How Organizations Start
How a Kilo IoT organization starts: a default workspace created for each new user, or joining one by invitation.
An organization is the shared Kilo workspace containing devices, dashboards, rules, and team permissions. Your personal account joins a workspace before you start configuring a deployment.
If a new user has no organization, Kilo creates a default one and makes that user its owner. An invitation is the route for joining someone else's existing organization; accepting it adds membership rather than creating another workspace. There is no separate Create Organization button in the interface.
Default Organization
When a user first accesses the platform and does not yet belong to any organization, the system automatically creates one and assigns the user as its owner. The organization is named based on the user's profile:
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{FirstName}'s IoT (e.g., "Maria's IoT")
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This happens transparently — the user lands in their new organization without any extra steps. From there, they can rename the organization in Organization Settings and invite colleagues through Inviting Users.
Joining an Existing Organization
The second path into an organization is by invitation. A member of an existing organization who has permission to manage users sends an invitation to someone who already has a Kilo IoT platform account. The recipient receives an email with a link. When they click the link and the acceptance succeeds, they join the organization with the permissions the inviter assigned.
For the full invitation workflow, see Inviting Users and Accepting Invitations.
After Joining
What a user can do inside the organization depends on the permissions assigned at invitation time — or, for the owner of a default organization, on the automatic access that comes with ownership. Permissions can be adjusted later by anyone with user management access. See Roles and Page Access for how the permission model works.
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