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

# Get started

> Sign up with your email, get your first workspace and create your first governed link from the assistant.

A governed short link is a short link whose UTM values passed your workspace's rules. This page takes you from nothing to your first one. No code involved.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Sign up with your email">
    Open [app.utmkit.co/users/register](https://app.utmkit.co/users/register) and type your email. There is no password to invent: UTMKit emails you a link, and opening it confirms the account and logs you in. Choose **Confirm and stay logged in** on your own computer.

    Coming back works the same way: **Log in with email** sends a fresh link, and the button on that one reads **Keep me logged in on this device**. You can set a password later in your account settings, and if your company's domain uses single sign-on, the login page offers the provider's button as well.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Meet your first workspace">
    Signing up created a workspace for you, named after your email address, and an organization around it. You are its owner, and nothing needs configuring before you make a link.

    A workspace is where links, campaigns, rules and reports live; an organization holds the subscription and, if you serve several clients, several workspaces. Owners create more on the **Workspaces** page ([app.utmkit.co/workspaces](https://app.utmkit.co/workspaces)): name it, and you land inside the new, empty workspace. How many you may have is your plan's allowance, on the [plans page](https://app.utmkit.co/billing/plans). See [Workspaces & organizations](/en/workspaces).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Ask for your first link">
    New links are created from the chat at [app.utmkit.co/chat](https://app.utmkit.co/chat), where you land after logging in. Say what you want in your own words, for example: *Shorten [https://example.com/spring-sale](https://example.com/spring-sale) with utm\_source=newsletter and utm\_medium=email*.

    The assistant creates the link and shows a card with the short address, a **Copy** button and a **QR** button. It fills in only the UTM parameters you named and never invents the others. Mention a campaign and the link is grouped under it; if no campaign by that name exists, the assistant says so and creates it when you ask. Every link then appears on the **Links** page, where you search, filter and edit it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Understand a refusal">
    A new workspace starts with a default convention: lowercase values, words joined by hyphens, breaches blocked rather than warned about. So *utm\_source=Newsletter* is refused, and the message says which format was expected. Once you approve values for a parameter, only those pass, and the refusal names them. A mandatory parameter left out is refused. A dependency rule ("when `utm_source` is google, `utm_medium` must be cpc or organic") refuses the pairings you did not allow.

    The rules are yours to set, in the chat or on the **Rules** page. Start with [The convention](/en/rules/the-convention) and [Approved values](/en/rules/approved-values).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Two links with the same destination and the same five UTM values would split one campaign's clicks across two short codes, so the second is refused and the existing link is named instead. The rule applies only to links carrying at least one UTM parameter.
</Note>

Next: [The assistant](/en/get-started/the-assistant) explains what the chat can do, and [Concepts](/en/get-started/concepts) defines the words these guides use.