# Quick Start

Get up and running with aclipp in minutes


This guide walks you through the essentials, from creating your first project to sharing insights with your team. You can use aclipp for PR analytics, AI Visibility / GEO, or both in the same reporting workflow.

## Create a project

A project is your central workspace. Give it a name, upload a logo and cover image, and set your brand color. These shape the look of your reports, dashboards, and stakeholder-facing AI Visibility views.

## Choose your first workflow

Most teams start with one of two workflows:

- **PR analytics:** collect clippings, structure them with metrics and tags, then build dashboards and reports.
- **AI Visibility / GEO:** define prompts, choose AI providers, track competitors, and analyze how AI answers mention and cite your brand.

You can run both workflows in the same project so earned media and AI Visibility can be reported together.

## Add clippings

Clippings are the media coverage items you track. Paste URLs, upload files, use the browser extension, or import a CSV or Excel file.

<PageLink
  title="Creating Clippings"
  description="All the ways to add media coverage to your project"
  href="/help/clippings/creating-clippings"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Browser Extension"
  description="Capture coverage while browsing the web"
  href="/help/clippings/browser-extension"
/>

## Set up AI Visibility / GEO

AI Visibility tracks how AI assistants talk about your brand. Start with a small prompt set around your category, product, competitors, or market, then choose the providers and cadence you want to monitor.

<PageLink
  title="AI Visibility / GEO"
  description="Understand what AI Visibility measures and when to use it"
  href="/help/ai-visibility"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Prompt Setup"
  description="Define prompts, markets, competitors, providers, and cadence"
  href="/help/ai-visibility/prompt-setup"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Providers"
  description="Choose which AI assistants to monitor and compare"
  href="/help/ai-visibility/providers"
/>

## Define custom metrics

Metrics are data fields attached to every clipping, such as sentiment, tonality, or key messages. They power your dashboards and reports.

<PageLink
  title="Custom Metrics"
  description="Set up data fields for your clippings"
  href="/help/clippings/custom-metrics"
/>

## Organize with tags

Tags are simple labels to categorize clippings by campaign, market, topic, or any other dimension.

<PageLink
  title="Tags"
  description="Group and filter clippings with labels"
  href="/help/clippings/tags"
/>

## Build a report

Turn your clippings into professional, shareable documents. Filter the data you want, design a layout, then export or share.

<PageLink
  title="Creating Reports"
  description="Filters, layouts, and design options"
  href="/help/reports/creating-reports"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Sharing & Exporting"
  description="PDF, PowerPoint, CSV, or interactive online link"
  href="/help/reports/sharing"
/>

## Set up a dashboard

Get a real-time overview of your media coverage with customizable charts and widgets. For AI Visibility, use the dedicated visibility views to compare providers, mentions, citations, sentiment, share of voice, and Gap Score.

<PageLink
  title="Dashboard Setup"
  description="Charts, metrics, and filters"
  href="/help/dashboards/setup"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Sharing Dashboards"
  description="Share via public link with stakeholders"
  href="/help/dashboards/sharing"
/>

## Connect integrations

Import clippings automatically from external sources. Set up once and new coverage flows in on its own.

<PageLink
  title="aclipp Monitoring"
  description="Use built-in monitoring to find relevant coverage automatically"
  href="/help/monitoring"
/>
<PageLink
  title="Integrations"
  description="Connect external providers, feeds, and alert services"
  href="/help/integrations"
/>

## Report PR and GEO together

Once coverage and AI Visibility data are flowing, combine the story for stakeholders: what coverage you earned, how it performed, and whether it is shaping the answers people receive from AI assistants.

<PageLink
  title="AI Visibility Metrics"
  description="Mentions, citations, sentiment, share of voice, trends, and Gap Score"
  href="/help/ai-visibility/metrics"
/>
<PageLink
  title="AI Visibility Credits"
  description="Understand how prompt runs use credits"
  href="/help/ai-visibility/credits"
/>