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

# Start your first Book

> Choose the correct starting method for your pricing knowledge and understand how methods converge.

Choose the correct starting method for your pricing knowledge.

## Four starting methods

The first Book screen asks one question: **How would you like to start your pricing?** You choose from four equal-weight methods. No method is marked "recommended." Only the row you are completing takes orange emphasis.

| Starting method                       | Use when                                                      | What you provide                                      | What Kordless produces                                        |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Import existing pricing               | Pricing exists in files or pages                              | A file (CSV, XLSX, PDF, image), a URL, or pasted text | A structured draft extracted from your source                 |
| Explain how you quote                 | Knowledge is repeatable but informal                          | A typed or spoken account of current practice         | A structured draft from your explanation                      |
| Start from a supported starting point | A relevant supported starting structure exists for your trade | Service and structure selections                      | Seeded suggested rules for you to review and verify           |
| Help me design my pricing             | No price book exists yet                                      | Services, economics, boundaries, and decisions        | A composed first model with visible derivation for each value |

## Methods converge on the same Book

All four methods produce the same typed rules, provenance, calibration cases, and publication preview. You can:

* Start with one method and add another source later
* Switch methods before publishing without recreating the Book
* Combine imported pricing with an explanation
* Add a guided-setup model to an existing draft

The selector records your current preference but never locks the Book to one method.

## Import existing pricing

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose Import existing pricing">
    Select the "Import existing pricing" row on the start screen. An inline text field appears.

    You can also upload a file — the drop surface accepts CSV, XLSX, PDF, supported images, or text up to 25 MB.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add your pricing text or file">
    Paste a price list, a recent quote, a rate sheet — however your pricing is written today. Or drag a file onto the drop surface.

    The text placeholder reads: "Paste your price list, a recent quote, or a rate sheet — however it is written today."
  </Step>

  <Step title="Submit">
    Kordless provisions your first Book workspace, ingests the source, and schedules extraction. You land on the Book overview where the draft fills in.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The source is labeled "Pasted pricing" (or your file name). Provenance for extracted rules reads **From your file**.

## Explain how you quote

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose Explain how you quote">
    Select the "Explain how you quote" row. An inline text field appears.

    The placeholder reads: "Describe how you decide what to charge. What do you sell, and what changes the price?"
  </Step>

  <Step title="Write or speak your explanation">
    Type how you currently decide pricing. Mention what you sell, what factors change the price, what you charge for, and what you will not quote.

    There is no required format — write it the way you would tell a new employee.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Submit">
    Kordless provisions your first Book workspace, ingests the explanation as an interview source, and schedules extraction.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The source is labeled "How we quote." Provenance for extracted rules reads **You told us**.

## Start from a supported starting point

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose Start from a supported starting point">
    Selecting this method navigates to a dedicated picker page — it is not an inline box.

    The picker shows the services available for your trade and currency.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick your services">
    Select the services you offer. Kordless seeds them as clearly labeled **Suggested** rules for you to review, adjust, and verify.

    Nothing is authorized until you say so.
  </Step>
</Steps>

If no starting point is available for your trade and currency, the page tells you and directs you to import, explain, or design instead.

## Help me design my pricing

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose Help me design my pricing">
    Selecting this method navigates to a dedicated guided-setup page — it is not a chatbot.

    The guided interview asks the smallest set of consequential questions in ordered sections.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Answer the guided questions">
    Define what you sell, how you charge, what changes the price, and what you will not quote. Provide or explicitly assume cost, time, capacity, minimum-charge, and return constraints.

    Each answer writes durable draft state. Progress is resumable.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review the proposed model">
    Kordless composes your answers into a structured explanation and drafts a Book from it. Each calculated or suggested value shows its derivation on demand.

    The guided flow distinguishes:

    * **Calculated floor** — from your cost and capacity inputs
    * **Owner target** — the price you stated you want to charge
    * **Evidence-derived proposal** — from your stated assumptions
    * **Kordless suggestion** — clearly labeled, not authorized
  </Step>
</Steps>

Completing the guided flow is not evidence that the model is commercially correct. You must still verify every material rule.

## What remains unverified after starting

Regardless of the method, the draft contains unverified rules. Every suggested or extracted value carries a provenance label and remains unverified until you explicitly verify it through [Verify Statements](/product/book/verify).

## Next

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  <Card title="Review the draft" icon="file-text" href="/product/book/review-draft">
    Inspect the extracted or constructed Book draft and correct meaning.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/product/getting-started/quickstart">
    The full end-to-end flow from sign up to Test Book draft.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>