Start Your AI Agents: What Happens When Your Trial Starts
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Start Your Agents#
- Start your trial from the plan screen (Start Trial). Your agents turn on at that moment.
- You land on your AI Agents board.
- Wait a few minutes while the board says Your agents are finding your first work. The first proposals appear on the board as cards.
Connect your website first
Agents can only change pages on a connected website. Without one, they propose at most 3 requests to send pages to search engines, or a technical check. If the step Connect your site is not done yet, start there: see connect your website. Connecting Google Search Console lets them plan from your real clicks.
What Happens in the First Minutes#
| When | What you see | What is happening |
|---|---|---|
| Right after your trial starts | Your agents are finding your first work, then Analyzing your data now | Your agents read your site, your Search Console data and your competitors, then choose the work most worth doing. |
| Usually within a few minutes | Cards on the board, often starting with Your first fix is ready | The first proposals. A small change you can check first, such as a new page title or structured data for your business. See approve your first fix. |
| Within the hour | An email when your first fixes are ready to approve | Getting started on your dashboard shows Setup done once your first 3 fixes are approved or live. That line stays for a week, or until you click Dismiss. |
| Every Monday after that | New cards on the board | Your agents plan new work once a week. Nothing new is planned between runs, or while your list of open work is full. |
"That first run hit a snag"
The first run failed and nothing changed on your site. Click Try again. If it fails again, email contact@seomatic.ai.
What Your Agents May Do Without Asking#
Your agents run in Assisted mode unless an Owner or Admin changed it in Settings > AI Agents. Starting them again never changes it. In Assisted: changes that can be undone, such as titles, descriptions, links and structured data, go live on their own once our checks pass, with a daily email and one-click Undo. Bigger changes, such as redirects, page removals and bulk campaigns, always wait for your approval.
Want to approve everything first?
Before or after you start them, open Settings > AI Agents > Agent Settings, choose Approval and click Save. Nothing is then written to your site until someone on your team approves that exact task. See approval modes.
If Your Agents Are Not On#
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A window asking you to upgrade | Your workspace is on the Free plan, or your plan is no longer active. Agents do not act on the Free plan. | Pick a plan in the window. Your agents start on their own once it is active, in Assisted mode unless you changed it in Settings. See what the Free plan includes. |
- Does starting my agents cost anything?
- No. Starting them uses no credits. Credits are used when work runs, for example when a fix is written or an article is generated. See how credits work.
- Is the switch on the AI Agents board the same thing?
- Yes. Both turn your agents on, and both keep the mode set in Settings > AI Agents, which is Assisted until someone changes it.
- How do I stop my agents later?
- Turn off the switch at the top of your AI Agents board. Nothing runs, new or in progress, while it reads Agents off.
- I started them, but nothing appeared after an hour.
- See my agents are on but nothing is happening. The most common cause is a website that is not connected.
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