Get started with Obelisk

1. Open the sign-in page. It says Sign in to Obelisk.
2. Choose Continue with Google, or type your email and choose Continue with email.
3. If you used email, we send you a sign-in link and a 6-digit code. Type the code in the window where you started, or press the button in the email. The code works for 5 minutes.

You can also choose Sign in with a passkey, or Other ways to sign in to use a password.

The first time you sign in, one short screen asks which site to check.

1. Check the site address, or press Change to type a different one.
2. Fill in Workspace name. You can change this later.
3. If you like, pick an answer under What matters most right now? We'll put this first in your report. If you pick Beat a competitor, you can add up to 3 competitor addresses.
4. Press Start audit. Your report opens and fills in as we check your pages.

Home is the first item in the sidebar and where you land after signing in. It shows your sites side by side:

• Needs you: the most urgent thing on each site, such as a problem that came back or a drop in Site health.
• Since you last looked: what was fixed, what's new and what came back.
• Your sites: each site's Site health score and when it was last audited.
• Recent activity: audits that finished, fixes that were confirmed and sites people added.

The sidebar holds your workspace switcher at the top, then Home and, when it's switched on for your workspace, Chat. Under Site audit you'll find Overview, Issues, What changed, Pages, Competitors, Audit settings and Past audits for the site on screen. Depending on your plan, you may also see Content and Customers groups. Press ⌘\ (Ctrl \ on Windows) to fold the sidebar to icons.

The top bar shows where you are. Its first part is the site switcher: open it to find another site or choose Add a site. On the right are Ask, the Inbox bell and your account menu, which holds Account, Settings, Sites, Trash, Connections, Theme and Sign out.

Press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows), or click Search in the top bar. Type what you want, such as a page address like /pricing or a problem like missing title. Results are grouped into sites, issues, pages and settings. Use the arrow keys to move, Enter to open and Esc to close.

Ask in the top bar opens a panel where you can ask questions in plain words about the screen you're on. See Chat and Ask.

Once your first audit finishes, Get started appears on Home and at the foot of the sidebar, with how many steps you've done. Steps tick themselves as you do them:

• Audit your first site
• Connect Google Search Console
• Add a competitor
• Invite a teammate (only for people who can invite)
• Check again every week
• Sign in faster with a passkey

Each open step has one button to do it. Press Not right now to hide the checklist for good.