> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surfais.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Running your first audit > The warm-up window, allowances per plan, and how to start an audit. Audits run from a **Run new audit** button on each brand's Audits page — but your very first one has a short warm-up window before it's available, and every plan includes a set allowance after that. ## The warm-up window An audit is only as good as the data behind it, so Surfais waits until your brand has built up real scan history before offering the first one: **at least 14 days of completed scan coverage**, measured from your earliest completed scan rather than the day you signed up, before the **Run new audit** button unlocks. If you're inside that window, the Audits page shows a card explaining your first audit is warming up, with the exact unlock date. There's nothing to do except keep scanning as normal — the countdown runs automatically. Because the clock measures scan coverage rather than account age, a brand with scan history from before you started using audits can already have the window satisfied. ## Allowances per plan Every paid plan includes a regular audit allowance, built into your subscription: | Plan | Audit allowance | | ---------- | ---------------------- | | Starter | 1 per month | | Growth | 2 per month | | Scale | Weekly | | Enterprise | Weekly, plus on-demand | Your allowance is enforced as a cadence — a minimum gap between audits for a given brand — rather than a balance that runs out at a fixed point in the month. Run within your plan's cadence and it's simply your scheduled audit; try to run again before the next one is due and Surfais tells you the date it becomes available, with the option to buy an extra one instead. See [Extra audits & credits](/audits/extra-audits) for exactly how that works. Free trials include one complimentary audit, once the warm-up window has passed. The recurring allowance above applies once you're on a paid plan. ## Starting an audit Navigate to **Audits** from the sidebar for the brand you want to assess. Running an audit needs four fields set: **industry**, **geography**, **business model**, and **scale** — what the [category-viability filtering](/audits/what-audits-check#recommendations-are-filtered-to-what-you-can-actually-do) runs on. If any are missing, **Run new audit** is disabled with a link straight to fill them in. Past the warm-up window, within your allowance, with a complete profile — the button starts the audit and takes you to its detail page. A typical audit takes **up to 5 minutes**. Leave the page and come back to **Audits** later — the report is there once it's ready. ## Delivery: PDF and email Every completed audit — not just the most recent — offers two ways to take it with you: **Download PDF**, a formatted export ready to share with a client, a developer, or your own team, and **Email me this audit**, which sends the same report to your account email. ## Framework versioning Audits are generated against a versioned framework — the rules that define what each category checks, how recommendations are filtered, and how the report is structured. Each audit is permanently pinned to the framework version it ran under at the time, shown on its detail page. When the framework is updated, only new audits use the new version — **past audits never change retroactively**, so a report you downloaded last month always matches what you see if you open it again today. ## Related pages The six scoring categories and how recommendations are filtered. A section-by-section walk through the report. Buying an audit outside your plan's allowance. Full detail on what each plan includes.