Quickstart

This walkthrough takes you from a fresh browser tab to a published post. You need a Google account or any email address, and access to at least one social account you want to post from (a LinkedIn profile or page, an X account, an Instagram professional account, or a Facebook page).

Everything below happens in the dashboard at app.inklate.com. Agents can do the same steps over MCP or the REST API — see Connect an agent once your organization exists.

1. Sign in

Inklate is passwordless. Open app.inklate.com and choose one of two ways in:

• Continue with Google — one click, no code.
• Email code — enter your email address and Inklate sends you a 6-digit code. Type it in and you’re signed in.

There is no password to create, so there is nothing to forget or leak. Signing in with the same email later — by either method — lands you in the same account.

2. Create your organization

New accounts go through a short three-step onboarding:

1. Welcome — confirm your name and optionally tell us what you do and how you found Inklate.
2. Organization — name your organization and pick its URL handle (shown as app.inklate.com/<slug> as you type). An organization is Inklate’s workspace: your channels, posts, teammates, and billing all live inside it. Use one per brand or client.
3. Plan — start the 14-day free trial (card up front, first charge on day 14) or pay today. There is no free tier at signup.

The whole flow is covered in more detail in Onboarding and billing. Once the plan step completes, you land on the dashboard.

3. Connect a social profile

Posts can only go somewhere once a channel is connected.

1. In the sidebar, open Social Profiles (under Content; it lives at Settings → Social Profiles).
2. Choose Connect a profile. You’ll see one card per network — LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook are live today; networks marked “Coming soon” aren’t connectable yet.
3. Click Connect on a network. Inklate sends you to that network’s own OAuth consent screen — you authorize Inklate there, never by typing a password into Inklate.
4. After authorizing, pick which profiles and pages become channels. One LinkedIn authorization, for example, can add both your personal profile and any pages you manage; each becomes its own channel.

Each connected channel shows up on the provider’s page with its health and expiry status. See the Channels section for per-network specifics.

4. Compose your first post

1. Click Create new post at the top of the sidebar.
2. Write your content in the Base tab — this is the story, the platform-agnostic version of the post. Add text, images, or video from the toolbar.
3. In the channel bar, open the channel picker and check the channels you want to publish to. Each checked channel gets its own tab with a platform-native preview; the content is adapted to that platform’s format automatically, and you can edit any channel’s version independently without touching the others.
4. Watch the fit-check under the editor. Inklate validates every channel against that platform’s real rules — length limits, media counts, aspect ratios — before you publish, and flags anything that would fail with a suggested fix.

The Composer section covers per-channel variants, syncing, and media rules in depth.

5. Publish or schedule

In the rail on the right:

• Post now publishes to every selected channel immediately.
• Schedule takes a date and time (entered in your local timezone) and publishes automatically at that moment.

Either way, each channel publishes independently — one network failing never blocks the others, and per-channel status is visible on the post afterward. Scheduled and published posts appear in All posts (the calendar), and the dashboard tracks what’s queued, published, and failing across the organization.

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