Four steps, and you end with work you can use rather than a tour you have to remember.
First, the setup, and whether you can skip it
Setup runs once, the first time you sign in, and it cannot be skipped. Every page in the app waits behind it and the dialog has no close button. It takes a few minutes, and it does most of steps 1 and 2 below for you.
It asks two screens of questions about you and what you want from Vamos, then where you post: paste your Instagram, TikTok or YouTube profile link or @handle. A website is optional and is not enough on its own.
If you do not post anywhere yet, or your account is private and cannot be read, choose I don't post anywhere yet. Then one sentence about what you do, and where you plan to post, is all that is needed. You can also name up to ten competitors to track.
Vamos reads what it can, shows you what it wrote for My Brand so you can correct it, follows up to six creators in your niche that it picks, and ends by starting your first task. Individual questions can be left alone, but the flow as a whole has to be finished.
You can leave halfway and come back later. You pick up where you stopped.
Running several brands does not change this. Each brand is its own workspace with its own setup, so set the first one up now and add the others when you want them.
1. Add your own handle
My Brand, then Profile, then Your socials & website. Search for your handle or paste your profile URL.
This is not a login. Vamos reads what is public on that profile, which gives it your baseline: how many views you normally get, so it can tell a good post of yours from an ordinary one. It also gives it real samples of how you write.
If your account is private, skip this. Nothing can be read from a private profile.
2. Add a few creators worth watching
Creators, then search by topic or account, then Follow.
Setup has already followed up to six for you, so add the competitors you know. The weekly brief needs at least five. Ten or more makes a real difference to what the weekly brief finds, but you do not need them today.
Vamos starts scanning as soon as you add them. It takes a minute or two, then their recent videos and numbers appear in Creators.
3. Ask for something real
Open a chat and give it an actual job rather than a test question. Something like:
"Break down @competitor's best videos from the last 90 days. Tell me which ones beat their own average and what made them work."
Watch what happens above the answer. Vamos will tell you when it is reading a profile, watching a video, or pulling comments, so you can see where the answer came from rather than taking it on trust.
Then ask for the next step in the same chat: turn the strongest of those into a script for me. Staying in the chat is better, because Vamos still has everything it read.
4. Fill in the rest of My Brand
My Brand shows how complete your profile is. There is a Refine with Vamos button that has Vamos interview you for the gaps, which is faster than typing into boxes.
The part worth doing properly is your voice. Add a few things you have written or posted, and Vamos derives your voice from them. The Full voice report on the Voice tab shows what it learned and which sections are still empty.
Then leave it running
Your weekly brief is already on. It goes live once your own account is added and you follow five creators, then arrives once a week (Monday morning unless you change it) when there is enough new to read. It is free, and it gets better the more you have set up.
If you want something else on a schedule, Routines takes any prompt and a cadence.