Quickstart
From zero to your first AI-visibility number in about ten minutes.
This walkthrough uses the Free plan; no card, no API keys required.
1. Create your account and organization
Sign up at the dashboard (or accept an invitation). During onboarding you create your organization — the billing and team container — and pick a plan. Free starts immediately.
2. Create your first project
Dashboard → New project: enter the website domain (e.g. acmecloud.io)
and a display name. The project is the unit everything else attaches to:
keywords, prompts, competitors, audits.
3. Add tracked keywords
Open SEO → Rank Tracking and add the keywords you care about — brand terms, product terms, comparison terms ("acmecloud vs hetzner"). Free plan tracks up to 10 keywords per project.
The daily rank-check job picks them up automatically; the Refresh button runs an immediate check. Rank data comes from the DataForSEO integration (see Data sources) — outside demo mode the integration must be configured; there is no silent fallback.
4. Add GEO prompts
Open AI Visibility and create the questions your customers actually ask AI engines:
- "best cloud hosting for startups"
- "hetzner vs digitalocean vs acmecloud"
- "how to migrate a database to managed hosting"
Pick a category, the engines to run (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, …)
and a cadence (daily/weekly). Free plan: 5 prompts per project, 10 GEO runs
per day — note each prompt × engine counts as one run, so start with 1–2
prompts × 4 engines (4–8 runs); "Run all" across 5 prompts × 4 engines
needs 20 runs and exceeds the Free daily quota.
5. Run your first GEO check
Click Run all (or run a single prompt). Each prompt × engine execution
costs 1 credit — Free includes a one-time welcome grant of 50 credits at
sign-up (paid plans grant credits with each billing period), enough for a
full first sweep. Same-day re-runs replace that day's result snapshot
(history is not duplicated), but each execution is billed per call — a
re-run charges its credit again. The daily quota and your balance are
checked before anything runs.
Within a few minutes you have your first numbers: mention rate, citation rate, share of voice and the per-engine breakdown.
6. Add competitors
SEO → Competitors → Add: name + domain (e.g. Hetzner, hetzner.com).
Share of voice and the tracked-competitor gap analyses (keyword gap,
intersection, backlink gap) are computed against these brands; competitor
discovery is the reverse direction — it surfaces domains you haven't added
yet.
7. Read your Growth Score
The dashboard's headline number combines AI visibility, SEO visibility, traffic opportunity and content opportunity into one 0–100 score — see Growth Score for the exact formula.
8. Ask the agent
Open AI Growth Agent and ask: "Why is my AI visibility low and what should I do first?" The agent answers from your own data (runs, citations, gaps, audit issues) with ranked recommendations. Agent chat costs 1 credit per message; a manual full diagnostic analysis costs 5 (the scheduled weekly analysis is free).
What to check weekly
- AI Visibility — mention/citation trend per engine.
- Content Gap — new keywords competitors win; generate a brief (10 credits by default) for the highest-value ones.
- Recommendations — the agent's ranked list; mark items done as you ship.
Self-hosting? Everything above also works with the deterministic mock
provider (DEMO_MODE=true, the default outside production) — useful for
evaluating the product with zero external API keys.