Go to your organization’s Engineering Framework URL and log in. If this is
the very first time anyone from your company has logged in, you’ll be taken
straight into a short setup wizard to create your organization — see
Creating your first Organization.
Before you start clicking around, it’s worth knowing the shape of the
product — see Core Concepts for the two-minute version:
your company is an organization, which can be split into departments,
and all of your work lives inside projects.
Every project is measured against a shared checklist of what good
planning looks like — things like technical design, security review, and
rollout planning. Skim The Framework Checklist to see
what’s tracked out of the box, and whether you want to customize it for your
team.If your projects move through stages (like Discovery → Design → Delivery),
Project Phases let you decide which checklist items matter
most at each stage, so people aren’t shown irrelevant items too early.
Add the people on your team and decide who should be able to manage
projects and roles versus who just needs to view and work within them. See
Permissions & Roles Explained.
If your team uses an AI coding assistant like Claude Code, you can connect it
directly to your planning checklist and Knowledge Base — so it can check
what’s missing on a project, pull a template, or search past decisions
without anyone copy-pasting into a chat window. See
Framework MCP Server to get started.
Engineering Framework is open source. If you’re technical and want to run
your own instance instead of using a hosted one, see the
repository README for setup
instructions.
