> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.myresearchlab.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> From sign-up to a running study in about an afternoon.

Massive Research Lab lets you **build** an online psychology experiment, **preregister** it, **run** it with real participants, and **share** it openly — all in one place.

## The shape of the work

<Steps>
  <Step title="Build">
    Assemble your study from **blocks** (questions, stimuli, timers, media tasks) in the Builder. No coding.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preregister (optional)">
    Freeze a version and push it to the [OSF](/integrations/osf) so your hypotheses are timestamped before data collection.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run">
    Open recruitment and share a link, or recruit a balanced sample through [Prolific](/integrations/prolific).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Share">
    Make the study public so others can read, cite, and **replicate** it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Five-minute path

1. [Sign up](/getting-started/signing-up) and create your first workspace.
2. From **Explore** or **Studies**, click **Start building** — you land in the Builder on a fresh draft.
3. Add a few blocks, set any [conditions](/builder/conditions) or [variants](/builder/variants) you need.
4. Use **Preview** to take the study exactly as a participant would.
5. **Publish** (or [preregister](/methodology/preregistration)) to make it runnable, then open recruitment on the **Run** stage.

## Key ideas

* **Workspace** — your team's container for studies, members, and connections. You can belong to several.
* **Draft → frozen version** — autosaves are your live draft; **preregister** or **publish** freezes an immutable version you can run and cite.
* **Replicate** — copy any public study into your workspace as a faithful starting point.

Next: [Sign up →](/getting-started/signing-up)