# Agency quick-start

Go from a scoped milestone to a client-ready proof packet in one focused session.

Audience: Agency owners and project leads
Reading time: 8 min

## Choose one small, reviewable milestone

For your first Greenlit project, use a milestone that is already described in a signed or agreed scope and has a staging build ready for review.

The best first milestone has three to six outcomes that a client can understand. Avoid using an entire website launch as one milestone.

- Use a public HTTPS staging URL that your agency controls.
- Use a redacted, synthetic, or expressly non-confidential SOW section unless the analysis screen confirms a paid data mode.
- Choose one client decision-maker and agree on a review deadline.
- Keep contracts, formal signatures, accounting records, and payments in their existing systems.

## Explore the complete proof flow

1. **Open the walkthrough:** Launch the guided synthetic demo. It requires no account and demonstrates the complete workflow; account-backed project imports are not currently offered through the public site.
2. **Inspect the promise:** Start with the included synthetic SOW and see how exact source language stays attached to the milestone.
3. **Review every criterion:** Check each exact source quote and confirm the grounded outcomes that define what done means.
4. **Preview staging ownership:** See where an agency proves control of a public HTTPS staging origin before a retained verification run.
5. **Inspect the checks:** Review the supported typed checks and compare expected outcomes with the evidence captured from the sample build.
6. **Follow the failure and fix:** See Greenlit catch a hidden HTTP failure, then rerun the same frozen criteria against the corrected build.
7. **Prepare client review:** Preview the named-reviewer handoff, milestone value, evidence summary, and invoice disclosure.
8. **Understand secure sharing:** See how a recipient-bound review link and separate access code protect the client decision path.
9. **Record the decision:** Use the sample client view to approve or request changes and see how new scope stays separate from corrections.
10. **Finish the handoff:** Open the sample approval record and inspect the evidence, decision, and invoice-ready status that an agency would retain.

## What the walkthrough demonstrates

- An agency can trace every criterion to exact agreed source language.
- A browser check can expose a failure hidden behind a successful-looking page.
- The same frozen promise can be rerun after the build is corrected.
- A client can make a clear approve or request-changes decision.
- The resulting record can connect evidence, the client decision, and invoice readiness.

> **Evaluate the workflow with a narrow milestone**
> The clearest evaluation is one milestone where an agency would otherwise chase approval through email. The public walkthrough uses synthetic data so the workflow can be assessed without an account or client material.