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Setup Takes Weeks: What's Automatic and What You Actually Set

"Setup takes weeks and I don't have weeks." Most of that time goes on teaching a tool things it could read for itself, so here's what's automatic and what's actually your job.

Owner problems · 4 min read

Anyone who's onboarded a chatter or a tool knows the routine. Brief, docs, scripts, price sheets, two weeks of corrections. By the time it's working you've forgotten why you started.

The fix is to let the system read what's already on the account. You then only decide the things only you can decide.

What happens by itself

You connect Fanvue with one click through Fanvue's own login. We never ask for your password, and you can disconnect any time. That also turns on purchase tracking. From there:

What you actually set

Six things, and the first two are the only ones you can't skip.

1. Who she is

Fill in her profile: name, age, where she lives, job, hobbies and interests, and her style. Pick a premade style or write your own. Add extra instructions if you have them.

2. What she may sell

In the Vault, choose the folders she may use. Only pictures in those folders are ever sold or sent. You can also switch off any single item.

3. Your prices

Set a price for each level of the Pricing Ladder. Scripts can be priced by the AI per fan, or by hand if you'd rather.

4. Script order

Drag the scripts into the order you prefer. If you already have scripts that sell, we can rebuild them from your past Fanvue chats, so you don't start from nothing.

5. Your big spenders

Set the whale settings, and decide who stays with a human. The per-fan switch turns her off for one guy.

6. Who she talks to

Every fan, or only the ones you switch on. Then set up alerts so you hear about purchases and new subscribers on your computer or through a Telegram bot.

The setup checklist on the dashboard shows what's still missing, so you don't need to keep this list open.

Don't polish the profile for a week. Get the first two steps done and switch her on for a few fans. You'll learn more from ten real chats than from another hour on her backstory.

Where your time should go

The real work comes after setup, and it's the part worth doing. Read her chats during the first days. When she does something you don't like, tell Debug what she should have done, and it becomes a rule for all her Fanvue chats. "What would she say now?" shows her next answer without sending anything.

That's where a good account gets its character. It's also about the same job as correcting a new chatter, except every correction sticks.

The social side is a separate job

All of the above is EmpireChat, the AI chatter on Fanvue. EmpireBot, which chats on social platforms and brings guys to Fanvue, takes a bit more. It runs through a browser extension, in the browser profile where her social accounts are logged in, with each platform's messages tab left open. You don't need it to start. Get Fanvue running first and add it when you're ready. Each platform has its own rules, so read them before you switch it on.

What to do first

There's no setup fee and a new account gets $10 starting credit, which covers the fee on $100 of AI sales. So the only thing you're spending on that first group is the time to read the chats.

Let the AI do the chatting

EmpireChat answers your fans, sells your PPVs and looks after your whales, built on what's in this article. You pay 10% of the gross of what it makes, and your first $100 of AI sales are on us.

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