# Quickstart

The fastest path from sign-up to your first AI visibility data - with everything you need along the way.

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## TL;DR

- Sign up and finish the **Brand Onboarding Wizard** - it creates your first brand, competitors, prompts, and a monitor automatically.
- Your first monitor **runs automatically** as soon as onboarding finishes - no manual trigger needed.
- Read your first AI responses within minutes; a clean baseline lands in about 24 hours.
- Connect **Google Search Console** for sharper, demand-based prompts, then invite your team.

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## Step 1. Create your account

Sign up at [portal.gracker.ai](https://portal.gracker.ai/). No credit card is required to create your account.

**Tip:** Use your work email - it makes team invites and domain-based access easier later.

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## Step 2. Complete the Brand Onboarding Wizard

When you first log in, the **Brand Onboarding Wizard** walks you through everything needed to start tracking. You'll provide:

- **Your brand** - name and website.
- **What you do and who it's for** - a short description GrackerAI uses to ground prompt and competitor suggestions.
- **Your competitors** - the rivals you want to measure yourself against.
- **Your prompts** - the buyer questions you want to track (the wizard suggests a starter set from your details).

![Brand Onboarding Wizard](/docs/images/onboarding.png)

When you finish, GrackerAI automatically creates your **brand, competitors, prompts, and a starter monitor** - no manual setup required.

**Tip:** Fill in every field - the more context you give, the better GrackerAI's prompt and competitor suggestions get. Tracking more than one brand or product? Pick your [Workspace Mode](/docs/setup/workspace-modes) first, since it changes how mentions are scored.

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## Step 3. Your first run

GrackerAI **runs your new monitor automatically** the moment onboarding finishes, so you don't have to do anything - your first responses start arriving within minutes.

- On a paid plan or active trial, the run starts right at completion.
- On the Free plan, it starts as soon as you begin your trial or pick a plan.
- After the first run, monitors re-run automatically on your plan's schedule - no manual triggering needed.

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## Step 4. Read your first responses

Open [Responses](/docs/using-gracker/responses-and-citations/responses) to read exactly what each AI platform said. For every response you'll see:

- **Mentions** - whether your brand appeared, how prominently, and which competitors showed up.
- **Sentiment** - how favourably you were described.
- **Citations** - the source domains the answer linked to, and whether any were yours.

This is the raw evidence behind every score on your dashboard - when a number moves, this is where you find out why.

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## Step 5. Connect Google Search Console

Connecting GSC is the fastest way to get high-quality prompts. GrackerAI uses your real buyer search queries to suggest prompts that match actual demand, instead of guesses.

Go to **Integrations → Connectors**, find **Google Search Console**, and follow the connect flow.

See the full guide → [Google Search Console](/docs/integrations/google-search-console)

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## Step 6. Invite your team

Add teammates at **Manage Workspace → Team Management** so they can work in the same workspace:

| Role | What They Can Do |
|---|---|
| **Owner** | Full workspace control. billing, settings, and managing every member |
| **Admin** | Invite and manage members, and work across brands, prompts, monitors, and content |
| **Member** | Use the workspace. view analytics and work with brands and prompts |

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## What to Expect

| Timeframe | What You'll See |
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| **First few minutes** | AI responses from your first run |
| **24 hours** | A clean baseline across all selected surfaces |
| **2 weeks** | Trends you can act on |
| **4–8 weeks** | Measurable improvement from content changes |

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## Next Steps

- [Read your responses](/docs/using-gracker/responses-and-citations/responses): See exactly what AI said for each prompt
- [Understand your scores](/docs/using-gracker/understanding-your-scores/visibility-score): See what drives your visibility score

- [Working with Prompts](/docs/using-gracker/working-with-prompts/prompts): Create better prompts for tracking
- [Set up your strategy](/docs/using-gracker/working-with-monitors/best-practices): Brand, competitor, category, and problem-aware monitors