresses, imports from Amazon and AliExpress with your own stock, your marketing data in Google Search, notifications, quick actions and – if you want – an action bar with your key figures.

In short: open the Companion in the Chrome Web Store → Add to Chrome → this guide opens by itself → pin the icon → sign in. About two minutes.

Before you start

RequirementValue
BrowserGoogle Chrome version 116 or later
Accountan aYOUne account (email and password, Google or Microsoft sign-in)
Computer rightsno administrator rights needed
Timeabout two minutes

Step 1 — Add it from the Chrome Web Store

Open the Companion in the Chrome Web Store: aYOUne Companion in the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.

Chrome asks whether you want to add the extension and lists what it may access – for example "Read and change all your data on all websites". The Companion needs this so that the action bar, the call button and the contact card can appear on any page and so that notices after a right-click show up where you are working. What is sent to your aYOUne account, and when, is described in the privacy policy and on the page Privacy and permissions. Confirm with Add extension.

Step 2 — This guide opens by itself

Right after installing, the Companion opens this guide once in a new tab – in German if your Chrome is set to German, otherwise in English. Later updates open nothing.

Step 3 — Pin the icon

Click the puzzle-piece icon to the right of the address bar, then the pin next to aYOUne Companion. The Companion icon then stays in the toolbar.

Step 4 — Sign in

Click the Companion icon. The window shows the button Sign in with aYOUne.

A click opens a sign-in window of the central aYOUne sign-in (login.ayoune.app); the Companion window shows "Sign-in window opened". Sign in as usual – with email and password, with Google or with Microsoft. The window then closes by itself. The extension never sees or stores your password.

If the sign-in window is behind other windows, look for it in the taskbar. Alternatively, the Companion window offers to sign in in a browser tab instead.

Step 5 — Is it working?

Open the Companion window again. If everything is right, you see:

  • a green dot at the top right instead of a red one,
  • the line Signed in as … with your name and your organization,
  • below it the button Open AI Copilot and the other sections.

Ctrl+Shift+Y opens the side panel with the AI Copilot.

Step 6 — Set up what you need

In the Companion window → Settings you decide what the Companion shows:

  • Action bar: off by default. Switch it on and choose one of your wallboards – a slim bar at the top of web pages then shows its key figures, your notifications and quick actions.
  • Features: every function can be switched on and off individually, many also for specific websites only. Only browser control by the Copilot, the contact card on hover, contact enrichment and the CRM sidebar in Gmail and Outlook are off by default.

Updates

Chrome keeps the Companion up to date by itself. You do not need to do anything; your settings and your sign-in are kept.

Switching from the download version

If you previously loaded the Companion as an archive from the aYOUne download page (developer mode, Load unpacked), remove that version before or after adding the Companion from the Chrome Web Store:

  1. Open chrome://extensions.
  2. On the aYOUne Companion card that is loaded as an unpacked extension, click Remove.
  3. You can then delete the unpacked folder and switch developer mode off again if you do not need it otherwise.

If you see two Companion cards, the store version is the one without "Unpacked extension". Sign in once in the store version and check your settings – settings from an older download version are not always carried over.

Removing the extension

Right-click the Companion icon → Remove from Chrome, or open chrome://extensions → click Remove on the aYOUne Companion card.

A short, voluntary feedback page then opens: you can tick why you removed the Companion and write a message – an email address only if you would like a reply. Simply close the page if you do not want to give feedback. What is stored is described in the privacy policy, section 2.13.

Troubleshooting

What you seeCause and fix
Nothing seems to happen after clicking Sign in with aYOUneThe sign-in window is behind other windows – check the taskbar or choose signing in in a browser tab in the Companion window.
After signing in the window stays signed outClose the Companion window and open it again. If it persists: Settings → Account & organization → Sign-in log shows the last steps; also check whether cookies for login.ayoune.app are blocked.
The action bar does not appearIt is off by default: switch it on in the settings and choose a wallboard. It stays hidden on websites you excluded.
The icon is not visiblePuzzle-piece icon in the toolbar → pin next to aYOUne Companion.
Two Companion iconsAn older download version is still loaded – see Switching from the download version.

Known limitations

  • Languages. Extension window, settings, side panel and the hints in Google Search are available in German and English. The action bar, the right-click menu and the buttons on Amazon, AliExpress and LinkedIn pages currently appear in German. Spanish and Italian cover only parts of the extension window.
  • Functions per account. Which functions you can use depends on the modules of your aYOUne account and your user rights.

Questions? Open the AI Copilot in the Companion or contact your aYOUne representative.

Work with this page

Ready-made instructions for your AI tool. Copy, paste, go — the AI fetches the content itself via the address in the text.

Summarise the steps for me The essentials, in the right order.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Summarise the content for me.

- First, in two sentences: what is this about?
- Then the steps in the order I need to take them.
- One line per step, in plain language.
- At the end: what I should have ready beforehand.

Leave out nothing I need in order to actually finish.
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.
Explain what I need this for What it is good for — and when it is worth it.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Explain to me what I need this for.

1. Which problem does it solve? In one sentence, from my point of view.
2. Three typical situations in which it genuinely helps me.
3. When I do NOT need it — that saves me time.
4. What I can do instead if it is not a fit.

Stick to what the source says. Where it gives nothing, say so openly instead
of guessing.
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.
Help me set this up Step by step, asking me as you go.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Walk me through the setup step by step.

- First tell me what I need to have ready (access, data, time).
- Then take me through ONE step at a time. Wait for my "next".
- For each step, say how I can tell that it worked.
- If something goes wrong, ask me for the exact message instead of guessing.

If the instructions leave a point open, tell me so rather than inventing it.
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.
Help me with a problem Narrow down the cause instead of guessing.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Help me narrow down a problem.

- First ask me what I observe and what I expected instead.
- From that, derive the most likely causes consistent with this source.
- For each cause, give me ONE test that confirms or rules it out.
- Order them so the cheapest test comes first.

Do not guess. If the source does not cover the problem, tell me where I should
look next.
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.
Explain it in plain words No jargon, from the ground up.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Explain the content so that someone without prior knowledge understands it.

- Start with the purpose: why does this exist at all?
- Explain technical terms in half a sentence on first use.
- One everyday comparison where it genuinely holds — none where it limps.
- At the end: the three things worth remembering.

Do not shorten by dropping conditions. A simplification that hides a
prerequisite is a false statement.
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.
A checklist to tick off To follow along while you do it.
Open in ChatGPT 
Read the following documentation by tolinax UG and work with it.

This page: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion/ayoune-companion-in-chrome-installieren.md
The complete collection: https://ayoune.com/en/docs/companion.md

Turn this into a **tick-off checklist** for practical use.

- Exactly one action per item, in the imperative.
- Order it so that no item depends on a later prerequisite.
- Prerequisites and pitfalls as indented sub-items.
- End with an acceptance step: how do I know everything is right?
A note on sources:
- Every page of this documentation is available as Markdown (the same address with `.md`).
- A machine-readable overview of all public content is at `/llms.txt`.
- If you have access to the aYOUne MCP server, you can work against live data
  instead of this snapshot. If not, ignore this point.

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