Quickstart

You need a Google account and a few minutes. You end with your own organization and a thread where Continual is already at work.

Set up your business

1. 1

   Sign in with Google

   Open Continual and choose Continue with Google. By continuing, you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy.

2. 2

   Choose where you start

   Under Let’s get to work., choose Grow my business or Start a business.

3. 3

   Describe the business

   To grow a business, enter your website, such as yourcompany.com, and choose Continue. Continual names the business from it. No website yet? Choose Tell us what you do, describe what you sell and who buys it, then enter the business's name.

   To start a business, describe your idea in a sentence or two, and choose Continue.

   You can choose Skip for now on a description or a name. Continual asks for what it needs in your thread.

4. 4

   Wait while Continual sets up your organization

   You see Setting up and your business's name. Continual creates your organization, makes you its admin, installs its apps, and opens your thread. If something stops it, you see That didn’t work. and the reason. Choose Try again.

5. 5

   Read Continual's first message

   Continual opens your thread with what it starts on, such as "I'm getting to know your business from https://yourcompany.com: what you sell, and who buys it." It keeps working while you read.

Sign in to an organization that exists

When you sign in, Continual lists the organizations you can open:

• Your organizations lists the ones you belong to. Choose one to open it.
• Open to your domain lists organizations that anyone at your company's domain can join. Choose Join.
• Create an organization sets up a new business, as above.

If you have none of these, setup starts at once. If someone invited your email address, you join their organization when you sign in with that Google account.

Try these next

Write in Message Continual at the bottom of your thread and press ↵. Press / to jump to the box. Some things to ask:

• "Show me our open deals."
• "Draft a follow-up to every quote nobody answered this week."
• "What should I do first today?"

When Continual opens a record or a list, it shows beside your thread. When it needs a decision, it offers choices you pick with one key. Before a change the business is bound by, such as issuing an invoice, it asks you to Approve or Decline. See approvals.

When Continual needs you to act, it gives you a to-do. The count on To-dos, in the message box, says how many wait. Switch to To-dos and open one to work on it. See work through your to-dos.

Next steps