Organizations, Teams

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Organizations & Teams

Organizations and Teams are the foundation of how work is structured in AllSpice.

They define how people collaborate, how access is managed, and how hardware design work scales across your company.

If you are setting up your workspace or trying to understand how everything connects, start here.

Why this matters

Hardware teams are rarely flat.

You have multiple projects, cross-functional contributors, and varying levels of access to sensitive design data.

Organizations and Teams give you a clear way to:

  • Keep collaboration organized as your team grows
  • Ensure the right people have access to the right designs
  • Reduce confusion around ownership and responsibility
  • Maintain control without slowing down engineering work

How it works

AllSpice uses a simple structure that maps to how engineering teams already operate:

  • Organization
    Your company’s workspace in AllSpice. Most companies have a single organization that contains all users, teams, and projects.

  • Teams
    Groups within an organization. These can reflect project teams, disciplines like electrical or firmware, or program-based groupings.

  • Members and roles
    Define who can view, contribute, or manage repositories and design data.

How to structure your company

In most cases, you will create one organization per company.

Use Teams within that organization to organize:

  • Different product lines
  • Functional groups like EE, firmware, or manufacturing
  • Program or project-based teams

Large enterprises with distinct divisions may choose to use multiple organizations, but this is not the common setup.

What you can do in this section

In the articles below, you will learn how to:

Other ways to think about it

  • Organize your team in AllSpice
    Structure your workspace so collaboration stays clear and efficient as you scale

  • Set up your organization and teams
    Get your team up and running with the right structure from day one

  • Structure your workspace for collaboration
    Align people, projects, and permissions in a way that matches how hardware teams actually work