Signup & Onboarding

From nothing to a working project in one session. This page is for the person setting a workspace up — if someone already invited you, start with Joining an existing team instead.

Before you start

Already have colleagues on Lithora?

Don't create a second, empty workspace. Read Joining an existing team— if you sign up on a company email domain you may be able to find your colleagues' workspace and request access.

1. Create your account

Go to the signup page and register with an email address and password, or continue with Google or GitHub. Use your work email — a company domain is what makes domain-based discovery possible for the teammates who sign up after you.

The trial starts here

Both paid plans include a 7-day trial and neither asks for a credit card to begin. There is no free tier: when the trial ends without a subscription the account moves to a locked state — your data is kept, but paid surfaces stop resolving until you choose Pro or Scale. See Billing & Plans.

2. Set up your profile

Open Settings › Profile and do three things now, because they change how the product behaves later:

Upload an avatar. Assignee avatars are how the board stays readable at a glance.
Set your timezone. Due dates, the calendar and timeline views, and digest timing all key off it.
Turn on two-factor authentication under Settings › 2FA. You are about to become a workspace owner, which is the account worth protecting.

3. Create your team

A team is the unit that owns projects and holds permissions. Click the + next to “Teams” in the sidebar, name it after the group of people (“Engineering”), not the work (“Q3 launch”). You are the Owner of the team you create, and the owner is who the seat invoice is charged to.

Full detail in Creating & Managing Teams.

4. Get real work in

An empty workspace teaches you nothing. Pick whichever of these matches where your work lives today:

Start a project

Create one project for something already in flight, then add the five or six work items you actually have in your head. See Projects 101.

Connect GitHub

Two-way issue sync, AI PR review and CI-failure triage. See GitHub PR & CI.

Import from your old tool

Linear, Jira, Asana, Trello or a CSV, mapped and previewed before anything is written. See Import & Migrate.

5. Invite the people who need it

Members and admins — the people doing the work. Each one is a billable seat. Invite them from Team Settings › Members.
Guests — clients, execs and contractors who only need to read. Free, never on the invoice, capped at 5 per team on Pro and 25 on Scale. See Roles & Permissions.

If you want future colleagues on your email domain to find this workspace by themselves, turn on domain discovery in Team Settings — covered in Joining an existing team.

6. Meet the agent

Press ⌘K and ask the agent to break a large item down or plan the week. It proposes a plan and executes only the actions you approve, and every executed action is written to the audit trail. See Lithora AI.