Release notes: onboarding that sends you back to your AI
Our new first-run flow stops trying to be a dashboard you live in. Connect Bailey to your assistant, then go back to the chat — that's where the work happens.
We just shipped a new onboarding flow, and it’s built around an idea that took us a while to fully accept: the dashboard is not where you should be spending your time. Your AI assistant is. So the best thing onboarding can do is connect the two and get out of your way.
What changed
The old mental model for a tool like this is “sign up, land in a dashboard, learn the dashboard.” We replaced it with four screens that do one job — plug Bailey into your assistant and point you back at the conversation:
- Welcome — what Bailey does, in one breath. No tour.
- Connect — link Bailey to your AI (Claude, ChatGPT, …) once. This is the whole setup. It’s the MCP connection under the hood, but you just see “connect.”
- Back to AI — the deliberate hand-off. We tell you, plainly, to go back to your assistant and ask it to publish something. That’s the product.
- Control room — the dashboard, reframed. Not a place you live — a place you glance at when you want to see what’s live, who signed up, or kill something.
Why “MCP-first”
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the channel that lets your assistant actually do the work: create a site, publish a page, check submissions, take something offline. All of it stays governed by the platform, so the convenience of “just ask” never costs you the safety of bounded, auditable data.
The shift in thinking: we stopped treating the chat as a funnel into the dashboard, and started treating the dashboard as a quiet companion to the chat. The manual file-drop path is still there — it’s a solid escape hatch — but the default road is: connect once, then never leave your assistant.
The small stuff
- First-run routing now detects whether you’ve connected an assistant yet and sends you to the right screen instead of dumping everyone on the same page.
- Copy throughout is plainer. We cut the word “deploy.” Nobody publishing their first restaurant page should have to learn what “deploy” means.
If you onboarded a while ago, nothing breaks — but it’s worth a look at the Connect screen to make sure your assistant is linked. Once it is, the next move is always the same: go ask it to put something online.