> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://datum-4926dda5-docs-api-reference-demo.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Account Setup

> Datum Cloud Onboarding - How to create a user account, set up an organization, manage and collaborate with team members

The first step is to create a user account at [https://cloud.datum.net](https://cloud.datum.net).

* You will be asked to use a Google or a GitHub account for authentication.
* Your account will be associated with the primary email on your social account.
* We do not accept email and password registrations at this time.

Once you’ve created a user account, you can personalize your experience and access details by selecting your avatar or initials at the top right of your screen.

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## Orgs & projects

We use a standard cloud data model that associates Projects within Organizations. There are two types of Orgs:

* **Personal Org** - An entity created for each user that does not support collaboration and cannot be renamed. Consider this your personal sandbox.
* **Standard Org** - An entity that supports collaboration on projects, shared resources, and centralized management.

## Team management

To collaborate with team members, you’ll need to create or join a Standard Organization. Standard Organizations support the following coarse-grained roles:

* **Owners** - Full control over the organization and all resources.
* **Editors** - Control over all resources in an organization, except for team members.
* **Viewers** - Read-only access to all resources in an organization.

## Quotas

Datum is in active development and currently only offers a free tier with reasonable limits on resources. Resource limits (e.g. quotas) can be found under the setting areas for Organizations and Projects.

## Support

If you run into issues (including quotas that constrain your work, but also other things), simply drop a note to [support@datum.net](mailto:support@datum.net) or the live chat widget accessible at the top of the portal. [Discord](https://link.datum.net/discord) is also an option!