How to onboard & manage your brand with aiCMO

Use this guide when you want to move from "we are still thinking about it" to "our brand is now inside aiCMO and ready for execution."

For most brands, onboarding takes only a few minutes. The main job is simple:

1. submit your website
2. activate your account from the magic link
3. let aiCMO start building a usable operating layer around your brand

You do not need to prepare a long brief, SEO spreadsheet, or agency handover document before starting.

What you need

• A live website domain
• A working email address
• Basic brand positioning already visible on the site
• Enough website content for aiCMO to understand what you sell, who you serve, and what pages already exist

What onboarding actually does

When you use the free onboarding form, aiCMO is not just collecting a lead.

It is starting the first part of your brand setup:

• creating or locating your account
• sending you a magic link for secure sign-in
• saving your website as a pending brand entry
• preparing the domain to move into your claim and management flow

That matters because good SEO and GEO work starts with a clean brand record. If your website, ownership state, and execution surface are fragmented, every later workflow becomes slower.

How onboarding works

1. Open the Start Free Onboard flow on aicmo.uk.
2. Enter your work email and your website domain.
3. aiCMO creates your account if you are new, or matches you to an existing account if you already started before.
4. A magic link is sent to your inbox so you can sign in without a password.
5. Your domain is added to the onboarding queue as a pending claim, ready for review and setup.
6. Once you enter the product, you can continue into brand management and execution.

How to fill in the onboarding form correctly

The form is short, but a few details matter:

• Use the email you want to use for future account access.
• Enter the real business domain, not a social profile URL.
• Use the main website you want aiCMO to manage first.

Good examples:

• moonlakespa.com
• imaintain.uk
• orielipo.com

Avoid:

• a landing page builder preview URL
• a Google Doc link
• a subdomain that is not your actual commercial site
• a social media profile instead of your owned website

What happens after you click submit

After submission, there are usually three immediate next steps:

1. Check your email

The magic link is what connects your submitted domain to your account. If you do not click it, aiCMO cannot move you forward into a real management flow.

2. Confirm the brand is the right one

Once inside, make sure the domain and brand context are correct. You want aiCMO working on the right company, not on a test domain or outdated website.

3. Move into managed execution

Once your brand is in place, aiCMO can start supporting:

• SEO and GEO autopilot setup
• AI visibility tracking
• content planning and publishing workflows
• multi-channel operating support

What to review inside your brand setup

After you are in, review these first:

• your main domain
• your brand name and positioning
• your most important pages or service areas
• the channels that matter now: SEO, GEO, blog, LinkedIn, or broader content operations

You do not need perfection on day one. You need enough signal for aiCMO to understand your business and start with the highest-value work.

What to do after onboarding

• Review the domain profile
• Check that your brand description is accurate
• Confirm publishing and workflow settings
• Start tracking SEO, GEO, and AI visibility
• Decide which product should go live first

Which product should you start with first?

For most brands, the right first step is:

Start with SEO & GEO Autopilot if:

• your traffic is flat
• your team is stuck waiting on content execution
• your agency process feels slow or opaque
• you want traffic growth and publishing momentum quickly

Start with AI Visibility Tracker if:

• you already rank in search but do not know whether AI answer engines mention you
• you want to compare prompt-level visibility against competitors
• you need proof of where your brand is and is not showing up in AI-generated answers

Add multi-channel workflows after the core is stable

Once your main brand setup is correct, aiCMO becomes far more useful because it can coordinate execution from one place instead of forcing you to manage scattered tools.

Common mistakes to avoid

• submitting the wrong website
• using a personal email that the team cannot access later
• expecting aiCMO to guess your brand strategy from a thin or unfinished site
• trying to onboard multiple brands before the first one is set up cleanly

What good onboarding should feel like

If onboarding is working properly, you should feel like:

• your brand now has a home inside aiCMO
• account access is under control
• your website is ready to move into structured execution
• you are no longer starting from a blank page

That is the real goal. Onboarding is not the finish line. It is the moment your brand becomes operable.