Kanso Setup Guide: Your First Session, Step by Step

Key points

• You start with a website address and an email code. There is no password and no credit card.
• The brand step takes about two minutes: add where your brand lives, confirm what Kanso read, and check four lines.
• Connections are optional and separate. Your own Claude is the one that adds drafts, and Search Console adds real search data.
• Start with one Today card, review the draft it produces, and approve it. Nothing goes public without your yes.
• The free plan includes the website analysis and the strategy documents. The pricing page shows what each plan includes.

Getting started takes a website address and an email code

There is no password to invent and no credit card to enter. After the code you land in a guided setup, and the brand step takes about two minutes.

Start free with your website address and keep this page open beside it. The sections below follow the order of the screens. For the product in one page, read what Kanso is, and for the same journey in more depth, how Kanso works.

What to add on “Where does your brand live?”

Add your website first, then every profile you want Kanso to write for. One smart box takes a website, a profile or handle, a line of your own words, or several at once, and six tiles do the same by hand: website, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Reddit.

A brand can live in several places at once, and none is treated as the main one. If your profile bio links to your website, Kanso offers it with one tap and never adds it silently.

You can add a company site and a personal account together. Kanso then writes each channel in its own niche and voice.

If you describe the business in your own words instead, write a real sentence about what you do and for whom. A string of keywords gives Kanso little to work with.

How to confirm or fix what Kanso read

Confirm only what is yours, and fix the rest in the four lines that follow. Each profile appears as a card that says “Reading” and then asks “Is this you?”, with the bio and recent posts as Kanso read them, and Kanso uses it only after you confirm.

If a page refuses to be read, which happens with some LinkedIn and Reddit pages, a paste box lets you supply the text yourself. A live screen shows the profile, the latest posts and a brand kit of colours, logo and style filling in, and you can carry on while it finishes.

1. What you do. Edit the line if it is off.
2. Who it is for. Name your customer plainly.
3. What you sell. Products or services, in your own words.
4. How you sound. Your voice, since every draft starts from it.

One button saves the four lines. Positioning, things never to claim, competitors and goals can be refined later in your business documents, and every setup screen has a Skip and a Back.

Which connection turns on which specialist

Each connection adds data or publishing to specific specialists, and none is needed to see what Kanso learned about your business. The table shows what you do and what you get.

The skills page lists every specialist and what it needs, and the Agent Hub explains each one. Connect in the order of what you want first.

How to connect your own Claude in three steps

You connect your own Claude by adding the Kanso connector from Claude's settings, and it takes three steps. You need your own Claude account that supports connectors.

1. In Claude, open Settings and go to Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector.
3. Paste the connector address from Kanso's Connect Claude card, sign in to Kanso when Claude asks, and press Approve.

The Connect Claude card has a Copy button for the address, and its light starts grey. It turns green after Claude makes its first real call to Kanso, which you trigger by opening a new chat, switching Kanso on for it and pasting the “Say hello” sentence from the Guide.

How to connect Search Console and Analytics, read-only

You connect Search Console and Analytics from their cards, with read-only access to the one property you choose. The cards are on the Results traffic screen and on the SEO Agent's Fixes page, and each explains what it reads before you click Connect.

• Search Console gives clicks, impressions, click-through rate and position by page, query and device.
• Analytics gives sessions, users and engagement for the property you pick.
• Google asks for permission at the moment you connect, and the same card disconnects it.

Search Console is not required. It makes the SEO Agent and the Writer Agent more specific, and the SEO Agent can still audit your public pages without it.

Your first Today card: what to pick

Pick the top Today card unless it needs an account you have not connected, because the list is ranked best first and every card shows its reason. A card names the action, such as write an article, improve a page, fix a website issue, draft a reply or turn an article into posts. It also says roughly how many minutes it takes and when it is due.

• If Claude is connected: press “Do this with Claude” on an article or post card, which shows you the full draft-to-approval path.
• If Claude is not connected: pick a card you can do inside Kanso, or a reconnect card.
• If a card does not fit: dismiss it and give a reason.

How to review and approve your first draft

Review your first draft on the Content page, where you can read it, edit it, compare versions and approve it. The workspace refreshes when Claude saves something and shows the last thing Claude did.

1. Read it and change what is off.
2. Edit it. Each edit is saved as a new version, and you can compare versions word by word.
3. Approve it. Only the workspace owner can approve.
4. Preview and confirm. Publishing shows the exact text and the account first, then asks for a separate confirmation. Or copy the text and post it yourself.

A Reddit reply can also be posted from the Reddit Agent, which publishes the reply exactly as it appears at that moment, so read it first. The X Agent and LinkedIn Agent work the same way on the Content page, and you approve each post and stay in control of what goes out. The approval workflow page documents each step and who can take it.

Your Kanso setup checklist for the first session

Your first session is complete when you can tick these eight items, and the last two are the ones that show you how Kanso keeps you in control.

1. Typed your website address and signed in with the one-time code.
2. Added the places your brand lives and confirmed each profile.
3. Saved the four lines about what you do, who it is for, what you sell and how you sound.
4. Opened Home and read the Chief of Growth's briefing.
5. Connected your own Claude and watched the light turn green. This one is optional.
6. Connected Search Console, read-only. This one is optional too.
7. Done one Today card, or dismissed it with a reason.
8. Read, edited and approved one draft, and published nothing you had not previewed.

What the free plan includes

The free plan includes the website analysis and the strategy documents, with no credit card. That is enough to see what Kanso makes of your brand.

The pricing page shows what each plan includes, so check it before you plan around a particular specialist. Competitive Intelligence is included on the Lite and Pro plans.

Where to get help: Guide, docs and prompts

Help sits in four places: the Guide inside the workspace, the documentation, the guides and the prompt library. The Guide holds ready-made sentences to paste into Claude, such as “Say hello”, “What to do today” and “Check what Kanso knows”, each with a plain description of what comes back.

• The documentation explains how Kanso works.
• The guides are short walkthroughs for the jobs you will do most.
• The prompt library has copy-and-edit prompts for search, content, social and communities.
• The free tools are small tools that run in your browser.

You can also type or speak to the Chief of Growth in the workspace. Voice use depends on your plan.

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