> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.get-ryze.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Your first 7 days

> What happens in the first week with Ryze — setup, the first audit, the first published work, and what results to expect and not expect yet.

This page sets expectations for week one: what you do, what Ryze does, and what has *not* happened yet.

## Days 1–2: connect and configure

Your work, roughly an hour.

* [Create a workspace](/workspaces/create-workspace) for the brand or client
* Connect your [store or CMS](/connect-shopify) and [Google Search Console](/connect-gsc) — these two matter most
* Connect ad accounts if you are using Paid Ads
* Add Ryze to [Claude](/claude/connect) or [ChatGPT](/chatgpt/connect)
* Review [permissions and approvals](/claude/permissions) before the agent acts unattended
* Set your [agent context](/agent/context) — what you sell, who you sell to, tone. Topic quality depends on this.

<Note>
  Search Console reports with a 2–3 day delay. If you connected a property today, the most recent days will be missing. This is Google's behaviour, not a Ryze issue.
</Note>

## Days 2–3: the first audit

Ryze pulls Search Console, DataForSEO, and your store to establish ground truth — the queries and pages you already appear for, your rankings and competitors, and your best products by revenue.

Ask the assistant what it found:

> Audit my store and show me the biggest on-page SEO issues.

> What queries am I getting impressions for but ranking below position 10?

This is the highest-value moment of week one. The audit usually surfaces issues worth fixing regardless of what the engine does next.

## Days 3–7: first output

Keywords become a topic plan, split into [two pools](/how-ryze-works#two-content-pools), and the engine begins producing. Work is **spread across the month**, not delivered in a batch — so week one is a fraction of the monthly volume.

Watch it in **Agent Activity** on your home page, or the full log under **Agent Logs**. Every action is timestamped: articles drafted, articles published, fixes shipped.

## What will not have happened yet

Being explicit, because this is where expectations usually break:

* **No ranking movement.** New pages take weeks to months to be crawled, indexed, and ranked. Week one produces published work, not results.
* **No meaningful traffic change.** Anything you see in week one is noise.
* **No AI citation change.** Retrieval-driven citations respond over months, not days. See [AI visibility](/concepts/ai-visibility).
* **Only a fraction of monthly content.** The cycle is monthly and deliberately paced.

## What to actually check at day 7

| check                                  | where                              | good sign                                         |
| -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| All key platforms connected            | Workspace Settings → Integrations  | **Connected** badges, no reconnect prompts        |
| Audit completed                        | Agent Activity                     | Audit entries with timestamps                     |
| Topics reflect your business           | Topic plan                         | Real keywords with volume and difficulty attached |
| Articles publishing to the right place | Your store or CMS                  | Live pages, correct internal links                |
| Approvals behaving as intended         | [Permissions](/claude/permissions) | Nothing shipped that you wanted to review         |

If topics look off-target, fix [agent context](/agent/context) first — it is the input everything downstream is anchored to.

## Related

* [Quickstart](/quickstart)
* [How Ryze works](/how-ryze-works)
* [Credits & usage](/agent/credits)