This guide takes you from sign-up to your first live campaign. Most people are done in 15 minutes.
1. Start your trial
Go to app.growwithghost.io/try, choose monthly or annual, and sign up with Google or email. Confirm your email address, then add a card in Stripe checkout.
You get 7 days free. You're billed on day 7 unless you cancel before then. See Plans and billing.
2. Let Ghost set itself up (about 90 seconds)
Quick onboarding asks for three things:
| Field | What Ghost does with it |
|---|---|
| Your LinkedIn URL (required) | Reads your headline, bio and recent posts to learn your voice |
| Your company website (required) | Works out what you sell and your industry |
| Who do you sell to? (optional) | Buyer job titles, industries, customer website keywords and locations. Leave it blank and Ghost builds your ICP from your website. |
Click Run Ghost Agent and watch it work. In about 90 seconds it:
- sets your voice
- builds your ICP and buyer personas
- drafts 5 content pillars
- finds 50 matching prospects
- drafts a starter campaign, called {Your company} — Starter Campaign
- writes your first 5 posts
Nothing is sent or published. The campaign is a draft and the posts are drafts. Finding the prospects uses about 50 of your 1,000 monthly credits.
3. Connect LinkedIn
Go to Campaigns → Outbound Config and click Connect LinkedIn. You sign in to LinkedIn on a secure page, then come back to Ghost. See Connect LinkedIn.
4. Connect email (optional)
To add email steps, connect Gmail, Google Workspace or Outlook in Outbound Config → Email Account. See Connect email.
5. Check your persona
Open Persona hub and check what Ghost learned: your company description, voice sliders, pillars and ICP. Everything Ghost writes, and every score it gives, comes from here. See Persona hub.
6. Review and launch your campaign
- Open Campaigns and click your starter campaign.
- Check the contacts and remove anyone who isn't right.
- Read every message in the sequence and edit anything that doesn't sound like you.
- Switch the campaign on.
Ghost starts sending within your daily limits, in working hours, and stops for anyone who replies.
7. Schedule your first post
Open Content Library, pick one of the 5 drafts, edit it, and schedule it. See Composer.
Your setup checklist
Your dashboard shows a Get set up with Ghost checklist until you're done:
- Connect LinkedIn
- Complete your persona brief
- Add 5 creators to your watchlist (Engagement hub)
- Schedule your first post
- Launch your first outbound campaign
What next
- Track competitor engagement with intent signals.
- Let the ICP Agent find new prospects every week.
- Work replies in the Inbox and Pipeline.
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT to run Ghost in plain English.