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Getting Started

This guide walks the complete onboarding loop for a content team. By the end you'll have a verified account with credit, a team with members, and roles assigned so people can start receiving work.

The whole sequence takes about ten minutes.

1. Register​

Go to vidiking.com/register and create an account with your email and a password. A new account starts with:

  • emailVerified = false
  • a wallet balance of $0

You can explore the operations pages immediately, but AI generation is gated until your email is verified and your wallet has a positive balance (see step 3).

2. Verify your email​

Open the verification email Vidiking sends and click the link (or enter the code). This sets emailVerified = true, which is one of the three conditions of the Gate.

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If you don't verify, you can still plan work, build workflows, assign tickets and approve — you just can't trigger AI jobs. Verification only gates the paid muscles.

3. Add credit​

Visit Wallet / Deposit and top up. The minimum top-up is $10, paid via Stripe. Your balance:

  • is shared across your whole organisation (one credit pool),
  • is valid for 12 months,
  • is only ever spent on AI jobs and renders — never on planning or collaboration.

See Credits & Billing for exactly what each operation costs.

4. Create a team​

Open Manage → Team & Roles (/team) and create your team. Creating a team automatically:

  • creates your Organisation (the top-level tenant that owns requests, sprints, workflows and the wallet), and
  • makes you the OWNER.

Everything you and your members do — every request, sprint and workflow — is scoped to this organisation.

5. Invite members (email or PIN)​

On the Team page, use Invite. For each invite you:

  1. enter the member's email,
  2. choose their role (you can change it later),
  3. send.

Vidiking does two things at once:

  • Creates the member's account immediately in an inactive state (isActive = false), already attached to your team and organisation with the role you chose. This means you can assign work to them right away, before they've even logged in.
  • Emails them a magic activation link and a 6-digit PIN. The PIN is also shown to you once on screen, so you can share it directly (handy for in-person or chat onboarding).

6. Member activates​

The invited member goes to /activate and either:

  • clicks the magic link from their email, or
  • enters their email + 6-digit PIN.

They then set a password. Activation:

  • sets a password,
  • sets isActive = true,
  • sets emailVerified = true (activating via a trusted invite counts as verification),
  • logs them straight in.

7. Log in​

Members log in at vidiking.com/login. Their session carries their identity, their organisation, and their role — which determines what they can see and do (see Roles & Permissions).

8. Assign roles​

Back on Team & Roles, each member has a role dropdown. Managers (MANAGER+ or the team owner) can change any member's role at any time. Roles control:

  • who can create and assign requests (MANAGER+),
  • who can run AI generation (CREATOR+),
  • who can approve at workflow gates (REVIEWER+),
  • who can publish (PUBLISHER+),
  • and who is read-only (VIEWER).
Assigning a role is not the same as assigning work

A role sets what someone is allowed to do. To give someone an actual task, open a Request and set them as the Assignee.

You're ready​

With a verified, funded account and a team in place, you can now:

  1. Create your first Request and decompose it into layers
  2. Attach a Workflow — or install one from the Marketplace
  3. Plan it on the Gantt and into a Sprint

Prefer to follow a single worked example all the way through? Jump to the Product Launch tutorial.