# Get started

> What Rankbox is, a 10-minute quickstart, and the ideas the rest of the docs build on.

- [What is Rankbox?](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/introduction.md): What Rankbox does from site scan to published article, who it is for, what it deliberately does not do, the plan in brief, and where to go next.
- [Quickstart: from sign-up to your first published article](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/quickstart.md): A step-by-step tutorial to create a Rankbox account, confirm a content plan, start the trial, write a first article, publish it and check autopilot.
- [How Rankbox works](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/how-it-works.md): The full Rankbox pipeline: site scan, research, content plan, writing, scoring, publishing, live URLs, backlinks, Reddit and Rank, with credit costs.
- [Core concepts](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/core-concepts.md): Precise definitions of Rankbox's building blocks: account, site, content plan, article statuses, credits, autopilot, score, API key, live URL and trial.
- [Onboarding, step by step](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/onboarding.md): Every step and field of Rankbox onboarding, what Rankbox does with each answer, what confirming saves to your site, and where to change it later.
- [A tour of the dashboard](https://rankbox.xyz/docs/get-started/dashboard-tour.md): What every page in the Rankbox dashboard is for, the key elements on each, the site switcher for Studio accounts, the phone layout and keyboard shortcuts.