Before you can do compliance work in Regnora you need an **organisation** — the top-level container that holds your projects, members, and billing. This page covers getting in the door: signing in, creating or joining an organisation, and securing your account.

## Signing in

Regnora signs you in by **email link** — enter your email and Regnora sends you a link to click, so there's no password to remember. You can also **Continue with Google** or **Continue with Microsoft** to sign in with an existing account. If you're brand new, **Get started** takes you through creating your account; returning users go straight to **Sign in**. (If the email doesn't arrive, check your spam folder.)

## Creating or joining an organisation

The first time you sign in, you set up your organisation. If Regnora finds an existing organisation that matches your email domain, you can ask to **join** it; otherwise you **create a new one**, giving it a name, your company size, and a website URL. A new organisation may be briefly reviewed before it's activated.

If a colleague has already invited you, you'll instead **accept the invitation** and land directly in their organisation with the role they assigned — see [Members, roles & permissions](/guides/members-roles-and-permissions/).

## Multi-factor authentication

If your organisation [enforces two-factor authentication](/guides/org-settings-and-security/#multi-factor-authentication), you'll set it up before you can continue: scan the QR code with an authenticator app and enter the six-digit code to confirm. You can mark a browser as trusted to skip the challenge for 30 days.

## Finding your feet

After setup you land on your project home, where an onboarding strip points you at the three things that get a project working: **enable a framework**, **upload documents**, and **run a gap analysis**. The [Quick start](/get-started/quick-start/) walks through exactly that.