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# Laioutr at a glance: organisation, project, environments
The organisation is the company account with members, roles and billing, a project is one storefront or website inside it, and environments are independent copies of a project, starting with the live environment main.
## Before you start
- Duration
- 4 min
Last reviewed on October 15, 2026
Laioutr is a Frontend Management Platform. In Cockpit, everything is organised on three levels that appear throughout the product.
### Organisation
The organisation represents the company or team. It holds members, roles, billing, API keys and the list of all projects. The organisation buys licences and assigns them to individual projects. One personal account can be a member of any number of organisations.
### Project
A project is one storefront or website, for example one brand. Each project has its own Studio, apps, markets, languages, redirects and deployments. CMS entries and media belong to the project as a whole.
### Environments
Every project starts with **main**, the live site. Copies such as **stage** or **dev** can run beside it, each with its own address, pages, apps and platform version. Changes reach a storefront only when its environment is deployed. The plan decides how many environments a project can have.
## Step by step
1. 1 ### Step 1: Open the organisation
Select the organisation in Cockpit and open its **Settings**. The tabs **General**, **Projects**, **Members**, **Roles**, **Billing** and **API keys** cover everything that applies to the whole company.
2. 2 ### Step 2: Open a project
Click a project in the **Projects** tab. The sidebar now shows the project areas, such as **Studio**, **Apps**, **Markets** and **Deployments**.
3. 3 ### Step 3: View environments
Open **Environments** in the project sidebar. Each environment appears as a card with its address, platform version and the actions **Deploy**, **History** and **Open**.
## Frequently asked questions
When is a second project better than a second market?
Another market in the same project fits when brand, page structure and team stay the same and mainly language, currency and content differ. A separate project fits when brands have their own design, page structure or team.
Do environments share content?
Pages and sections, markets, languages, redirects and apps belong to one environment each. CMS entries, media and the project secret key belong to the project and are the same in every environment.
Can one account belong to several organisations?
Yes. A personal account can be a member of any number of organisations, for example the employer and an agency.
## Related
- [Create the first project](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/create-the-first-project)5 min
In the organisation settings, use Create project in the Projects tab, choose a starting point and open the project; markets, apps and Studio follow.
- [How data flows in Laioutr](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/how-data-flows-in-laioutr)5 min
Studio defines how a page is built, and Orchestr fetches the data for it on the server from connected systems such as shop, CMS or ERP and combines it into one unified data model.
- [Create projects and dev and stage environments](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/create-projects-and-dev-and-stage-environments)6 min
A project is created in the organisation settings under Projects and starts with the live environment main. Further environments such as stage or dev are created in the project under Environments as a copy of an existing one.
- [Understanding the main, dev and stage environments](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/understanding-main-dev-and-stage-environments)5 min
Every project starts with the main environment, which is the live storefront. Further environments such as stage or dev run beside it as separate copies with their own address, pages, apps and deployments until their work is promoted to main.
- [Set up markets, currencies and domains](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/set-up-markets-currencies-and-domains)7 min
A market bundles name, currency, flag and the domains visitors use to reach a storefront. Markets are created in the project under Markets, and each domain gets a language from Translations.
## Learn it in a lesson
- [The route to go-live at a glance](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/go-live-the-route-at-a-glance)5 min
- [Organisation, project and environments](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/foundations-organisation-project-environments)10 min
- [Welcome to Foundations](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/foundations-welcome)4 min
- [Understand the architecture](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/lektionen/developer-architecture)10 min
## [Account and first project](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/leitfaeden/account-and-first-project)
Search this guide
1. [Laioutr at a glance: organisation, project, environments](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/laioutr-at-a-glance-organisation-project-environments)4 min
2. [Sign up and create an organisation](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/sign-up-and-create-an-organisation)3 min
3. [Create the first project](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/create-the-first-project)5 min
4. [How data flows in Laioutr](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/how-data-flows-in-laioutr)5 min
5. [From sign-up to a live storefront without help](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/from-sign-up-to-a-live-storefront-without-help)12 min
6. [Start a project from a Blueprint](https://academy.laioutr.com/en/artikel/start-a-project-from-a-blueprint)5 min
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