# Getting started

Create an account, find your way around, and set up your first project — everything before the everyday loop.

Canonical page: https://app.teachervoiceai.com/docs/getting-started

New to Machine? Start here. This page gets you from "no account" to "ready to run
your first session." For the loop you'll repeat every day, continue to the
[Quickstart](/docs/quickstart).

## Create your account

### Sign up

Go to the Machine app and sign up. You can use single sign-on if your
organization has it configured, or an email and password. Verify your email if
prompted, and you'll land in the dashboard.

### Personal vs. team

Your sign-up creates a **personal account** — your own workspace. If you're here
to work with a team, you'll either create a **team account** or accept an
invitation to join one. You can belong to several accounts and switch between
them from the account picker.

## Find your way around

A few things to know up front:

- **Accounts** are workspaces. Each account owns its own projects, members,
  billing, and settings. The account picker (top of the dashboard) switches
  between the ones you belong to.
- **Projects** live inside an account. A project is one git repository plus its
  configuration — it's where you run sessions and ship work.
- **Sessions** run inside a project. Each is one agent run in a disposable
  sandbox. This is where the actual work happens.

So the hierarchy is simply: **account → project → session.**

## Create your first project

From your projects list, create a project. You can:

- **Start fresh** — Machine sets up a new managed repository for you.
- **Import an existing repo** — connect GitHub and pick a repository to work in.

See [Working with projects](/docs/guides/working-with-projects) for the details
of each path.

## What's next

You're set up. From here:

1. **[Run your first session](/docs/guides/running-a-session)** — give an agent a
   task and watch it work.
2. **[Review the result](/docs/guides/reviewing-changes)** — merge what you want
   to keep.
3. **[Customize the project](/docs/guides/customizing-your-project)** — connect
   tools, add secrets, invite teammates.

Or read the [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart) for the whole loop end to end.