How to set up Orchly in 10 minutes
Create your workspace, connect Search Console, pick prompts and competitors, and start your free trial. The full Orchly setup in six steps.
Setting up Orchly takes about ten minutes. A six-step wizard creates your workspace, picks the AI prompts to track, adds your competitors and starts your 7-day free trial. Orchly reads your website as you go, so most answers are suggested for you.
As you answer each step, a panel on the right shows your workspace being put together, so you can see what each answer changes.
New here? What is Orchly explains how the pieces fit before you start.
Your website, and ideally the Google account that has access to your Search Console property. Everything else is suggested for you.
Step 1: Brand
The first screen, Welcome to Orchly AI 👋, asks who you are. Choose I am a Brand or I am an Agency. Agencies also enter an Agency name and agency website, then the Client brand name.
Then add your website. You have two ways:
- Connect Google Search Console (marked Recommended). Orchly finds your site from the property you pick, and your organic data starts syncing straight away.
- Enter your website manually instead, if you don’t use Search Console or want to connect it later.
Connecting now is worth it. The organic dashboard fills in with your clicks and impressions, and Orchly’s content suggestions get your real search data. The full walkthrough is in connect Google Search Console.
Step 2: Market & Language
Where do you compete? Pick your Primary Market and Primary Language. Orchly uses both to write topics and prompts for your market, so a UK brand gets questions a UK buyer would ask.
Step 3: How You Found Us
A quick question about how you heard of Orchly. Pick the closest option. It doesn’t change your setup.
Step 4: Topics & Prompts
This is the step that matters most. Orchly reads your site and researches prompts for your category: the questions buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews before they choose a product like yours.
- Review the suggested prompts, grouped by topic.
- Keep the ones that match what you sell. You need at least one to continue.
- Edit or add your own if something’s missing.
“Best CRM for a 20-person sales team” tells you more than “what is a CRM”. Start with the questions buyers ask right before they choose. You can research more prompts with Orchly AI later.
Your plan has a limit on tracked prompts, counted across all your workspaces. See plan and usage.
Step 5: Competitors
Choose Your Competitors. Orchly suggests brands it found while reading your site. Select the ones you really compete with, or add one with Competitor name and Competitor URL, then Add.
These are the brands your AI share of voice is measured against. You can change the list any time in Brand Brain competitors.
Step 6: Start your free trial
Start Your Free Trial shows a preview of your AI visibility report, locked until you pick a plan. Choose Essential, Pro or Business, switch between monthly and yearly (yearly shows Save 25%), and click Start Free Trial.
The trial lasts 7 days and nothing is charged until it ends. You can cancel any time before then.
What Orchly does in the background
While you finish the wizard, Orchly keeps working:
- It starts running your tracked prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overview and Perplexity. First numbers arrive over the next hours.
- It builds Brand Brain from your website: company facts, products, audience, tone of voice and brand colours.
- It sets up your website sitemap so agents can find and link to your pages.
You land on Home. Give AI Visibility a day to collect its first answers, then check the AI visibility overview.
What to do after you set up Orchly
- Review Brand Brain so agents write from correct facts.
- Connect Google Analytics 4 for sessions and conversions.
- Connect your CMS so agents can publish drafts.
- Run your first Site Health audit.
- Invite your team.