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Adding your first site

From the onboarding wizard

During onboarding (Step 4), you can add sites by entering their URLs. Flowpane normalises the URL, adds the HTTPS protocol if missing, and queues the site for verification.

From the workspace dashboard

After onboarding, add sites from your workspace:

  1. Navigate to your workspace
  2. Click + Add site in the sites section
  3. Enter the full URL of the site (e.g. https://example.com)
  4. Click Add

The site enters a pending state while Flowpane checks that it's publicly accessible.

What happens during verification

Flowpane makes a request to the site's homepage to confirm:

  • The URL resolves to a valid server
  • The server returns an HTTP 200 response
  • The site is publicly accessible (not behind authentication)

Once verified, the site transitions to active and initial governance checks run automatically.

Site metadata confirmation

The first time you open a site's detail page, a confirmation modal appears with auto-detected information:

  • Site name — extracted from the page's <title> tag or og:site_name meta tag
  • Platform — detected from response headers and HTML patterns (WordPress, Shopify, Joomla, etc.)
  • Audience — guessed from the domain TLD (e.g. .co.uk suggests United Kingdom)
  • Industry — you'll need to select this manually
  • Tags — optional free-text labels for organising your sites

Review the auto-detected fields, correct anything that's wrong, fill in the industry, and click Confirm. This modal only appears once per site.

Tip

Platform detection influences the recommendations Flowpane gives you. If it detects the wrong platform, correct it here for more relevant guidance.

Adding multiple sites

See Batch import for adding many sites at once.