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

# Quickstart

> Set up your Hikoo account and see your first AI-visibility snapshot.

## Create your account

<Steps>
  ### Sign up

  Go to the [Hikoo app](https://app.tryhikoo.com) and create an account with your email and password, or sign in with Google. New accounts go straight into onboarding.

  ### Add your website

  Enter your website URL and name, and choose the market you want to track (worldwide or a specific country). Hikoo analyzes and crawls the site to seed its metadata, topics, and starter prompts.

  ### Confirm your profile

  Review the description, industry, and brand identity Hikoo detected, and adjust the topics it will track. Accurate topics make every later view easier to slice.

  ### Add competitors

  Add the competitors you want to benchmark against. You can skip this and add them later from the [Competitors](/guides/competitors) page.

  ### Select prompts

  Hikoo generates a set of prompts (the questions it will ask AI assistants). Select the ones that match how your audience searches, regenerate for more ideas, and confirm.

  ### See your snapshot

  Hikoo runs a first pass and shows a live snapshot of your AI visibility, so you get value before you pay.

  ### Choose a plan

  Start a 7-day free trial with no credit card, pick the Free plan, or choose a paid plan and check out. Plans differ by websites, prompts, AI-response runs, audits, indexed pages, and which features they include.
</Steps>

## What happens next

Once your website is set up, Hikoo works in the background:

* **Indexation.** Your site is crawled to discover and categorize its pages. See [Pages](/guides/pages).
* **Citation collection.** Hikoo queries the AI assistants for your prompts every day and records when they cite you. See [Citations](/guides/citations).
* **Health checks.** Your site is evaluated for AI readiness, including `robots.txt` crawler access, `llms.txt`, and sitemap presence. See [Website health](/guides/health).

Data fills in on your dashboard as results arrive.

## Next steps

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  <Card title="Explore the dashboard" icon="chart-line" href="/guides/dashboard">
    See your visibility metrics at a glance.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand the concepts" icon="compass" href="/concepts/how-hikoo-works">
    Learn how prompts, citations, and share of voice fit together.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tune your prompts" icon="message-square" href="/guides/prompts">
    Add, import, or AI-generate the questions Hikoo tracks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect the MCP server" icon="plug" href="/guides/mcp/overview">
    Ask Claude about your Hikoo data in plain language.
  </Card>
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