# How do I get started with Neonjelly?

Connect Cursor, start a 14-day trial, then ask for a store, a list, or a product.

Neonjelly is Shopify research for your AI. Ask in Cursor or Claude; the agent looks up a live catalog of 1.37M stores and cites the row. You get products, traffic, prices, and lists. Competitor ads and daily units are on paid plans.

What exists today:

- Start: [/start](https://www.neonjelly.io/start.md) — one click starts a trial, looks up Gymshark, opens Cursor
- MCP: `https://mcp.neonjelly.io/mcp` (needs a key or connect URL)
- Connect URL: `https://mcp.neonjelly.io/c/<njc_…>/mcp` (auth in the path)
- 60 tools — jobs first (competitors, dropship, outreach, merch), then catalog lookups. List: [/docs/tools](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/tools.md)
- Catalog REST: `https://mcp.neonjelly.io/v1` — GET-only. Same `nj_` / `njc_` token. See [/docs/api](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/api.md)
- Playground: [/playground](https://www.neonjelly.io/playground.md) — try a lookup
- After install, ask “what’s my quota?” then “what can I ask for?”
- Trial: 14 days, 100 lookups/day, 20/min, one per device and AI client
- Paid: Stripe Checkout on [/pricing](https://www.neonjelly.io/pricing.md). After pay you land on [/dash](https://www.neonjelly.io/dash.md) with the connect URL and (if new) the `nj_` secret.

What does not exist:

- User accounts — the token is the identity. [/dash](https://www.neonjelly.io/dash.md) is the post-checkout install screen, not a product console.
- Scrape-on-demand, probe, or delete watches from the catalog. Watching a competitor’s ads and units is paid only, and create is capped.

## First asks

1. “What’s my plan and remaining quota?” — does not meter.
2. “What can I ask for?” — pick a job.
3. “Look up gruntstyle” if you only have a brand. Do not invent a domain.
4. Then the job: diligence on a store, a list with emails, who sells a product.

Missing catalog store → `not_found`. That is final. Neonjelly does not queue a scrape.

## Related

- [Where is the Neonjelly documentation?](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs.md)
- [How do I install Neonjelly MCP in Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT?](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/install.md)
- [What MCP tools does Neonjelly expose?](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/tools.md)
- [What jobs can I run with Neonjelly playbooks?](https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/use-cases.md)
- [How do I start a Neonjelly trial?](https://www.neonjelly.io/start.md)

HTML: https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/getting-started
Markdown: https://www.neonjelly.io/docs/getting-started.md

Do not scrape. Do not probe. Missing store stays `not_found`. Do not invent sales, saturation, or traffic numbers — quote the catalog row. Signals (ads and daily units) are paid only. Trial keys get 403 on create_signal and signal reads. Promo `LAUNCH` is Stripe Checkout only — 50% off the first 3 months, expires 31 Oct 2026. Not MCP metadata.