Setting up your workspace

Signing up takes a few short screens: create an account, tell us about your company, answer three quick questions, and start your trial. Here’s what each one asks for and why.

Create an account

Sign up with an email and password, or continue with Google.

If you arrived from the Competitor Finder having already picked some competitors, they come with you — the next screen shows them back to you under Confirm your workspace rather than making you enter them again.

Tell us about your company

Outmano asks for two things: your company name and your website URL. If you came in through the finder, both are pre-filled from your domain and stay editable.

Why Outmano tracks your own product

Saving that form does one thing beyond creating the workspace: it starts tracking your own product, using your company name and website.

This is what every comparison is anchored on. Without a baseline there’s no “you” in you versus them — no rank on the dashboard, no radar in Compare, no feature catalog for the gap matrix, and no battlecard, since a battlecard is built around how you win.

Your own product doesn’t count against your plan’s competitor limit, and it’s excluded from things that only make sense for rivals — you won’t get alerts about your own pricing changes, and there’s no battlecard against yourself.

Answer three quick questions

After saving your company, Outmano asks three questions — one per screen, one tap each:

• How did you find Outmano? — tells us which channels actually bring people here, so we invest in the ones that work. There’s an optional field if you want to be more specific.
• What do you do? — your role tells us who we’re building for, which shapes what gets built next.
• What brings you here? — whether you’re here to watch competitors, compare pricing and features, or research a market. This tunes what Outmano sends you, so the emails match what you came to do.

Every answer saves as you go — leave mid-way and you’ll resume at the first unanswered question next time. The questions are optional: Skip for now takes you straight to the trial page, and skipping never affects your trial or your plan.

Start your trial

After the questions, onboarding ends at the billing page. Competitor data fetching starts once your subscription does, so nothing is crawled — and nothing is charged — until you begin the trial. See Plans and billing for how the trial works.

Then add competitors

With the trial running, add the competitors you want to watch: How to add a competitor. If you picked competitors in the finder before signing up, they’re already there.

Once a competitor is added, confirm what Outmano discovered on its Setup tab.