Completing onboarding

Onboarding is not a form you fill in. TribeNest asks you a couple of things about what you do, builds your workspace and puts a starter site online, then hands you to Mira, who carries on building from there.

The whole thing takes a few minutes, and your address on the web is real before you have written a single word.

Choose your plan

The first screen after sign-up is Choose your plan.

1. Use the Monthly and yearly toggle at the top to see both prices. Yearly shows you how much it saves.
2. Compare what each plan includes. There is a full feature comparison under the cards if you want the detail.
3. Click Choose Plan on the one you want, and complete checkout.

If a free trial is available to you, the screen offers to start it instead, including a Continue with free trial, no credit card option where no card is required. You keep full access for the length of the trial and can upgrade any time before it ends.

Two questions about you

Next, TribeNest asks two things. That is the whole questionnaire. A progress bar at the top shows Step 1 of 2 and Step 2 of 2.

Step 1: What do you do?

A grid of options: Musician, Content creator, Coach, Educator, Fashion designer, Photographer, Author, Consultant, Agency, Small business, Lawyer, and Something else.

Pick the closest fit. It shapes the words and the layout your site starts with. Choosing Something else opens a short text field so you can say it in your own words instead.

Click Next.

Step 2: What do you want first?

This one lets you pick more than one, and the order matters. The options are:

• Sell my work for merch, music, art or digital downloads.
• Get hired by clients for enquiries, bookings and paid projects.
• Generate leads for enquiries and emails from new prospects.
• Grow my audience with an email list you actually own.
• Run a membership for recurring income from your community.
• Teach what I know through coaching, courses and sessions.
• Sell tickets to events for shows, workshops and live dates.
• Just get online with a clean home base for all your links.
• Something else, which opens a text field for your own words.

Pick as many as apply. Your first pick gets a Main badge and leads the way: it sets the shape of your setup checklist and of the site you start with, and everything else you picked gets folded in.

Click Create Profile, and TribeNest gets to work.

The setup screen

A full-screen setup view takes over, headed Setting things up and Making room for your workspace name. Your web address appears underneath it as soon as TribeNest has allocated one.

Three stages tick past in order:

1. Claiming your space and your address.
2. Forking a fresh site: every file, yours to change. This is a complete starter site copied for you, not a template you are locked into.
3. Handing you over to Mira, or Putting your first version online if Mira is not the one taking it from here.

Your site is published as part of this. By the time the screen clears, the address shown at the top is live and you can share it.

Mira takes over

When setup finishes, you land in Mira's chat, in a conversation called Getting you started. Mira is TribeNest's built-in copilot, and on your first day she is the one building.

Here is what actually happens in that conversation:

• She starts on her own. If you described your business before signing up, Mira has already read it and begins working from it. You do not have to open with anything.
• She asks you questions in the chat. They arrive one at a time, with a progress bar, a set of choices, and a text box on every single one so you can answer in your own words instead of picking a label. Questions that are not essential have a Skip button, and Back lets you change an earlier answer. Click Send when you are done.
• She builds as she goes, and each thing she does shows up as a line in the conversation so you can see what she touched.
• She shows you a draft before anything changes in public. When she has something to show, a card appears headed Your draft site, with a link you can open and click through. That draft is a private copy. Nothing at your own address changes until you say so.
• You publish when you are ready. The draft card has a Publish button and a plain warning that publishing replaces what is live at your address. Clicking it is the same as telling her to publish it.

Talk to her the way you would talk to a person: "make the homepage lead with my new album", "add a page where people can book a session", "the headline should say Live in Lagos this August".

Read more about working with her in Chatting with Mira.

Your checklist on Home

Click Home at the top of the sidebar at any time and you will find your setup checklist. It is built from the goals you picked, so it is a short list of things that actually move your business rather than a generic tour.

At the top of the card:

• A Setup Progress heading with how many steps you have finished.
• A percentage badge and a progress bar.

Below that, the step you are on gets a large card of its own with its title, a line describing it, and a Continue with Mira button. Clicking it opens your conversation with that step already teed up, so she can do it with you.

Underneath, Up next expands to show every step in the list. Each row has:

• A tick if it is done, or its own icon if it is not.
• A Next Step badge and a pulsing dot on the one you are up to.
• A button on the right that opens the page where you would do it by hand, if you would rather not go through Mira.
• Sometimes a small external-link icon that opens a help article for that step.

You do not have to work in order. Any unfinished row can be started from its own button.

What is on your list

The exact steps depend on what you said you wanted. Every list starts with getting your site live and ends with sharing your link. In between you might see things like creating your first paid tier, posting members-only content, adding your first product, setting up your first offer, creating a lead magnet, adding an enquiry form, creating your first event, creating a smart link, or connecting how you get paid.

If Mira built a plan from your own description, the rows are titled in your words rather than ours.

The sharing step

The last step is Share your link, and it is the one Mira cannot do for you. That row shows your site address in full, with:

• Copy link to put it on your clipboard.
• Done. I shared it to tick the step off once you have posted it somewhere.
• Continue with Mira if you would rather talk it through first.

When the checklist is done

Finish everything and the card becomes a celebration: Setup Complete! with a party icon, plus a compact row of three numbers:

• Contacts, how many people are on your list.
• Your site, showing Live or Not live.
• Trial days left, if you are on a trial.

Underneath, TribeNest suggests one thing to do next, with a button that takes you straight there. It is one suggestion at a time on purpose, so it reads as a nudge rather than another list.

Below the setup card, a What's new section shows recent activity on your workspace: sales, sign-ups, and anything that needs your attention. It only appears once there is something to show.

A quieter sidebar at first

Until your site is live, TribeNest keeps the sidebar short. You get Home, Mira, My Website, the sections that match the goals you picked, and Settings. Nothing is switched off, it is simply out of the way while you are getting the first thing done.

When you want the whole product, click Explore all features at the bottom of the sidebar. It sticks, so you only do it once. The sidebar also opens up on its own the moment your site goes live.

Where to go next

• Take the full tour in Navigating the dashboard.
• Point your own domain at your site in Managing domains.
• Set up paid tiers in Memberships.
• List your first product in Store.
• Send your first campaign in Emails.
• Bring people in from Team.