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Start: Brain-Dump Onboarding

Tell BlackOps what you know — speak it, type it, or upload it — and walk out with a compiled AI knowledge base and your first post built on it.

The /start flow turns what you already know into two things: a brain (your personal AI knowledge base) and a first post built on its specifics. You never start from a blank page, and you never get asked for an email before you've seen what the system understood.

The steps

  1. Brain dump. Tell us what you're passionate about. Speak it (we transcribe), type it, or upload a document (pdf, docx, md, or txt — up to 10MB). All three land in the same pipeline.
  2. Interview. We ask a handful of questions — each one built on something specific you said, and each shows you the exact phrase it's digging into. Thin input gets more questions; rich input gets fewer, sharper ones.
  3. The reveal. Your material and answers come back structured: themes, the concrete specifics under each, and the founding notes of your brain. If it looks right, tell us where to send it — your email creates the account it lives in, no password.
  4. Your look. Drop a link you own — your website, or your LinkedIn/X profile — and your site takes on your visual identity before anything publishes. Websites get their declared colors, type, and logo read directly; profiles get a fifteen-second guided pick instead (curated palettes, type pairings, and your avatar, an upload, or a generated wordmark as the logo). No hex codes anywhere, and a quiet skip if you'd rather style it later. See Brand Identity Capture.
  5. Angles. Post ideas built on the specific details you gave — each card names the exact quote it stands on. Not "5 tips about your topic."
  6. Details. Picking an angle starts a short second interview (one to three questions, skippable) scoped to that post. Those answers also land back in your brain as a note, so every post you write makes the next one sharper.
  7. Publish and share. The draft is written from your words, editable inline (your rewrite teaches your brand voice), published to your hosted site — in your captured identity — with share copy for X and LinkedIn in your voice.

Where things live afterward

  • Your brain is a real, compiled knowledge base in your account — no GitHub or vault connection required. Every AI feature that grounds on brains (replies, drafts, agents) can use it immediately, and you can add notes to it any time.
  • Your post is live on your hosted site and editable from the dashboard like any other post.
  • The full promotion machinery (scheduling, campaigns, multi-platform posting) unlocks in the dashboard once you connect your accounts.

Notes

  • Nothing is created until you submit material, and unclaimed sessions expire automatically after 72 hours.
  • Everything you submit passes moderation before it can reach a hosted page.
  • If you leave mid-flow, coming back to /start resumes exactly where you were.
  • If you saved your brain but stalled before publishing, we send at most three reminders (a day, three days, and a week after you stop) — each names your actual brain, links straight back to where you left off, and has a one-click stop link that needs no login.

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