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This walks through a complete first setup in the Console, one screen at a time. By the end you’ll have a working Guardian you can call or roll out.

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1. Create your account

Open cloud.starfort.io. You land on the Sign-in page. To create a brand-new workspace for your company, click Bootstrap Tenant (“Need a new workspace for your company?”) — this opens the signup form. Fill in your name, email, and a password, then choose Create Account.
Signup form with the Create Account button highlighted

The signup form — then click Create Account

Your account id is your email; there is no email-verification step. The email is permanent — it cannot be changed after signup. (Already have an account, or were invited? Just sign in — any pending invitation is accepted automatically.)

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2. Name your company

Enter a Company name and choose Continue.
Company setup screen with the name field highlighted

Create your company

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3. Choose features

Pick For Desktop Agent, For API, or both, set the project quota for each (capped at the system-wide allowance), then Complete Setup. If you enable Desktop Agent, you also set the Agent User Count Limit here. Enable both to use the full platform. These choices are feature flags: only the types you enable can have projects, and each type’s project quota is editable later in Company Settings (within the system limit). See Project types in depth.
Feature selection with both options highlighted

Choose how you'll use Starfort

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4. Create an organization

In Organizations, choose New Organization and give it a name.
Add Organization dialog

Create an organization

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5. Create a project

On the organization card, choose New Project, name it, and pick the Project Type — API or Desktop Agent. The type is fixed after creation. See Organizations & projects.
Add Project dialog with the project type dropdown

Choose the project type

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6. Register a Guardian

In the project, choose Create Guardian: name it, select Input Types, and pick a preset such as VLM-OCR. See Register a Guardian.
Create Guardian form with Input Types and preset highlighted

Register a Guardian

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7. Assign a Guard Policy

Open the Guardian’s Policies → Add → Create & Assign Policy, name it and choose a Policy Type (PII or Topic). A Guardian with no policy doesn’t mask or block anything. See Author a Guard Policy.
Create & Assign Policy dialog with Policy Type set to PII

Create & assign a policy

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8. Get a credential

For an API project, open the Guardian’s API Keys → Add API Key and copy the key (shown once). For a Desktop Agent project, set up Control Profiles and roll out to Agent Users.
API Key Created dialog (key redacted)

Copy the key now — it is shown only once

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9. Verify & monitor

Make a test call (see the API quickstart) and watch it appear as a trace in Opticon.
Opticon Tracing list showing PASS/MASK/BLOCK traces

Traces in Opticon → Tracing

Ready to go to production? Follow the PoC → production checklist.