Create organizations and projects

Create an organization and project before setting up alterac.ai locally. Organizations group access and projects contain the task workflow.

Each organization gets its own free license for one person, with all features included, no trial expiry, and no credit card required. A free organization is capped at 1 member. The Members page shows that cap. To add people, the organization needs paid Team licenses, which are granted after a subscription. See Manage members and roles for capacity and purchase details. Any coding-agent subscription or usage costs are separate.

When an organization adds paid licenses, every license becomes paid, including the first. Team licenses are $15 per user per month, billed annually at $180 per user for a 12-month term, with no seat minimum and no monthly contracts. Contact [email protected] to discuss paid licenses. Pricing (external site) has the complete commercial terms and the separate guided Founder Pilot.

1. In the dashboard, select Organizations, then select Create organization.
2. Enter a clear organization name and slug. You can optionally add a logo.
3. Select Create organization.

You become the organization's owner. The organization groups projects and controls who can manage organization-wide members, labels, and settings.

To join an existing team's organization instead, ask one of its owners or administrators to add you. After they add you, return to Organizations and select that organization.

If you have a logo handy, add it. It gives the organization a little personality and appears throughout navigation wherever it can help people recognize the organization.

1. Open the organization you created.
2. Select Create project.
3. Enter a clear project name and slug. You can optionally add a logo.
4. Select Create project.

The project opens to its dashboard, including Tasks and Coding agents. Use the project that matches the existing local Git repository where you will use alterac.ai. If the project already exists, open it instead of creating another one.

Only organization owners and admins can create projects. If Create project is unavailable or you see No accessible projects, ask an organization owner, admin, or project lead to add you to the project you need. An owner or admin can create a project if the team does not have one yet. Once you can open your project, continue with local setup and your first task.

An organization owns its projects. Organization owners and admins can access every project in that organization. By default, new organization members become Team Members in every project. An organization owner or admin can turn off that default in organization settings when projects need individually managed access.

Organization access also requires active licenses. Your Organizations list always remains the dashboard starting point, even when you belong to only one organization. An expired organization remains visible there with an Expired status in place of its organization icon, so you can distinguish blocked access from removed membership. Selecting it, or opening any of its deep links, routes you to a blocked-access page inside the normal dashboard shell instead of organization content. You cannot open or change projects, tasks, members, pending access, or settings while it is expired. The page shows the expiration date and organization time zone, prominently directs you to contact [email protected] to reactivate licenses, checks for reactivation automatically, and returns to the requested organization page when service is restored. Existing memberships and project state remain in place throughout expiration.

If an organization link no longer exists or you no longer have access, alterac.ai shows an Organization not found recovery page. The app navigation bar remains available, while organization navigation, the sidebar, breadcrumbs, and organization content are removed. Select Return to Organizations to choose an organization you can access.

Project members can work in the projects to which they are added. A project lead can manage that project's settings, members, and labels, but cannot delete the project or manage the organization.

Use Manage members and roles to give people the access they need. Use Manage labels when you want shared task categories.

Organization owners and admins can set Organization time zone in Organization Settings, beside Working hours. The weekly calendar and Sprint/Milestone pages and dialogs use that shared setting, even without a configured weekly calendar. Older records show their dates in the current organization zone while keeping the original saved moments and history. See Project settings for the steps.

With the project open and a local checkout of the Git repository ready, continue to complete your first task. If your organization has paid licenses, add the people who will work there with appropriate organization or project access first. You can configure a project-level command through coding-agent setup before queueing work.