Your first hour

Do this once, on a town you know, before you do it at volume. It takes about an hour of wall-clock time, most of which is waiting on a discovery run, and about 850 of your 1,000 trial credits.

Before you start

You don't need a Cloudflare account or a domain of your own. You do need to choose where the site goes live before step 5: a new workspace starts on Your own domain, which can't publish until you set up Cloudflare and a domain.

Open Settings → Deployment, and under Publishing domain, choose one:

• Opportunora domain puts the site at sites.opportunora.com/<business-name>/. It needs no setup: select it, then press Publish on sites.opportunora.com to save the choice.
• Your own domain puts it at <business-name>.yourdomain.com. It needs a free Cloudflare account, a domain, and one DNS record. See Connect Cloudflare and Connect your own domain.

The Opportunora domain is the quickest way through this hour. Every address on it shows opportunora.com, though, and a client who looks that up finds an AI website builder. Use your own domain for sites you hand over. If you choose it, start now, because the DNS record takes minutes to spread. You can switch later: publishing a site again moves it and takes the old address offline.

These three can wait:

1. Set your company details. Settings → Company & legal feeds the footer of every generated site and the header of every invoice. Ten minutes now saves reissuing documents later.
2. Set your locale and currency. Settings → Invoice settings decides what a new invoice opens in.
3. Connect Stripe or PayPal, if you want the invoice at the end of this to be payable online.

1. Find one lead

Open Discover. Type a town, set a radius, and set Leads wanted to something small — 5 is plenty for a first run. Press Run discovery.

The run happens in the background and streams its progress. It reads business listings, fetches the sites it finds, scores each one on fixed criteria, and saves the businesses worth approaching with the reason attached.

About 480 credits. Expect several minutes.

When it finishes you get a table: the business, its category, its site score, an opportunity score and a sentence saying why it is a lead.

2. Turn one into an opportunity

Pick the one you would actually call. Create an opportunity from its row.

That gives the business a deal, a stage and a value. Everything downstream — a website, an invoice, tracked time — hangs off the opportunity rather than off the company, because you can sell the same business twice.

3. Generate the website

Open the opportunity and start the website. The generation studio shows you what it is about to build — the sections, the brand direction it derived, and what it read from the current site — then builds it.

About 78 credits. Expect a minute or two.

You get a complete static site: copy for that trade in that town, the business's own photographs copied into your workspace, and a privacy policy, because that one is not optional.

4. Fix the two things that are wrong

Open the editor. Read the site as a visitor would, then say what to change:

Make the headline about emergency callouts, not about the family history.

Point at an element first if the instruction is about that element specifically. Each round trip is about 35 credits and takes seconds.

Do not polish it to death on the first pass. Two or three rounds is the point where a site is worth showing.

5. Publish it

Approve & publish. The dialog tells you the exact address the site will have and warns you that this puts it on the public internet. On the Opportunora domain, a name can belong to only one site across every workspace. If another site already has this one, the dialog asks you to rename the website first.

It goes into a queue and uploads. On your own domain, it also attaches the hostname and waits for the certificate. A minute, usually.

The site is now live at sites.opportunora.com/<business-name>/ or <business-name>.yourdomain.com, and that address is fixed — renaming the website later does not move it.

6. Bill for it

Open Billing → New invoice. Pick the client, and either bill the won deal, pull in tracked time, or write lines by hand. The PDF preview updates as you type.

Set the payment method: bank transfer, a pay link, or an external link. Send it, and mark it paid when the money lands — or let the pay link do that for you.

What you have at the end

• A company, an opportunity and a project in the pipeline.
• A published website on the domain you chose, downloadable as a ZIP.
• An invoice with a number, a PDF and a status.
• About 150 credits left of the trial, and a real figure for what one lead costs you.

Where to go next

• The dashboard — how the app tells you what to do next.
• Find leads — every field on the run form and what it does.
• AI credits and plans — what a month actually costs.