Onboarding
The first-run setup teaches Promoat your language, your audience, and your face — then it walks you through generating your very first video before handing you the app.
You'll need: the app installed, an email address
Onboarding is a 12-step activation flow. The first three steps capture the inputs Promoat needs forever (language, audience, face). The remaining nine walk you through generating your first video end-to-end — topic, scene, script, recording, image, paywall, then a final confirmation. This article covers the three setup steps; everything after Step 4 mirrors the regular
Create a video idea flow.
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Nothing here is permanent
Audience, language, and portraits are all editable later from Profile / Settings. Pick what feels closest and move on — onboarding is designed to get you to your first generated video, not to be perfect.
Step 1: Pick a language
The first screen asks for the language your videos will be in. This sets the language for scripts, captions, and the voice clone — not the UI language. You can change it later from Settings.
Step 2: Who's your audience?
The audience step is the foundation. Promoat reads this string every time it writes a script, picks a hook, chooses examples, or sets caption tone. The more specific you are, the better.
Who's your
audience?
Be specific — the AI uses this to decide tone and examples.
Your audience
Brides-to-be in NYC planning their wedding
Heading: 'Who's your audience?' Bare-line input + suggestion chips below. Continue is disabled until you have something typed.
What you see
Heading — "Who's your audience?"
Input — bare typographic line (no card, hairline underline that lights up on focus). Placeholder: "Gym goers, parents, founders…"
Suggestion chips — a row of preset audience labels (e.g. Founders, Realtors, Doctors, SaaS, Ecom). Tap one to fill the input; the chip shows as active. Tap a different chip — or edit the input — to override.
Continue — disabled until the input has content.
Specific wins
Good: "Brides-to-be in NYC planning their wedding in the next year."
Good: "Small Shopify store owners selling handmade home decor."
Too vague: "Women" or "Small business owners."
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What happens behind the scenes
When you tap Continue, Promoat fires a trend prefetch (so the topic step later has trending suggestions ready) and resolves a scene-copy profile for your audience — that's what populates the placeholders and chips you'll see in the Scene step.
Tap a suggestion chip — or type your own audience
Step 3: Your face (portrait photos)
Promoat's talking-head shots are generated from your photos. This step captures up to 3 portrait images, one tap at a time. The photos build a synthetic likeness Promoat reuses on every video — a still face animated to match your script, not a free-roaming deepfake.
Upload photos
of yourself
We'll use these to create your video avatar
2/3 added · 1 more optional
I confirm I have the right to use these photos
Heading: 'Your face.' Subtitle: 'Close-up. Good lighting.' Three square slots, the next-to-fill slot has the cool-gradient border.
What you see
Heading — "Your face." Subtitle: "Close-up. Good lighting."
Three square slots — only the next-to-fill slot has the brand cool-gradient border. The rest are hairline ghosts until their turn.
Consent checkbox at the bottom: "I confirm I have the right to use these photos". Required to continue.
Continue — enabled once you have at least one photo and the consent checkbox is on.
What makes a good portrait
Front-facing. Look straight at the camera.
Good lighting. Daylight or bright indoor light.
Just you. No other people, sunglasses, or hats covering your face.
Variety helps. One straight-on, one at a slight angle, one with a different expression — gives the cloner more to work with than three near-identical takes.
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Portraits only — not lifestyle photos
This step is portrait-specific. Background scenes, product shots, or body-shots go in
Reference images
on each video's Scene step (see
Create a video idea), not here. Use a portrait — head and shoulders, face clearly visible.
Tap the gradient slot to pick or take a photo
Repeat for up to 3 photos
Tap a filled slot's × to remove it if needed
Step 4: Best setup screen
A short motivational screen titled "The best app for {your audience}" — Promoat reflects your audience back at you. There's nothing to configure; tap continue to move on. This is the bridge between setup and your first idea.
Steps 5–12: Your first video, guided
The remaining onboarding steps are the standard create-a-video flow, run for the first time:
Step 5 — Topic. Type or pick a trending topic. Same UI as Step 1 of the in-app
Create a video idea wizard.
Step 6 — Scene. Describe your first video's scene and (optionally) add reference images and cut-ins. Same scene composer as the in-app wizard.
Step 7 — Script generation. A loading screen while Promoat writes the first script.
Step 8 — Pick a script. Choose from generated options or edit one.
Step 10 — Pick an image. Choose your favorite of the AI-generated talking-head images for this video.
Step 11 — Paywall. Pick a plan to render and post. Free / trial users hit this gate; paid users skip it.
Step 12 — Congratulations. Final confirmation screen — taps "Done" and your first video starts post-production. Promoat then drops you into the Watch tab.
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You can always come back
After onboarding, all of these inputs (audience, portraits, language) are editable from Profile / Settings. The first video you generated lives in your
Watch
tab like every other generation.
What's next
Once onboarding finishes, every new video uses the same three-step wizard you saw in steps 5–6 plus 8–10:
Create a video idea.