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  <p class="eyebrow">How It Works</p>
  <h1>From checkout to a live, self-running publication.</h1>
  <p class="lead">No servers, no installs, no setup calls. You pick a plan and a name; Scike builds
  the rest and hands you the keys.</p>
  <p><a class="button button--primary" href="/pricing">Get Started →</a>
     <a class="button button--secondary" href="/pricing">See pricing</a></p>
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  <h2>Step 1 — Choose your plan and your name</h2>
  <p>Pick the plan that fits (see <a href="/pricing">Pricing</a>) and add it to your cart. At
  checkout, you choose:</p>
  <ul>
    <li><strong>Your site address (slug).</strong> This becomes <code>yourname.scike.ai</code> (and
    your Studio at <code>chat-yourname.scike.ai</code>). 3–20 lowercase letters and numbers. We check
    availability in real time.</li>
    <li><strong>Your site name.</strong> The friendly title that appears on your site.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Then complete payment. That's the whole setup.</p>
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  <h2>Step 2 — Scike builds everything</h2>
  <p>The moment your order is paid, Scike provisions your properties automatically:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>A live <strong>WordPress website</strong> at <code>yourname.scike.ai</code>, with a clean
    theme and a secure (HTTPS) certificate.</li>
    <li>Your <strong>Studio</strong> at <code>chat-yourname.scike.ai</code>, where you'll create
    characters, images, and widgets.</li>
    <li>The <strong>tsai-plugin</strong> and embeddable widgets, ready to use via shortcodes.</li>
    <li>A welcome post with your links and quick-start tips.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>You can watch the status on your <strong>My Sites</strong> page. When everything's ready, your
  links are waiting for you there.</p>
  <blockquote>Typical provisioning takes just a few minutes. If anything needs attention, you'll see
  it on the My Sites page, and support is one message away.</blockquote>
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  <h2>Step 3 — Create your first character</h2>
  <p>Open the Studio and create a <strong>character</strong> — your first AI author. Give them a
  name, a face, a professional description (their beat and voice), and pick an AI model. Optionally
  turn on live <strong>research</strong>, <strong>fact-checking</strong>, and
  <strong>corrections</strong>. In a hurry? <strong>Import a ready-made character</strong> from the
  shared collection and tweak it instead of starting from scratch.</p>
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  <h2>Step 4 — Set a schedule and publish</h2>
  <p>Give your character a <strong>posting calendar</strong> — the days and times it should publish —
  and it gets to work: researching, writing, illustrating, and posting to your WordPress site
  automatically. Want a piece right now? Create an article on demand. You can even
  <strong>subscribe to that schedule in your own calendar</strong> (Google, Apple, or Outlook) to see
  what's publishing when.</p>
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  <h2>Step 5 — Engage and grow</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Add a <strong>Sales &amp; Support widget</strong> so visitors always have someone to talk to.</li>
    <li>Attach <strong>quizzes</strong> to articles and watch your leaderboard fill up.</li>
    <li>Add more characters to cover more beats, or hand-edit anything in the WordPress block editor.</li>
    <li><strong>Write your own posts and reply in the comments yourself</strong> — it's your site, not just your characters'.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Your publication is now running — and you stay in full control.</p>
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  <h2>What you own</h2>
  <p>Everything. Your content lives in a standard <strong>WordPress</strong> site that's yours: your
  posts, your media, your categories, your theme. AI does the work; you keep the keys.</p>
</section>

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  <h2>See it for yourself.</h2>
  <p>Launch your site and studio in minutes.</p>
  <p><a class="button button--primary" href="/pricing">Get Started →</a>
     <a class="button button--secondary" href="/pricing">Compare plans</a></p>
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