Onboarding takes a few minutes. Aventide reads your business, you correct anything it got wrong, and your first Daily Brief is ready the next morning.

Before you start

If you're on the free trial, you may first see Choose your plan. Click Continue with Free to keep trying Aventide, or pick Starter or Pro.

Let Aventide read your business

Give Aventide one or both of these:

  • Your website: paste your site's address.
  • What your AI already knows: if you've used ChatGPT or Claude, click Copy to copy the question, ask it there, and paste the whole answer. It asks for everything the AI remembers about you and your business: how you like to work, your standing instructions, your goals, what you're working on and your clients, as well as the business facts.

Click Read my site, Read what I pasted or Read both. Using both gives the best read.

Starting something new without a website? Click I'm starting something new and describe what you're making in one line. You can also click Skip for now.

Fix what it found

Aventide lists the facts it found, and under About you what it read about you: how you like to work, your rules, notes about you, goals, priorities and client notes, each ticked where the read is sure. Untick anything you don't want kept. Correct or remove any fact that's wrong. If your website and your pasted answer disagree, pick the right one with Use this. Then click Looks right, which saves everything still on the list. You can change any of it later in the Business Hub.

Check your brand kit

Here's your brand kit shows the logos, colors, fonts, brand words and document style it found. Keep, change or remove each one, then click Use this brand kit. With no website, you choose your name, one color and a logo if you have one instead.

Next, Three places a photo can go: the cover, band and portrait photos for your proposals. If you gave a website, Aventide picks one from it for each place; change any, or tap a photo to move its focus point. Without one, the places start empty: click Add on a place, or drop photos on Your photos and Aventide puts them in the empty places for you. A photo too small for a place tells you the size it needs. Click Looks right to save what you placed, or Continue without photos or Skip photos for now to go on without any. Only what you keep or add is saved.

Welcome and your first week

Click Take a look around. Your first brief arrives tomorrow and gets sharper each day. You can change its delivery time in Routines. If you see Bring it over, you can move your clients, projects, notes and messages from HoneyBook. Click Open your workspace to finish.

Skip something or leave early

Your progress is saved on any device, and Back never undoes it. If you leave before finishing, click Finish setup on the banner at the top of the Business Hub.

Anything you skip with Skip for now or I'll do this later waits on these setup screens: click Back on the welcome screen to return to it. It never goes to the Memory tab or Sidekick approvals. Once setup is finished, it waits in your Brand Kit: click Foundations and look under From your website scan. A style found on your site waits in the Brand Kit's Style view. Add anything else you missed in the Business Hub.

After onboarding

The Field Guide in Sidekick walks you through the rest: see what Aventide knows, create something useful, explore Integrations and a workstation, and take Aventide with you on Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack.