> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.alignr.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Take a visual tour

> See the real setup wizard, client checks, assistant and report screens before you start.

Use this tour to recognise the screens in the step-by-step guides. These are captures of Alignr running locally on 26 September 2026 with seeded demonstration data. The examples show an environment that still needs configuration and assessment; they are not live customer results.

## The short screen tour

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This silent, 18-second tour moves between four screenshots; it does not demonstrate completed authorisation or an AI response. The sections below provide the same information in text and full-size images.

<Accordion title="Screen tour text transcript">
  * **0–5 seconds:** Microsoft setup. Prepare partner access, then choose the workspace connection method and account.
  * **5–9 seconds:** Tool setup. Choose Datto RMM, Autotask or HaloPSA; RMM and PSA are different sources.
  * **9–13 seconds:** Standards. Build a guided baseline or import a checklist, then review it before activation.
  * **13–18 seconds:** Ask Alignr. Check the client and page scope before sending a question.
</Accordion>

## 1. Choose your Microsoft access path

<Frame caption="The setup wizard: Microsoft partner access. This local demo has no shared Microsoft application configured.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/setup-partner.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=9aca387ad43917e8581e5d41e45297f4" alt="Alignr setup wizard showing four steps, partner access guidance, the default connection method and partner account selector." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/setup-partner.png" />
</Frame>

* **Left:** choose a setup step. You can return to unfinished steps.
* **Centre:** prepare partner access, then select the workspace's default connection method and account.
* **Top right:** **Finish later** returns to the app; it does not establish that setup is complete.

For a client outside Partner Center, use a Direct connection. Follow the [Microsoft setup walkthrough](/integrations/microsoft-setup) for prerequisites, permissions and verification, or [the wizard guide](/guides/setup-wizard) for all four steps.

## 2. Connect your tools and choose expectations

<Tabs sync={false}>
  <Tab title="Connect tools">
    <Frame caption="The connection step offers supported starting points; Datto RMM is explicitly separate from a PSA.">
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/setup-psa.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=cfea81607205723f2e2220819a79c9af" alt="Connect your PSA step with Datto RMM, Datto Autotask and HaloPSA connection choices." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/setup-psa.png" />
    </Frame>

    Select the intended product and follow its prerequisites. Saving credentials, mapping source clients and collecting evidence are separate checkpoints. Browse the [integration catalogue](/guides/integration-catalogue) for the broader choice of tools.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Choose standards">
    <Frame caption="Standard setup gives you a route into defining what good looks like.">
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/setup-standards.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=33e3dfb12eab97dc4b3b957c173ce0ac" alt="The standard setup step in the Alignr wizard, with its available baseline starting choices." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/setup-standards.png" />
    </Frame>

    Review the contents and scope before enabling a standard. A global standard is not isolated to a pilot client merely because you run checks for that client. See [Build or import a standard](/guides/build-or-import-standard).
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## 3. Read the client's checks

<Frame caption="Northwind Dental is seeded demo data. These controls need evidence and have never run; the screen is not showing passing assessments.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/client-checks.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=a31bd9f2567683fb874fd120512a2000" alt="A demo client's Checks tab showing automated and manual check choices, coverage information, filters and controls needing evidence." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/client-checks.png" />
</Frame>

Start with the client name, then read the status, evidence and last-checked information together. Open a check to investigate it. **Needs evidence** is an instruction to investigate the evidence path, not a lower-severity pass.

Follow [Your first assessment](/journeys/first-assessment) to move from this screen to a result you can explain. Use [troubleshooting](/guides/troubleshooting) when collection or evaluation is incomplete.

## 4. Ask for help in context

<Frame caption="Ask Alignr is beside the app. The scope chips show All clients and Overview in this example.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/ask-alignr.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=988112e74e9506d87b8c5891976001ce" alt="Ask Alignr panel open beside Overview, with client and page scope chips, suggested prompts and a message composer." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/ask-alignr.png" />
</Frame>

Check the scope chips before sending a question. Choose a suggestion or describe the result you need explained. A configuration proposal must be reviewed before applying; this screenshot shows the starting panel, not a generated answer or saved change.

[Use the AI assistant](/guides/ask-alignr) includes prompt examples and the supported draft operations.

## 5. Prepare the client discussion

<Frame caption="Open a client's More menu, then Review reports. Preparing a review creates a fixed snapshot.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alignr/xKnddWszcLUf64Gy/images/walkthroughs/client-reports.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xKnddWszcLUf64Gy&q=85&s=8a745bab7b2cab8a9b7207f22e2d327e" alt="Client reports screen with a report-name field and Prepare review action for a demo client." width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/walkthroughs/client-reports.png" />
</Frame>

Inspect the client's evidence and outstanding work before preparing a report. Check the saved output before sharing it. Later assessments do not rewrite an earlier snapshot.

Continue with [Prepare a client report](/guides/client-reports) and [Run a client meeting](/journeys/client-meeting).
