New software has a reputation for being a mountain to climb before it does anything useful — a blank screen, a hundred settings, and a sinking feeling that you’ll need a free afternoon and a manual just to begin. That initial friction is where a lot of good intentions die: the tool gets signed up for, opened once, and never returned to, because the first session felt like work rather than progress.
Asset Giant deliberately flattens that on-ramp with a short, guided setup wizard. It asks a few straightforward questions about your business and configures everything sensibly on your behalf, so within minutes you’re looking at a system that’s ready for your first asset rather than a blank slate you have to assemble yourself.
A gentle on-ramp
The wizard is built to get you to “useful” as quickly as possible:
- A few simple questions. It asks about your business and how you work, not for a long list of technical decisions.
- Sensible defaults applied for you. Rather than confronting you with empty settings, it sets up a working configuration you can refine later.
- AI tuning baked in. What you tell the wizard about your trade makes the AI’s suggestions noticeably more accurate from your very first photo.
Always there when you need it
Crucially, the wizard isn’t a one-shot gate you have to get perfect on day one. You can re-run it from your dashboard whenever you like — after taking on a new line of work, say — and every setting it touches can also be adjusted individually in settings as your needs grow. So the initial run gets you moving fast, and nothing it does is locked in.
In practice, getting started looks like this:
- Run the wizard when you first sign in.
- Answer its few questions about your business.
- Start adding assets straight away, with the AI already tuned to your trade.
- Refine any details later in settings, or re-run the wizard if things change.
Best Practice: Give the business-description step a moment’s thought rather than rushing it. A clear, specific answer there is what makes the AI’s suggestions genuinely useful from the outset.
For more, see Running the Onboarding Wizard and the quick-start checklist in Welcome to Asset Giant: What to Do First.