# Your first week on GetIntel

> What to look at on day 1, day 3 and day 7, when your scores become reliable, and the few things worth doing before then.

Source: https://getintel.ai/docs/academy/start-here/first-week/

Your first scores arrive within about 10 minutes of starting, but they settle over the first week. GetIntel scores topics over a rolling 7-day window, so day 1 is a starting point, not a verdict.

## Day 1: get oriented

1. **Wait for the first scan.** About 10 minutes. It finds your competitors, asks each engine your buyer questions, scores your topics, reads the pages AI cites and builds your task list.
2. **Check your setup.** Open **Settings** and confirm your website and product description are right, and check your market in **Settings → Markets**. The market decides which country the questions are asked from and in which language. See [Common setup mistakes](/docs/academy/start-here/common-setup-mistakes/).
3. **Check your competitors.** Open **Competitors**. Remove any brand that isn't really a rival and add any that is missing.
4. **Look at Topics.** Note which topics you lead and which a rival leads. Don't act on small differences yet.

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Day 1 numbers come from a single scan. One engine giving an unusual answer can move a topic noticeably, so treat them as a first look.
</Aside>

## Days 2 to 3: patterns appear

- **Daily scans add evidence.** Every engine is asked your questions again each day, and topic scores start averaging over more answers.
- **Tasks firm up.** A task appears once it is confirmed: seen on at least 2 days, or backed by at least 3 answers. Your task list grows and reorders in these first days.
- **Read a few answers.** Open **Prompts** and read what [ChatGPT](/chatgpt-visibility-tracker/) or Perplexity actually said for a question you care about. It makes the scores concrete.

## Days 4 to 7: start acting

- **Plan your week.** Open **Weekly plan** and choose **Plan my week**. It picks 2 On-Page, 2 Off-Page, 1 UGC and 1 Technical task.
- **Fix the technical basics first.** Anything in **Technical** that blocks an engine from reaching your pages limits every other effort.
- **Connect your coding agent** if you want fixes shipped from your editor. See [Connect over MCP](/docs/mcp/connect/).

## Day 7: your first reliable baseline

By day 7 every topic score rests on a full 7-day window. Note your topic scores and win rates now: this is the baseline to measure your work against.

## What runs on its own schedule

| What | How often |
| --- | --- |
| Buyer questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews | Daily |
| Claude (Growth) | Weekly, on Mondays |
| Brand perception | Weekly, on Mondays |
| Technical scan | Weekly, on Mondays |
| Reddit | Daily |
| AI crawlers (Cloudflare) | Hourly |

During the free trial, brand perception and Reddit run once rather than on a recurring schedule.