# Getting started

Sign up, sign in, ten onboarding steps, and what happens in the first 36 hours.

Starlight takes business development off your plate. You subscribe, spend about fifteen minutes getting us set up, and personalized email and LinkedIn outreach goes out in your name until qualified meetings land on your calendar. This page is the whole path from sign up to live.

#### 1. Sign up

Sign up at [joinstarlight.com/checkout](/checkout). Payment is $2,800 a month through Stripe, with no setup fee, no annual plan, and no minimum term. You can pause or cancel any time.

#### 2. Sign in with the same email

After payment you land on a welcome page. Sign in with the exact email you paid with (Google, or a magic link sent to your inbox). Your account is created from the payment, so there is nothing else to register.

#### 3. Finish onboarding

Onboarding is ten short steps with a guide to walk you through them: your company, what you sell (we scan your website), who you buy from, your LinkedIn profile, connect email, connect calendar, LinkedIn access, your meetings, anything we should know, and a look at the 36 hour timeline.

#### 4. We go live within 36 hours

Once onboarding is complete, we research your buyers, write the first outreach in your voice, and start sending from your accounts. The first personalized messages go out within 36 hours or you get a full refund. See [the 36 hour guarantee](/docs/your-starlight/the-36-hour-guarantee).

## What we need from you

- The Gmail or Outlook account outreach should come from, connected with a secure sign in
- Your calendar, so meetings land where you will see them
- Access to your LinkedIn, arranged with Spencer at kickoff, so we can send LinkedIn outreach as you (see [LinkedIn and email access](/docs/your-starlight/linkedin-and-email-access))
- A sentence or two on who your best customers are and who takes the meetings

## What happens in the first 36 hours

- We read your website and LinkedIn and build a plain language picture of what you sell and who buys it
- We pick the first audience and the angle we will lead with
- We write the first batch of personalized messages in your voice
- Outreach starts going out from your email and your LinkedIn
- You see volumes on Home the same day, and your first weekly update the following Friday

> **Tip:** The more you share in the notes step (a customer story, a favorite past email, who to avoid), the sharper the first batch. You can always add more from Settings.