Quickstart: launch your first AI Twin in 60 seconds

Reality Twin turns your public website into a conversational AI Twin — a business-grade AI assistant that answers visitor questions with citations, qualifies leads, and hands off to your team when it matters. This quickstart takes you from signup to a live twin embedded on your site in about a minute, without writing a line of code.

You will need: a work email address, the root URL of the website you want your AI Twin to learn from, and access to your site template so you can paste one script tag. That's it — no engineering time, no infrastructure, no model tuning.

Step 1 — Create your Reality Twin account

1. Open https://realitytwin.io/auth and choose Sign up.
2. Enter your work email and a password, or continue with Google.
3. Confirm your email if prompted — the confirmation link is valid for 24 hours.
4. You land directly on the onboarding screen with one input: your website URL.

The free plan covers 100 conversations per month, which is enough to evaluate the product on a real site. You can upgrade later without losing any data — see the article Compare Free, Starter, Pro and Enterprise.

Step 2 — Connect your website

Paste your root URL (for example https://yourcompany.com) into the onboarding field. Reality Twin's crawler starts immediately: it follows internal links from the root, obeys robots.txt, extracts the visible text of each page, and builds a citable knowledge graph.

What the crawler indexes

• HTML pages linked from your root URL, up to your plan's page limit.
• Page titles, meta descriptions, headings, and body copy.
• Anchor text and internal link structure (used to build topical relationships).

What it skips by design

• Anything disallowed by robots.txt or blocked by your WAF.
• Login-gated content, admin routes, and query-string duplicates.
• Binary files (images, video). Upload PDFs and DOCX separately — see Upload PDFs, DOCX and Markdown.

Step 3 — Chat with your AI Twin

The dashboard opens on your new twin the moment indexing completes. Ask it questions your website already answers: pricing, product features, comparison against a competitor, opening hours, warranty terms. Every reply is grounded in the pages the crawler read, with clickable citations that jump straight to the source.

If an answer looks wrong, the fix is almost always at the source — see Fix wrong or outdated answers. Never edit response text directly.

Step 4 — Embed the chat widget

Copy the embed snippet from the Twin screen and paste it before the closing </body> tag in any page template. The widget loads a floating chat bubble anchored to the bottom-right corner by default.

<script async src="https://realitytwin.io/api/public/embed/YOUR_COMPANY_ID"></script>

For framework-specific instructions (Next.js, WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, HubSpot CMS), see Embed the chat widget on any page.

Step 5 — Verify the widget is live

1. Open your site in a private browser window.
2. Confirm the chat bubble appears within 2 seconds.
3. Send a test message — the reply should include a citation you can click.
4. Return to the Reality Twin dashboard and confirm the test conversation appears under Conversations.

What to do next

• Enrich knowledge — upload PDFs, product spec sheets and internal FAQs.
• Tune personality — set voice, tone, verbosity, and topic boundaries.
• Configure lead scoring — decide which conversations reach your inbox in real time.
• Connect your CRM — push qualified leads into HubSpot or Salesforce.
• Publish your marketplace profile so other twins can discover yours.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Pointing the crawler at a staging domain — always use the URL your visitors see.
• Leaving outdated pricing PDFs online after publishing new ones — delete stale versions or the twin may cite them.
• Skipping personality tuning — the default voice is neutral, which rarely matches a strong brand.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to set up an AI Twin?

For a typical marketing site with under 100 pages, expect 60–90 seconds from paste-URL to first reply. Larger sites index in a few minutes; the widget snippet takes another minute to install.

Do I need developers to launch a Reality Twin?

No. Setup is a URL paste and a single script tag. Developers only get involved if you want deeper integrations — custom CRM fields, Content Security Policy, or the REST API.

Can I try Reality Twin before adding a credit card?

Yes. The free plan covers 100 conversations per month and does not require a card. Upgrade only when you're ready to scale.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

Your twin keeps running until the end of the billing period, then switches to read-only. Data stays available for export for 30 days before deletion — see Change or cancel your plan.