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# Subscribe to Toucan AI

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**Target Audience**: Non technical users
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### Goal

Establish a Toucan AI account and create an organization to manage databases, dashboards, and permissions.

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### Prerequisites

* Access to a Toucan AI signup page for cloud or self-hosted instances.
* A valid email address for account verification.

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### Steps

#### 1. Create Your Account

* Navigate to the Toucan AI signup page.
* Enter your name and email address.
* Define a password.
* Click the verification link sent to your email inbox.

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**Constraint**: An account is mandatory to access analytics features and manage organizational settings.
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#### 2. Initialize Your First Organization

* Enter a name for your organization when prompted.
* Access the settings menu to modify the organization slug or URL.
* Invite team members from the organization settings panel.

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**Technical Note**: All databases, charts, dashboards, and user roles are scoped to the organization.
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### Conclusion

You now have a verified account and an active organization. You may now proceed to connect data sources and define your semantic layer.

**Suggested** **Next Steps**: [How-to: Add a database](/build/data-connections/how-to/add-a-database.md)