Getting started
Sonar setup, in about three minutes.
Setting Sonar up takes about three minutes and no card: sign in, choose where you build your audience, give Sonar your LinkedIn or connect X, and say what you want your posts to get you. Sonar builds your Intelligence Pack and ends on five posts in your voice to swipe through; the ones you keep land in your drafts. Everything else it read about you, you check later from Getting started.
Before you start
Have one link ready.
Your LinkedIn profile URL
Sonar imports your public posts from it to learn your voice, reads your headline and background, and finds people worth watching. If X is where you build, connect X instead and LinkedIn becomes optional.
Your website, if you have one
Optional. Sonar reads it to draft your brief: what you do, who it is for, what makes you different. Sign-up asks no form for it; you check what Sonar read later, from Getting started.
About three minutes
The reads run in the background while you answer. No card is asked for during setup, and the plan question only comes inside the app when your free days end.
The screens
Two steps, a build, and your first posts.
Onboarding is short on purpose: Sonar reads your site and your posts while you answer two questions. Here is every screen and what it asks.
- 01
Sign in
Go to app.meetsonar.co and choose Sign up. Continue with LinkedIn, with X, or with an email address and a password.
- 02
Say where you build your audience
LinkedIn, X or both. The choice shapes every screen after it: your voice is learned from that platform's posts, and with both, one idea becomes a LinkedIn post and a native X thread.
Choosing X or both connects your X account on this screen, since your posts are imported and published through it.
- 03
Give Sonar your name and your LinkedIn
Your name, your role (optional; your headline fills it in anyway), your LinkedIn profile URL and, if you like, your website. Continue, and the import, the website read and the watchlist discovery start in the background.
- 04
Say what you want your posts to get you
Customers for your company, clients for your own practice, your next role, being known as an expert, visibility where you work, or an audience of your own. Sonar picks its best read from your profile; one tap changes it.
It decides which questions and rules apply to you. Beside it, your first post idea writes itself from what Sonar read.
- 05
Set your voice, if you have few posts
With fewer than five posts to learn from, five quick either/or rounds and a few pills set how you sound, so your first posts sound like you. With more, Sonar learns from your posts and this screen is skipped.
- 06
Watch the Pack build
Sonar reads your brief, distills your offer and audience, maps your differentiation, learns your voice from your posts, studies your competitive landscape, composes your Intelligence Pack and drafts your first five posts. A minute or two, staged on screen.
- 07
Keep or skip five posts
Five posts, one at a time, in a LinkedIn or X mockup. Swipe right or tap Keep and the post lands in your drafts, under Content, for you to finish and schedule. Skip one and Sonar asks what was off: pick a reason or say it in a line, and it becomes a standing rule for that platform.
Edit this draft is under the deck if a card is close. Every card has to be decided before the door opens.
- 08
Read what Sonar learned, then enter
Your Intelligence Pack is ready: the dimensions it holds, and a note that anything off is a quick fix in Settings, Intelligence. Enter Sonar lands you on Home.
Day one
Sonar hands you a checklist.
Your first Home is the greeting, your numbers, today's idea and the posts Sonar has ready. The setup checklist, Getting started, sits in the sidebar: five rows check what Sonar read about you at sign-up, three connect your accounts. Each ticks itself when it is done, and the list leaves once all eight are.
About you
What you do, who it is for, what you are known for and your proof, as Sonar read them from your site and profile. Fix anything off, and mark the numbers that are true: only those are ever written.
Your voice
Your measured rhythm, the pills that say how you want to sound, and one of this morning's posts, written in that voice.
Your themes
The handful of things every post comes back to, plus a few off-the-clock interests. Your niche and the Library search on these.
Who you reach
The readers your posts are written for and the moments that make someone need you.
People you watch
The people in your space Sonar keeps reading, so you see what lands for them and how you compare. Keep the useful ones, remove the rest.
Connect LinkedIn or X to post
Connect the platform you post on and a scheduled post goes out at its time. Until then, a scheduled post waits for you to copy it.
Connect your week
The sources that turn your real work into posts: Google Calendar, Google Meet, Slack, Granola, Fireflies, Wispr Flow, Notion and Zoom. Read-only, one switch each, in Settings, Connections.
Pair Sonar for LinkedIn
The Chrome extension reads your own LinkedIn numbers in your own browser, so your reach is the number LinkedIn shows you.
Your free days start here too. You get 7 days free with no card, starting the moment onboarding finishes, with every feature on. The plan question only appears when the 7 days end, and if you subscribe before then, your first charge is on the day they end. If you were given a code, redeem it in Settings, Plan. The pricing, in full.
FAQ
Questions about setup.
Three minutes, and your first drafts are waiting.
Already in? The next step is a source: Google Calendar is the lightest, and every guide is on Docs.