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

# Quickstart

> Sign-up to first useful result in about 15 minutes.

From sign-up to a real measurement of how AI platforms talk about your brand. About 15 minutes end-to-end: a few minutes of setup, then 5 to 15 while the platforms answer.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Sign up">
    Create an account at [openlens.com/sign-up](https://openlens.com/sign-up). Free, Starter, and Agency plans are available — see [Plans](/pricing/plans). For enterprise needs, email [contact@aibread.com](mailto:contact@aibread.com).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create your first project">
    Enter the client's website URL. OpenLens reads the page and proposes:

    * A starting set of **competitors**. Add, remove, or paste a URL to disambiguate a common name.
    * A starting set of **topics**. Containers for the prompts that follow.
    * A set of **prompts** generated for each topic.

    Confirm or edit. See [Onboarding](/manual/onboarding) for the full mechanics.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Skim the prompts (optional, 60 seconds)">
    You land on the Prompts tab with the auto-generated prompts grouped by topic. Read a few. They should sound like questions a real user would type into ChatGPT or Perplexity. Edit anything that doesn't fit. Skip if the auto-generation already looks right.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click Run Now">
    The button at the top of the dashboard kicks off the first measurement. A typical first project (around 30 prompts across 3 platforms) takes 5 to 15 minutes. You can leave the page. The dashboard updates live as platform responses come back, so visibility, [share of voice](/glossary), and the other numbers will shift while the run is in flight. Final numbers settle when the run completes.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Read the result">
    When the run completes, the Dashboard fills in:

    * **Visibility**: percentage of platform responses that mentioned your brand. The headline number.
    * **Per-platform breakdown**: which AI platforms know you and which don't.
    * **Per-topic performance**: where you win, where competitors win.
    * **AI sources**: the cited domains models pulled from.

    Click into any topic for the per-topic deep-dive with the AI-generated recommendation paragraph.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you have at this point

A measurement of how every supported AI platform answers questions in your client's space, who they mention, who they cite, and where you sit relative to competitors right now. Everything else in OpenLens is a way to slice, schedule, or share this data.

## Where to go next

* [Dashboard](/manual/dashboard) for the home view reference.
* [Topic performance](/manual/topic-performance) for the per-topic deep-dive with the AI recommendation.
* [Prompt attributes](/manual/prompt-attributes) for slicing your data along the dimensions that matter to your business.
* [Workstreams](/manual/workstreams) for goal-tracked clusters of topics and attributes. The surface clients see in monthly reviews.
* [MCP server](/mcp/overview) to drive everything from Claude or another LLM client.
* [Reports](/manual/reports) when you're ready to ship a PDF to a client.
* [Glossary](/glossary) for what each OpenLens term means.