How to Get Started with Addlly AI

Welcome onboard. This guide walks you through onboarding your brand, from your first login to your first AI-powered outputs. You can follow along with the short video, then use this page for more detailed steps.

Before you begin

Have these on hand:

  • Your website URL
  • Links to active social channels (ok to skip any you don’t use)
  • Brand guidelines or a style guide (PDF or doc)
  • A list of your core products or services
  • Your initial goals for using Addlly (examples: increase AI visibility, ship more blogs, standardize tone)

Phase 1: Set-up

Step 1: Open the Brand Analysis Dashboard

From your Addlly AI dashboard, select User Onboarding. You’ll land on the Brand Analysis screen where setup begins.

Step 2: Enter your website and social links

Paste your primary website URL and any social profiles you want analyzed. If you don’t use a channel, leave it blank.

Tip: Start with the channels where you post most often. You can add more later.

Step 3: Upload brand guidelines

Add your brand guide, tone guide, or any document that shows voice, language rules, and visual cues. The more you share here, the more accurate your AI setup will be.

Good to include:

  • Voice and tone examples
  • Approved phrases and words to avoid
  • Brand dictionary and spelling preferences
  • Example posts and top-performing pages

Step 4: Add objectives

Use the “Additional information” box to share your initial goals. For example: “Launch weekly GEO blogs,” “Standardize tone across markets,” or “Improve AI citations for category pages.” Then click Analyze my brand.

Step 5: Let the AI Agents analyze your brand

Our agents gather and process your inputs. This takes a few minutes. You can see the process, which agents are running, and the next steps on the same dashboard.

What you’ll get:

  • A baseline of brand identity signals
  • Early insights on tone, audience, and content themes
  • Products and Services
  • Target Audience Segmentation
  • Recommendations for your next actions

Step 6: Validate your brand setup

CONGRATULATIONS! You have completed your first step with Addlly AI. Next, we shall move on to Validation. (link)

Review and confirm the pillars below so your outputs stay on-brand:

  • 1. Brand identity – Name, tagline, positioning, value props
  • 2. Target audience – Segments, markets, key pain points
  • 3. Tone guide – Voice traits, do’s and don’ts, sample lines
  • 4. Products / services – What you sell and how you describe it

These validation items map to your onboarding checklist.
Tip: If something looks off, edit it now. Small fixes here improve every output later.

Phase 2: Completing your dashboard

Step 7: Add products and services

Populate the Products and Services section so agents can reference accurate names, features, benefits, and CTAs in blogs and social posts.

Suggested fields:

  • Product/service name
  • Short description
  • Key features and benefits
  • Primary URL (product page)
  • Target audience or use case
  • Preferred CTA (if any)

Step 8: Train with your existing content

Help the system learn your style by connecting or uploading a sample set of blogs and social posts. This improves tone, structure, and topic coverage.

What to include:

  • 3 to 5 representative blog posts
  • 3 to 5 representative social posts with good engagement
  • Any long-form content that shows your voice (guides, FAQs)

Success checklist

  • Website and socials added
  • Brand guidelines uploaded
  • Brand identity, audience, tone, and products validated
  • Products and services populated
  • Training content uploaded (blogs and social)

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