Getting started with EqualAI
Set up a project, choose what to track, and understand which settings belong to your project, workspace, or account.
View as MarkdownEqualAI tracks how AI answers mention a brand and cite websites. Start with a project for the brand or website you want to monitor, then add the prompts and competitors that make the results useful to your team.
Understand the three scopes
| Scope | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Project | Brand identity, target country and language, tracked prompts, competitors, tags, annotations, and automatic prompt runs. |
| Workspace | Subscription, shared project and prompt capacity, AI credits, and workspace owner/admin access. |
| Your account | Your name, password, display currency, and app timezone preferences. |
Selecting a different project changes the context for project pages. It does not create a separate subscription. A workspace admin can access all its projects; an invited member or viewer receives access to the selected project, not every project in the workspace.
Before you begin
Have the following ready:
- The website domain and recognizable brand name.
- A main country and language for tracking.
- Questions your audience might ask an AI assistant, or topics from which to develop them.
- At least one relevant competitor.
- A decision about which models and run frequency fit your available credits.
You need available project capacity to create another project. Workspace billing changes require a workspace owner or admin. If you joined through an invitation and cannot see a project, check that you accepted the invitation with the intended account.
Set up your first project
- Enter your website and targeting preferences.
- Review the suggested project details and any alternative brand names.
- Review topics or choose to supply your own prompts.
- Review competitors and their identifiers.
- Review or import prompts.
- Choose initial tracking models and schedule.
- Review the website report, then the available plan choices.
See Onboarding for the exact controls, import limits, and recovery steps. Review suggested content rather than treating it as a verified description of your business.
Build a useful tracking set
Prefer prompts that represent distinct customer questions. Separate brand-specific questions from broader category questions so you can interpret the results in context. Use tags to group prompts by intent, audience, or product area.
Synthetic example: a fictional outdoor retailer could track “What should a beginner look for in a hiking backpack?” and tag it Buying guide. This is an example of prompt organization, not customer data or a promised result.
Add competitors that genuinely overlap with your audience. Their names, domains, and aliases help identify them in AI answers; they are not additional projects.
Run and maintain tracking
Open the schedule/run dialog to review model access and the displayed credit estimate before running prompts. A manual run is queued work: submitting it is not the same as receiving completed answers. Schedules explains automatic runs, selected-prompt runs, fan-out, and Instant Run.
Use annotations to record changes such as a content update. An annotation adds context; it does not prove that an event caused a later movement in results.
When something is unavailable
- No project: select an accessible project or ask a workspace admin to invite you.
- Read-only access: a viewer cannot make tracking changes. Ask an admin to review your role.
- Capacity or credit warning: a workspace admin can review billing and usage. Prompt capacity and execution credits are different limits.
- No results yet: review the run status and wait for queued work to complete before drawing conclusions.
- Setup or access error: use support and include the visible error without passwords or tokens.
Next steps
EqualAI documentation
Set up your project, measure how AI answers represent your brand, and turn reports into a focused investigation.
Create and configure a project
Work through website setup, topics, competitors, prompts, scheduling, and plan activation without confusing project and workspace settings.