Create your account

Every person who signs in to Monument starts with an account before joining or creating a firm. An account is deliberately small: a name, an email, a password. It doesn't belong to a firm yet, and it doesn't need to. That comes next.

For our running example, the account belongs to Sarah Chen at Northlight Architects.

The account is yours before it's anyone's firm

Signing up creates you, not a workspace. That distinction matters because Monument keeps the two separate on purpose: your login can end up attached to more than one organisation over time, so it can't also be the organisation itself. Think of the account as the key and the organisation, which you set up right after, as the door it opens.

Sign up

You land on the sign-in page first. Since there's nothing to sign into yet, switch tabs and fill in three details.

1. 1

   On the sign-in page, switch to the Sign Up tab.

2. 2

   Enter your full name, the way you'd want a colleague to see it.

3. 3

   Enter your email address. It becomes your login, and where Monument reaches you.

4. 4

   Choose a password of at least eight characters.

5. 5

   Click Create Account. Monument signs you in and moves you to the setup wizard's first step, Demo company or Start from scratch.

Troubleshooting

• The next screen is a setup wizard, not a dashboard. A fresh account has no workspace attached, so Monument sends you straight into choosing a demo company or starting from scratch rather than showing you an empty dashboard.
• If someone invited you, sign up with the invited email. Your invitation is tied to that address. Sign up with it and Monument shows the organisation screen with your invitation waiting instead of the setup wizard, so you can accept it or add your own organisation with Add organisation.

Where this fits next

Account done. Create your workspace turns it into a live organisation, either your real firm or a demo company loaded with sample data to explore first.