# Getting started

> Start from your website: Outscope reads what you sell, suggests buying signals and reads today's job postings for a free preview of companies. No card.

Canonical: https://outscope.co/docs/getting-started
Last updated: 2026-11-09

You give Outscope your website. It works out what you sell and who buys it, suggests the signals a job posting would show, and reads today's postings for a free preview of the companies that match. It takes a few minutes and no card.

## The five steps

1. **Sign up.** With your email or Google, at [outscope.co/signup](https://outscope.co/signup). With email, we send a link to confirm the address first.

2. **Enter your website.** We read your pages and make a workspace named after your site; you can rename it in Settings. Under the field, one optional question asks where you heard about us.

   ![The first setup step: ballast.to typed into the website field, and the campaign starting to take shape on the right as "Companies that need Ballast right now"](https://outscope.co/docs/onboarding-site.webp)

3. **Check what we found.** What you sell, who buys it, the signals and the keywords. Correct anything that's off: change a signal's weight, rule one out, add or remove keywords. The preview reads postings with exactly what you leave here, so this is the step worth a minute. [Signals and keywords](https://outscope.co/docs/signals) explains what makes a good one.

4. **Find companies.** We pick today's postings that use your keywords, read them against your signals, and rank the companies that match, best first. They arrive as they're read, usually within a minute.

5. **Open a company.** Each one shows why it's on the list: the line from its posting, marked, with a link to the posting itself.

## What the free preview includes

- Up to 100 of today's postings, read against your signals.
- The top three companies in full, each with the line that shows why.
- One preview per person. No card, and nothing to cancel.

We read a fixed number of postings for free each day, across everyone. If today's are used, the preview says so and picks up where it stopped the next day. If no company matched today, it says that too: a plan reads every board each morning, so new companies show up as they post.

## After the preview

A plan shows every company that matched, finds [who to email](https://outscope.co/docs/who-to-email) at each, reads new postings every morning, and [exports](https://outscope.co/docs/exports). Owners and admins choose one on the workspace's Plans page: see [plans and credits](https://outscope.co/docs/plans-and-credits). Nothing that costs money runs before you do.