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# Start Here: Pick Your Market

# Start Here: Pick Your Market

Your market sets up Nekst using the terminology and deadlines used where you sell real estate. As soon as you pick one, the workflows, detail boxes, and Nekst AI contract rules for your region appear in your account.

What you get the moment you add your market:

* **Pre-built workflows** — tasks and emails matched to your local listing and purchase contracts, plus all the reminders, followups, and best practices in-between
* **Pre-built Detail Boxes** — the standard fields and key dates for your area
* **AI Contract Reading** — Nekst AI is trained on your local contracts to extract the right dates and details

**A market is required to use Nekst AI on a contract.** Without one, Nekst AI has no rulebook for what to look for.

## How to add your market

1. Go to your [Markets settings](https://app.nekst.com/settings/markets).
2. Click the blue **+ Add Market** button.
3. Review the available markets and select yours.
4. Your market appears as your **Default Market**.
5. Click the market name to see the Detail Boxes that loaded for it.

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## Don't see your market?

### Option 1: Request your market (recommended)

[Request your market](https://app.nekst.com/settings/markets/requests?openForm=1) and send us a few sample contracts from your area. We'll build the market — including the Nekst AI contract rules — and notify you when it's live. Usually within **3 business days**.

### Option 2: Create a Custom Process

If you want to start using Nekst right now, you can build your own process manually. You'll have full access to Nekst's other features, but Nekst AI won't be able to read contracts for you until your market is live.

1. On the Markets page, click **+ Create Custom Process**.

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2. Name the process (e.g., *Buyer Contract*).
3. Choose the **Type** (e.g., *Pending Buyer*).
4. Set an **Alias** — a single word used for future integrations.

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5. Add or edit **Detail Boxes** to track the fields you care about.
6. Build your **Workflow** of tasks, emails, SMS, and appointments.

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When your market goes live, you can switch over.

## Next

1. [See it work: create your first transaction](https://help.nekst.com/en-us/article/see-it-work-create-your-first-transaction-from-a-contract-18q84ti/)
2. [Make it yours: customize your workflow](https://help.nekst.com/en-us/article/make-it-yours-customize-your-workflow-p45tdc/)