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# Start Here

Start with a guided setup, not a rushed website build.

Get Established On The Web starts with a prepared foundation for using AI to build your online presence.

The draft primary path is guided setup. The goal is not to rush into a website. The goal is to build a simple, credible foundation that can become a website without losing the thinking behind it.

Get Established Workspace is the public-friendly name for that foundation: an AI-ready folder of organized files for your goals, audience, offer direction, website drafts, prompts, open questions, and next steps. When the technical source-of-truth matters, that same workspace is the Get Established Repository.

If you are unsure where to begin, use the discovery prompt or setup guide first. They help turn rough ideas into the first foundation pieces: identity, audience, offer direction, proof, and pages.

After those basics are captured, use a short positioning conversation to clarify what you want the online presence to help people understand first. That gives AI better direction before it drafts deeper website copy, business plan notes, or a future one-page website output.

## First Steps

1. Use the discovery prompt or setup guide to clarify the foundation.
2. Write a short description of who you are or what the project is.
3. Define the audience you most want to help.
4. List the offer, service, or outcome you want people to understand first.
5. Choose the early positioning direction for the online presence.
6. Capture proof, credibility, examples, or assets that can support the message.
7. Draft the first website pages in plain Markdown, a simple text format that is easy to read and edit.
8. Store decisions, prompts, and drafts in the Get Established Workspace, with GitHub as the repository history for the work.
9. Ask AI assistants working from the repository files for focused improvements, then review the results.

## What To Create First

- A short identity statement.
- A target audience note.
- A draft offer direction.
- A first homepage draft.
- A simple page list.
- A place for open questions that do not block the current work.
- A backlog of next tasks.

## Use This If

- You are starting a business or project website from loose notes.
- You need a clearer professional or service-provider web presence.
- You want to learn GitHub and AI-assisted work through a real repository.
- You want a flexible one-page business website draft later, after your real business inputs are clear.
- You are an agent or collaborator continuing this project.

## How To Use This Repository

Read the planning documents, then run one prompt at a time. Each prompt should leave the repository clearer than it was before.

Good work here is small and traceable. A future reader should be able to understand why a file exists and what task should happen next.

Guided setup keeps early decisions practical: clarify the foundation, draft pages, review the work, and wait on final pricing, packaging, public call to action, or publishing decisions until they are actually needed.

The Get Established On The Web public website explains this method. Future user one-page business websites are separate outputs that can be drafted from a user's own approved inputs.

## Link Intent

- Use `../../../Docs/Setup/UserSetupGuide.md` as the deeper beginner guide.
- Use `../../../Docs/Setup/TemplateGuidance.md` when someone wants to copy the method into another repository.
- Use `../../../Docs/Prompts/UserDiscoveryPrompt.md` as the first practical prompt.
- Continue to `HowItWorks.md` when the reader wants the full method.

## Open Decisions

The final public call-to-action path is still open. This page should keep guiding users toward the foundation step until that decision is confirmed.
