Settings and Setup

Settings owns the configuration that makes the rest of a project useful. Use it for brand setup, monitor management, access, and owned-source tracking foundations.

What belongs in Settings

Settings is where you manage:

  • Brand setup -- the primary brand, competitors, domains, aliases, and reanalysis actions
  • Monitors -- segment or campaign-like monitoring scopes, their models, cadence, geography, language, and status
  • Project access -- the people and teams who can work in the project
  • Tracking setup -- owned domains and tracking installation entry points where available
  • Project details -- name, status, and lifecycle actions

If a configuration changes how evidence is collected or interpreted, it usually belongs in Settings.

Monitors as scope

A monitor is the scope for a body of prompt evidence. It can behave like a segment, campaign, region, language, market, or recurring research programme.

Examples:

  • "UK buyer journey"
  • "US enterprise alternatives"
  • "Weekly competitor checks"
  • "Launch campaign prompts"

The product term remains Monitor, but the practical question is: "Which slice of the market should these prompts represent?"

Setup checklist

  1. Add or confirm the primary brand.
  2. Add the main competitors you want to benchmark against.
  3. Create at least one monitor with a clear scope.
  4. Add prompts to that monitor from Answers.
  5. Configure owned-domain tracking if you want Sources to include crawler and referral evidence.

When to return to Settings

Return to Settings when:

  • A competitor should be added, paused, or removed
  • A monitor needs a different cadence, model set, geography, or language
  • You need another monitor for a different segment or campaign
  • Brand aliases or domains have changed
  • A teammate needs project access

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