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

# Guides

> End-to-end walkthroughs for the workflows Surnex is built around.

The product pages document what each screen does. These guides string those screens together into the jobs you actually came to do.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Set up your first project" icon="rocket" href="/guides/first-project">
    From signup to your first ranking data, with the decisions that matter explained.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build a keyword tracking set" icon="key" href="/guides/track-keywords">
    Research, shortlist, and track the keywords worth paying for daily.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fix technical SEO issues" icon="wrench" href="/guides/fix-audit-issues">
    Crawl, triage by severity, fix, and verify.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Improve AI search visibility" icon="robot" href="/guides/ai-visibility">
    Measure where AI answers are displacing you, and do something about it.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deliver a monthly SEO report" icon="file-lines" href="/guides/monthly-report">
    Build once, then repeat it every month in minutes.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Read this first

Two things about how Surnex works explain most early confusion.

**Almost nothing is fetched when you open a page.** Rankings, backlinks, audits, and AI visibility are collected by background jobs and read back from storage. A figure that looks stale usually is — because the job that refreshes it hasn't run yet, or doesn't run on a schedule at all. Only [Trends](/trends/explore) and [Trending now](/trends/trending) are live.

**Only four things refresh themselves.** Rank tracking, backlinks, GEO, and local SEO run on schedules you control. [Audits](/audits/overview), [web vitals](/web-vitals/overview), [domain data](/domains/overview), and [keyword research](/keywords/research) run once at project creation and then only when you ask.

That second point is the one that catches people out. An audit score months out of date usually means nobody has run a crawl since the project was created.

Full detail: [How data collection works](/projects/data-collection).

## Where to start

New to Surnex — [Set up your first project](/guides/first-project).

Project already running and wondering what to do next — [Fix technical SEO issues](/guides/fix-audit-issues) gives you the most actionable list on day one.

Need to show a client something — [Deliver a monthly SEO report](/guides/monthly-report).