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A studio made a minute ago is empty, and an empty workspace does not explain itself. The newcomer flow is what fills it: paste two or three links to products you are considering, and Atelier builds a board from them. It exists to show the loop the rest of the product is built around — pin it, approve it, it is in the schedule — before anyone has had to learn where anything lives. It appears on Home, once for each person, and only while the studio has yet to produce a schedule line — so it is normally the first day, but a colleague joining an empty studio months later meets it too. You can leave at any point, and you can come back.

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What you see first

The screen says Your workspace is ready, greets you by name, and gives you one thing to do: a box reading Paste your product links and I’ll build the board. Beneath it is a single alternative — No links to hand? Start with three products I picked — for anyone who wants to see the flow without going to find URLs first. There is deliberately no third option. Two buttons that do the same thing make a choice out of what should be a start. Any product page from a vendor’s site will do, pasted as plain addresses. Up to six links are read at a time; past that the extra ones are ignored and you are told so, rather than left to wonder why a board came back short. Atelier reads each page and tells you how many it is working through. What it takes from them is the product and its specification — the same import that bringing a product in from a URL uses, so the board is built out of real records rather than pictures. A page it cannot read a product from is named and left off the board. The answer to that is another link, so the box stays where it is.

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Name the project

While the board builds, the flow asks what to call the project. A brand-new studio is offered Sample Project; a studio that already has projects of its own is offered New project instead.

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Approve a pin

When the board is ready the flow points you at it and stops. The last step happens on the board itself, not in the conversation, because that is where it will happen every time afterwards:
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Open the board

See it on the board takes you there.
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Double-click a product

The pin opens. This is the part people miss — the flow says it out loud for that reason.
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Approve it

The pin becomes a line in the schedule, carrying its price and specification with it.
That is the whole loop, and the flow says so when it sees the first line appear. Everything else in Atelier hangs off it: a schedule line is what becomes a purchase order, an invoice line, a budget figure.

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Leaving, and coming back

Closing the flow says not now, not never. In its place a Get started card appears on Home, with the same way in. If you had already built a board, it reads Pick up where you left off and takes you back to it. The card carries its own ✕. That one is final — it is recorded against your membership rather than the browser, so it holds on every device and does not return on the next visit.
The flow and the card are per person, not per studio. A colleague joining later gets their own introduction, whatever you did with yours.

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When it stops appearing

Both the flow and the card go away on their own once the studio has produced its first schedule line — no dismissing required. Work is the signal; having been shown the introduction is not. Lines on the seeded example project do not count. Looking at the example is not work, and Atelier does not treat it as such.
Nothing the flow makes is special. The project, the board and the schedule line are ordinary records — rename them, add to them or delete them exactly as you would any others.