Welcome Overlay

The Welcome Overlay is the one-screen orientation a new brand owner sees the first time they enter Brand Atlas. It introduces the eight standard sections, the request channel, and the three places most people start. The overlay appears once per brand owner and can be reopened later from Settings.

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What the overlay covers

The overlay runs in three short panels:

1. What Brand Atlas is. A one-sentence definition, the eight standard sections, and the role of Horizons. Roughly twenty seconds of reading.
2. What you do here. The two main loops: populating the atlas, and handling Update Requests. A line on each.
3. Where to start. Three buttons: Populate Logo & Identity, Invite a team member, Tour the portal. Pick one to leave the overlay and start.

The overlay is designed to be readable in under a minute. It is not a tutorial; the Quickstart and the docs are the tutorial.

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Skipping it

Click Skip in the top-right of the overlay to dismiss it. You go straight to the empty atlas. Skipping does not affect the atlas in any way.

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Reopening it

A brand owner who skipped the overlay and wants to see it can reopen it from Settings → Account → Show Welcome Overlay. The overlay reappears on the next portal load.

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What team members see instead

Team members do not see the brand owner’s Welcome Overlay. The first time a team member enters the atlas, they see a shorter team-side overlay covering:

• How to read a section.
• How search works.
• How to raise an Update Request (on Keeper and Guardian).
• Where to find the glossary.

The team-side overlay also has a Skip button and is reopenable from the team member’s own account settings.

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Why the overlay exists

Onboarding to a brand atlas is unusual work. Most people have never used a portal of this shape; the closest mental model is a wiki or an internal docs site. The overlay is the smallest possible amount of orientation that prevents the most common first-time confusion: opening the portal, seeing a sidebar of empty sections, and not knowing where to start. The overlay does not try to teach the product. It tries to remove the question “what am I supposed to do here?” so the brand owner can answer it themselves.

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