A week is enough to go from nothing to your first live decision, without skipping the parts that make live safe. The in-app setup wizard tracks all six steps and updates live as each one completes — this article is the same sequence with the reasoning attached.
Days 1–2: connect and read
- 1Connect Shopify — install the Magistry app or paste a read-only Admin token. The audit starts on its own: catalog classification, margin analysis, dead inventory, with zero write risk.
- 2Connect Google Ads via OAuth. Read access is all you grant; reporting lights up immediately.
- 3Import product costs — from Shopify cost-per-item or CSV. This is the step people skip and regret: without costs, everything downstream sees revenue instead of profit.
Days 3–4: calibrate and verify
- 1Let calibration run. It learns winner and loser thresholds from your own sales distribution — not industry averages, which are the wrong number for almost every specific store.
- 2Verify conversion tracking with a real test order. Place it, watch it land in the tracking view, confirm the value and attribution are right. A synthetic check can't tell you what one real order can.
Days 5–7: dry-run and first promotions
- 1Agents start in dry-run / approval-only mode — full decisions, zero execution until you promote. Read the rows daily. Each shows what would have happened and why.
- 2Promote decisions gradually: single rows first, then whole action types once their dry-run record is boring. Your first live decision should be one you've read the evidence for.
What done looks like
By day seven: store connected, ads reporting, costs imported, calibration anchored to your data, tracking verified with a real order, and at least one decision promoted to live by your own hand. The wizard shows all six green. Everything after this is widening the set of decisions you no longer need to read first.