# Find your way around the dashboard

> What each part of the menu does, and what the cards on your dashboard tell you.

Source: https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/dashboard  
Plans: Essentials, Creator, Business, Academy  
Last checked: 2026-10-26

Your dashboard is where you build and manage your Chirps. It opens when you log in, and you can
always get back to it with **Dashboard** at the top of the menu.

![The dashboard for Maya Brooks: the menu on the left, then the cards Your plan, AI account, Messages this month, AI cost this month and Chirps.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/start-here/dashboard/SS-START-010-01__dashboard__essentials__desktop__v01.webp?v=dcdfb1e054)

## The menu (1)

The menu on the left is on every dashboard page:

- **Dashboard:** this overview.
- **Chirps:** create, edit, organize and share your Chirps.
- **Collections:** pages that show several Chirps together (Creator, Business and Academy plans).
- **Templates:** ready-made Chirps to start from. The first templates are on their way.
- **Import:** move your Custom GPTs with Claude or ChatGPT, or upload a Chirp package.
- **Analytics:** conversations, messages, visitors and what your Chirps cost on OpenRouter.
- **Leads:** the names and emails your lead forms collect.
- **Billing:** your Chirp Builder plan.
- **Settings:** your profile and OpenRouter key, plus workspaces, custom domains, email services and
  the AI apps you've connected.
- **Help:** these guides, and a way to ask us when you're stuck.

If you have more than one workspace, **Workspace** at the top of the menu shows which one you're
working in. Your name and **Log out** are at the bottom. If someone shared their workspace with you,
you see only the parts your role allows.

## The cards

The cards cover the workspace you're working in.

- **Your plan:** your Chirp Builder plan and whether it's active.
- **AI account (2):** whether your OpenRouter key is connected, the last four characters of the key,
  and about how much credit is left at OpenRouter. Your Chirps answer only while this says
  **Connected** and there's credit.
- **Messages this month:** messages your Chirps answered for visitors. **See usage** opens Analytics.
- **AI cost this month (3):** about what your Chirps cost on your OpenRouter account this month, your
  own test chats included. See [See what your Chirps cost](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/openrouter/costs).
- **Chirps:** how many Chirps you have, not counting archived ones. Below the number: how many are live
  (published as Unlisted or Public), how many are drafts, and, if you have any, how many are archived.

Below the cards, **Your Chirps** shows your latest Chirps, with **See all** and **Create Chirp**.

## When something needs you

A banner at the top of the dashboard tells you when your Chirps can't answer, with a button that takes
you to the fix:

![The dashboard with a banner: "Connect your OpenRouter key so your Chirps can answer" and a Connect key button.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/start-here/dashboard/SS-START-010-02__no-key-banner__essentials__desktop__v01.webp?v=d94821226a)

- **Connect your OpenRouter key so your Chirps can answer.** Click **Connect key**, then follow
  [Connect your OpenRouter key](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/openrouter/connect-key).
- **Your OpenRouter key isn't working, so your Chirps can't answer**, or **Your OpenRouter account is
  out of credit, so your Chirps can't answer.** Click **Fix it** to go to the key in Settings.
- **One of your Chirps uses an AI model that OpenRouter no longer offers.** Click **See Chirps** and
  choose another model for it: see [Choose your Chirp's AI model](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/openrouter/choose-a-model).
- **This workspace isn't included in your current plan, so its Chirps don't answer visitors.** Move its
  Chirps to another workspace, or change your plan.