> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mentionscout.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Add your first website and get your first AI visibility results.

The first time you sign in, MentionScout walks you through a short guided setup. You add one website, MentionScout analyzes it in the background, and then you confirm the competitors and prompts it suggests. The whole flow takes a few minutes.

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## What you set up

Onboarding runs in five steps, shown as a progress bar at the top of each screen. You set up four things:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Your first website" icon="globe">
    The brand and domain MentionScout watches for in AI answers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Brand details" icon="building">
    Names, description, and an ideal-customer persona that sharpen later suggestions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Competitors" icon="users">
    The rivals you want to compare against in AI recommendations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prompts" icon="message-square">
    The questions your buyers ask AI models, which MentionScout runs on a schedule.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Add your first website

<Steps>
  <Step title="Name your workspace">
    The **Workspace name** field is pre-filled for you. Keep it or change it. A workspace holds your websites, prompts, and results.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add the website">
    Under **Your first website**, fill in **Name** (for example `Acme`) and **Domain** (for example `acme.com`). This is the brand and domain MentionScout watches for in AI answers.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Continue">
    Click **Continue**. MentionScout creates the website and starts analyzing it in the background.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  You only add one website here. You can add more later from **Setup**.
</Note>

## Let MentionScout analyze the site

After you click **Continue**, an **Analyzing your website** dialog appears while MentionScout reads your homepage and drafts a brand profile. This usually finishes in 30 to 60 seconds, and the page advances on its own when each stage completes.

<Tip>
  If a stage runs long, the dialog shows the elapsed time and a **Restart this step** button. If analysis fails outright, you can **Retry**, fill the details in by hand, or **Skip** the step and continue.
</Tip>

## Confirm your brand details

When the analysis finishes, the **Brand** form opens, pre-filled with what MentionScout found. Review and adjust:

* **Brand name** and **Brand aliases**, the alternative names or spellings that should also count as a mention.
* **Short description**, **Industry**, **Tone of voice**, and a longer **Description** used to generate competitor and prompt suggestions.
* **Key features**, at least three specific things your product or service does.
* A **Persona** describing your ideal customer (name, description, age range, and education level), which sharpens the prompt suggestions.

When the details look right, click **Save & find competitors**. MentionScout then suggests competitors in the background.

<Note>
  You can revisit every one of these fields later from the [Brand Hub](/setup/brand-hub).
</Note>

## Review competitors

The **Competitors** step lists the rivals MentionScout suggested. Each row has a competitor name and an optional domain.

* Edit, remove, or add rows. Click **Add competitor** for each new one.
* For best results, list at least five competitors.

Click **Save & generate prompts** to continue. MentionScout drafts prompts based on your brand and competitors.

## Confirm your prompts

The **Prompts to monitor** step lists the questions your customers ask AI models. List at least three. For each prompt you can set two tags:

* **Type**: `Organic`, `Competitor comparison`, or `Brand specific`.
* **Intent**: `Informational`, `Commercial`, `Branded`, `Comparison`, `Transactional`, or `Local`.

Edit the wording, click **Add prompt** to write your own, and remove any you do not want. When you are happy, click **Finish setup**.

## What happens next

Finishing setup takes you to the **Dashboard**. Your prompts are scheduled to run daily, and as those runs complete, results fill in across the **AI Visibility** section of the sidebar:

* **Runs** records each time a prompt is sent to the AI models.
* **Mentions** shows where your brand was named in those answers.
* **Citations** shows which pages the models linked to.

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  <Card title="Core concepts" icon="book-open" href="/concepts">
    The mental model behind prompts, runs, mentions, and citations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Brand Hub" icon="building" href="/setup/brand-hub">
    Refine the brand profile that powers your suggestions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Prompts" icon="message-square" href="/ai-visibility/prompts">
    Manage the questions MentionScout runs against the AI models.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Runs" icon="play" href="/ai-visibility/runs">
    See each prompt run and the answers it returned.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>