Abhord Quickstart Guide (2026 Refresh)

This practical guide gets you from zero to insights in under an hour. It reflects product updates through January 2026, including the new Quickstart wizard, expanded LLM connectors, sentiment v2 (aspect-aware), quality-weighted Share of Voice, improved cost controls, and scheduled competitor tracking.

1) Initial setup and configuration

1) Create a workspace

• Invite your team and assign roles: Admin (settings/billing), Analyst (projects/reports), Viewer (read-only).
• Enable SSO and 2FA in Settings > Security if your org requires it.

2) Connect models and set cost guardrails

• Go to Integrations > LLM Connectors and add keys for the models you’ll survey (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, Llama-hosted).
• Set per-connector rate limits and monthly spend caps. Turn on “Cost Estimator” to preview run costs before launch.
• New since last edition: Unified quotas let you cap spend at the workspace, project, and survey level.

3) Configure projects, entities, and keywords

• Create a Project for each product line or market.
• Add Entities for you and competitors, listing common variants and misspellings (e.g., “AcmePay,” “Acme Pay,” “APay”).
• Seed Keywords and Intents (pricing