# Quickstart

From an empty account to your first synced leads in about ten minutes.

After signing in you land on **Signals**. That page is the engine room of FounderMCP: every row is one signal, and everything else — leads, templates, conversations — flows from what you configure here.

## 1. Add your first signal

Use the row at the bottom of the Signals table to add a signal — or tell the agent on the left what you want to track, and it sets the signal up for you. The row opens a panel with the signal types, grouped by where the signal comes from:

- **Company signals** — the signal comes from company data: a funding round, a technology in use. The lead is your way in at that company.
- **LinkedIn signals** — the signal happens on LinkedIn: someone reacts to a competitor's post, writes about your theme, or just took a new role.
- **HubSpot required** — signals that start from your portal: the accounts competitor sales are working, your champions changing jobs.

Not sure where to start? [Engagers with my content](/docs/signals/own-engagers) is the gentlest first signal — it harvests the people who already react to your own posts. [Competitor/integrator lead generation](/docs/signals/competitor) is the classic second one.

## 2. Point it at a source

Each type asks for its own source: a company page, a search query, a watchlist, a role and region. The type pages in this documentation describe exactly what each signal expects.

## 3. Decide who can become a lead

Most types end with the same question: *who can become a lead?* You can gate by job title, country, or whether the person already exists in your HubSpot. **Every gate starts switched off** — nothing is filtered until you turn a gate on. Some roles in the role list unfold into variants you can untick, so "founders, but not plain CEOs" is a choice, not a workaround.

## 4. Sync

Signals sync on a schedule — daily or weekly, set per row — and you can trigger any signal by hand with **Sync now** in the row menu. A syncing row pulses until the harvest lands. A few types have their own rhythm: [Companies using a technology](/docs/signals/tech-adoption) runs once or listens for new adopters, depending on its mode; [Leads that raised funding](/docs/signals/funding-raised) refreshes monthly.

## 5. Watch Leads fill

Open **Leads** while a sync runs and you'll see people drip in as they are enriched: profile, company, contact details, and the reason they surfaced. A lead exists from the moment the sync creates it; enrichment fills the columns.

## 6. Give the signal a voice

On **Templates**, create a template for the signal type you just configured: pick a channel strategy (for example *LinkedIn request → message → InMail*, or an email sequence) and write the text per step. New leads of that type get their opening message drafted from it.