# Getting started · Look up a recipient with Bird in three steps

## Three steps to knowing your recipient.

Create an account, ask one question about a real phone number or email address, then add the properties your decision actually needs.

## From sign-up to your first answer in an afternoon.

There is nothing to create, nothing to poll, and nothing to clean up. Follow these three steps and Lookup is in production.

## Ask before you send.

Named fields from real carrier and mailbox data, one API key shared with the rest of the platform, and a bill that only covers the answers you got. Sign up and run your first lookup in under five minutes.