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Getting started
Sign in, name your organisation, and create your first AI system — the five minutes of setup before the real work begins.
Three steps, about five minutes, and you are set up. Sign in with your email address; confirm your organisation's name and optionally add a logo; create your first AI system by giving it a name and describing what it does. That is the whole of getting started.
What comes after is the actual work, and it has its own pages. Clause50 organises it in three steps — Define what the system is and which duties apply, Prove you meet them, Generate the document you hand over — and the navigation on the left is arranged the same way. When you finish this page, you are at the start of Define.
More detail
1. Sign in
Clause50 uses a magic link — you type your email address on the sign-in page and click the link that arrives in your inbox. There is no password to choose or lose. If your deployment has Google sign-in configured, a Continue with Google button appears as a second option.
The first time an email address signs in, Clause50 creates an organisation for it and makes that person its owner. Everything created afterwards — systems, evidence, documents — belongs to that organisation and is not visible to anyone outside it.
2. Name your organisation
Straight after your first sign-in, Clause50 asks three short things. It is a one-time step, not a settings page, and you can skip it.
- Organisation nameWorth getting right, because this name appears on every evidence pack you produce. Clause50 guesses one from your email domain; the guess is often wrong, and correcting it here is easier than noticing it later on a document you have already sent someone.
- Logo — optionalPNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2 MB. It appears in your own dashboard header, next to the Clause50 mark. It is deliberately not put on generated evidence packs: a document whose job is to be verified by a stranger should not look like something you designed.
- How you found us — optionalOnly useful to us, and “prefer not to say” is a real option.
3. Create your first system
From the dashboard, choose New system. A “system” here is one AI system you are answerable for — a customer-facing chatbot, a document summariser, an image generator. If you are responsible for three of them, they are three systems, because the duties that apply to each may differ.
You are asked for three things:
- NameWhat you call it internally. It appears on every document Clause50 produces.
- PurposeWhat the system is for, in your own words.
- Deployment context — optionalWhere and how it runs.
A system created this way starts as a draft. It becomes active when you complete the intake in the next step.
What you should have now
An organisation with your name on it, and one system in draft with a name and a purpose. That is the correct state at the end of setup, and it is genuinely all you need before moving on.
What does not need to be true yet: a completed intake, a score, any evidence, a working connector, or a generated document. Each has its own page below, and none of them is a prerequisite for the next thing you do — the system record is.
Where to go next
The rest of Clause50 is three steps, and they run in order. Follow them and you will not need to guess what to do next.
- 1. Define — Systems and intakeAnswer the intake and the system goes from draft to active. Your answers are what decide which duties apply to you, so this is the step everything downstream depends on. Expect it to take longer than the setup you just did.
- 1. Define — CoverageRead your first score. Expect it to be low: it measures how much proof you have recorded, not how good your answers were, and at that point you have recorded none. A complete intake and a near-zero score is exactly right.
- 2. Prove — EvidenceClose the gaps, by recording what you already do. The quickest first win is a single statement against one requirement.
- 3. Generate — ArtifactsProduce the document you hand to an auditor, a customer, or an authority.
Stuck instead of moving on? The FAQ answers the questions people actually hit in their first ten minutes.