Quick start guide

From zero to your first
data-driven content brief in 30 minutes.

This guide walks you through everything you need to get real value from Cosmiq on your first session. Follow in order.

6 steps
to follow
~30 min
total time
1 brief
ready to publish from
1
Pick your niche
About 2 min

Choose from 8 pre-built niches (home fitness, food, AI, beauty…) or create a custom one. Cosmiq immediately starts showing you trending content.

You can have up to 8 spaces on the Plan tier
Add a custom keyword list to sharpen the data
Switch between niches anytime from the sidebar
2
Explore the intelligence dashboard
About 5 min

Click into any Space to see top videos (sorted by views), rising creators, trending hashtags, and monthly view estimates for your niche.

Top videos are sorted by views in the last 30 days
Click a creator to see their full profile and posting patterns
Hashtag bar shows share of voice — find the ones still with low saturation
3
Create your first board
About 3 min

Go to Boards and create a new one. This is your content strategy workspace. Think of it as a mood board that also has AI built in.

Name your board after a content series or campaign
Each niche can have unlimited boards
Boards auto-save every 800ms
4
Add nodes to your canvas
About 5 min

From the toolbar, add a Video node, Hashtag node, and Creator node. Paste a YouTube URL into the video node — it auto-fetches the thumbnail and title.

Paste any YouTube URL and it loads automatically
Connect nodes by dragging from the right handle to another node
Hold Ctrl/⌘ + scroll to zoom in and out
5
Chat with the AI about what you see
About 5 min

Add an AI Chat node. The AI sees everything on your board — all your videos, hashtags, and creators. Ask it what hook pattern is driving the top videos, or to write you 5 content ideas based on what's trending.

Try: "What hook pattern appears most in these videos?"
Try: "Write 5 content ideas based on this hashtag trend"
Try: "Why is this creator growing faster than the others?"
6
Turn insights into your first post
About 10 min

You now have a trend signal, a hook pattern identified by AI, and a content idea. Open a Note node and write your script. Your content research took 20 minutes instead of 3 hours.

Save your board — it stays for next week's research too
Duplicate boards to run the same research on a different niche
Share your referral link from the Earn page to get lifetime credits
🎉

You're ready.

You now have a content brief built on real trend data and AI insights. Most creators who do this once never go back to manual research.

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