> Content index: https://quillly.com/docs/llms.txt > Canonical page: https://quillly.com/docs/getting-started --- title: Getting Started With Quillly — Publish From Your AI description: Add your website, verify your domain, create an API key, connect Claude or ChatGPT, and publish your first post to your own domain with Quillly. keywords: getting started with quillly, quillly setup, publish from AI, connect AI to website, quillly api key published: 2026-07-11 updated: 2026-07-25 url: https://quillly.com/docs/getting-started word_count: 557 --- # Getting started with Quillly > Add your website, verify your domain, create an API key, connect Claude or ChatGPT, and publish your first post to your own domain with Quillly. Canonical: https://quillly.com/docs/getting-started Published: 2026-07-11 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](https://quillly.com/serve/v1/019c64a2-a62f-7793-aa68-2c78316d3309/images/f2a8e3f5daa4f425081e5a28d000d90f52d0b8a3.webp) ## 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](/docs/content-types) 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 `` 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: ``` 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](/docs/connect-your-ai). ## 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 - [Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor](/docs/connect-your-ai) — exact setup per client, plus first prompts to try. - [Content types & endpoints](/docs/content-types) — blogs, docs, changelogs, and tracked pages. - [Deploy hook: keep tracked pages fresh](/docs/deploy-hook) — re-check your pages the moment you ship. - [How Quillly scores your content](/docs/seo-scoring) — what the SEO score measures and how to hit 90+.