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Getting started with Quillly

Getting started with Quillly takes five steps. Quillly connects your AI assistant to your own website so you can research, write, SEO-score, and publish a post without leaving the chat — this guide walks you through the five steps from a blank account to your first live post. The only slow part is a one-time domain setup you do once and never touch again.

Before you start#

You need three things: a domain you control, an AI client that speaks MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Windsurf all do), and a Quillly account. On the free plan you can connect your AI and publish your first post at no cost — after that, publishing or editing more posts is a paid feature, and your first post stays live.

The five steps to publish your first post with Quillly, from adding a website to publishing

1. Add your website#

In the Quillly dashboard, add your website by entering its domain. Quillly creates the site and a default blog endpoint at /blogs. You can add more endpoints later — docs at /docs, a changelog at /changelog — each on its own path. See Content types & endpoints for the full model.

2. Verify your domain#

Quillly serves your content through a reverse proxy on your own domain: you forward a path (for example /blogs) to your Quillly serve URL, and every page renders under yourdomain.com. That is good for SEO, because the authority is yours — not a rented subdomain. Quillly confirms the connection by fetching the path and detecting a <meta name="quillly-site"> tag in the response. Once it sees the tag, the endpoint is marked verified. The dashboard gives you the exact proxy snippet for your host.

3. Create an API key#

Open the Integrations page in the dashboard and create an API key. Keys start with qly_. Treat it like a password — it authenticates every request your AI makes on your behalf. You can enable or disable individual tools per key.

4. Connect your AI client#

Point your AI client at the Quillly MCP endpoint:

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https://quillly.com/api/mcp

Each client connects a little differently — Claude uses a custom connector, ChatGPT uses Developer-mode connectors, and Cursor and Windsurf use an mcp.json entry. The step-by-step for each is in Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

5. Publish your first post#

Now just ask. Try:

"List my websites, write a short post introducing my product, score it for SEO, and publish it to my blog."

Your AI will call list_websites, create_content (saved as a draft first), get_blog_seo_patches to tighten the SEO, update_content to apply the fixes, and finally publish_content. The post goes live on your domain, your sitemap updates, and — if you have connected Google Search Console — it is submitted for indexing. Quillly scores every draft from 0 to 100, so you always see the quality before it ships.

Where to next#