About 3 minutes for the profile wizard (19 steps), once. Not a quiz trick: everything you enter calibrates your coach for powerful models. Clipboard: three taps per day in the AI menu. API: in-app chat, report button, no pasting.
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Choose language
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Dutch, English and 12 more languages. Menus, prompts and reports follow your choice. Then optionally the welcome video, the same clip as above.
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Set profile & goals
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Wizard steps 1 to 13: gender, age, weight, height, main goal (cut, maintain or bulk), pace and focus, optional target weight and name. Then activity, smartwatch, longevity mode and water intake.
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Set up your coach
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Coach style: choose how your AI coach speaks, Standard, Motivator, Athlete or Vitality.
AI coach: pick ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or DeepSeek. In API mode you choose ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini; copy and paste works with all five. With None only clipboard remains; in-app API stays off. Custom HTTPS later in Settings (API = endpoint + key, not the clipboard Open via field).
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How do you talk to the coach?
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Its own screen, one question. Clipboard (preselected): three steps in the AI menu, start → paste in your chat → fetch + import. The app does not call the coach. Open via only on this path, and only if you picked a coach (not None).
In the app (API): chat in PastePlate, meals go straight into the log, report button. Your key, straight to the provider you choose. Add the key later in Settings → My AI coach, before the first chat. The key is not in the backup. Open via is skipped. The summary names your choice: Conversation: Clipboard or In the app (API).
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Learn the daily workflow
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Optional, right after saving. Clipboard: full walkthrough with 13 screens or a short summary of the AI menu. Both further down. API: five screens, no 13 clipboard shots. Those are under In the app (API).
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Start logging
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Clipboard: every calendar day three steps in the AI menu. Log the whole day in one chat. API: start opens the in-app chat for that day; add the key in Settings first.
Macro targets, body fat goals, meal question toggles and the Measurements tab live in Settings & Measurements after setup. Nothing is locked in forever. Wearing a watch? Turn on Health sync from the menu and your weight, sleep, workouts and burn fill themselves in.