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This page gets you from a new login to a working setup: an organization, your team, and your first project.

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1. Log in

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.

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2. Understand what you’re looking at

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.

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3. Set up your planning checklist

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.

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4. Invite your team and set permissions

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.

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5. Connect your AI coding assistant (optional)

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.

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Self-hosting

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.