# Quickstart

> Create your Endless account, set up your workspace with your brand and social accounts, and generate your first image in about five minutes.

Source: https://endless.okinawa/docs/get-started/quickstart

Create an account and a workspace, then generate your first image. Only the generation costs
credits.

<Steps>
  <Step>
    ### Create your account

    Sign in with Google or Microsoft, or enter your email and paste the code Endless sends you.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Set up your workspace

    If you were invited to a workspace, skip to [generate your first image](#generate-your-first-image):
    setup runs once per workspace.

    A new account gets a seven-step setup. The first step offers to read your website or social
    profile; choose **Enter details manually** (the second action under the field) to decide what
    Endless learns. Every field is optional and **Continue** always works.

    * **Brand**: name, what you do, voice, audience. This shapes the tone of everything Endless writes.
    * **Social accounts**: Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn.
    * **Reference links**: where Endless reads from.
    * **What to create first**: adjusts your first suggestions.
    * **Workspace name** and URL.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Send the starter prompt

    Endless creates your first [project](/docs/concepts/projects) with what you entered, then opens home
    with a starter prompt that mentions it, for example:

    ```
    Give me 5 content ideas for Northsole this week. @northsole
    ```

    Nothing is sent until you send it, and sending costs credits.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Generate your first image

    Open **Image** under **Tools** in the sidebar. **Manual** lets you choose the model and settings;
    **Agent** takes a description and chooses for you. In Manual, describe the image or select a
    preset card.

    ```
    A matte black bottle on wet stone, backlit at dawn, cinematic haze, shallow depth of field
    ```

    Before sending, check:

    * **The model.** Models your plan doesn't include are dimmed and name the plan they need. See
      [models](/docs/concepts/models).
    * **The cost badge** next to the composer. It is the amount you are charged.

    **Add reference** gives the model an image to start from; **Advanced parameters** opens the model's
    controls.

    <video src="/docs/videos/generate-an-image.mp4" width="1280" height="720" className="h-auto w-full rounded-lg border border-fd-border" />

    Start with an image, not a video: one video clip can cost more than a week's free credits.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Find it in the library

    Open **Library**. Your image is first; filter by project, type, creator, date, source or model.

    <ImageZoom src="https://static.endless.software/docs/screenshots/assets-7fe53b53.webp" alt="The Library: the title with its item count and an Upload file button, a filter bar with Add filter and suggested filters beside a search field, and below it a grid of campaign images grouped under Today, each captioned with its name, who made it, the model and when" width="1280" height="720" />

    It is private to you, even from admins, until you share it. See
    [assets and visibility](/docs/concepts/assets-and-visibility).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next steps

* [Tour](/docs/get-started/tour): every place in the app.
* [Models](/docs/concepts/models): how to pick one.