> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ankra.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Guided Setup

> Go from a new organisation to a live website in four steps: a free cluster, your welcome credit, where the code lives, and a website Ankra generates from one sentence.

Guided setup walks a new organisation from nothing to a website running on its own cluster, with a public address. Open it from the first-run screen (**Guided setup: a live website in ten minutes**) or go straight to `/organisation/onboarding`.

There are four steps. Each one shows its progress and remembers where you got to, so you can leave and come back.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create your cluster">
    One click creates your organisation's free cluster - a [playground](/guides/cluster-sandbox). Playgrounds are moving to Ankra Cloud dev clusters, a single-node Kubernetes cluster managed by Ankra; this is rolling out. The step shows the cluster provisioning, the domain your apps will be published under, and, for a free cluster, when it ends.

    If your organisation already has a playground, the step picks it up instead of creating a second one.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Unlock your credit">
    Click **Add payment method** to save a card. Saving it unlocks **€249 of credit, valid for 60 days**, which pays for your resources before anything is charged to the card.

    <Check>
      **You will never be charged without a top-up.** Your card is only charged when you add credit yourself. Automatic top-up stays off unless you turn it on.
    </Check>

    We recommend turning automatic top-up on in **Billing** once you are running something you care about: when your credit runs low it adds more, so your services keep running without a pause. See [Credit and payment method](/platform/billing#credit-and-payment-method) for how credit is spent.

    Cards are handled by Stripe; Ankra never sees your card number. You can skip this step and come back to it, but without a card a free Ankra Cloud dev cluster lasts 24 hours.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose where the website lives">
    Pick one:

    * **The Ankra default** - no repository. Ankra deploys the generated site straight to your cluster as a Stack.
    * **A new GitHub repository** - Ankra creates the repository in the GitHub account or organisation you choose (public or private), commits the site to it, and registers it as an [application](/concepts/applications). Every push to the repository is built and deployed to your cluster. This option needs a [GitHub connection](/integrations/github).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Launch your website">
    Describe the website you want in one sentence - for example *"a landing page for a neighbourhood bakery with opening hours and a contact form"*. Ankra's AI generates a complete, responsive site and deploys it to your cluster.

    The step follows the site through designing, deploying and live, then links to the public address and, if you chose a repository, to the code.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you end up with

* A Kubernetes cluster managed by Ankra, with the Ankra agent installed and connected.
* A website served from that cluster at a public address under the cluster's domain.
* With a repository: an application whose builds and deploys run on every push, the same way as any other [application](/concepts/applications).

From here, everything in the [Quickstart](/get-started/quickstart) works on the same cluster: deploy a Stack, browse live resources, and ask Ankra's AI about what is running.

## Good to know

* Website generation uses your organisation's AI allowance. One website is generated at a time per organisation.
* Steps you cannot complete - for example adding a card without billing permissions - can be skipped. Ask a billing owner in your organisation to add the payment method.
* The free cluster is for development and evaluation. See [Playground](/guides/cluster-sandbox) for its limits and how long it lasts.


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