Organizations
An organization is your workspace on Rival. Every tool you build, every member you collaborate with, every credit you spend or earn - all of it lives inside an organization. Before you can access the dashboard or build anything, you need one.
How organizations are created
When you sign up for Rival, you’re prompted to create an organization immediately after your account is set up. This step is required - there’s no dashboard access until an organization exists. You only go through this once; after that, your workspace is ready and persists as long as your account is active.
If you’re invited to join an existing organization, you don’t need to create your own. You become a member of theirs and can start working within that workspace right away.
What an organization contains
An organization is the top-level container for everything on the platform.
Tools are the core of what you build. All the tools your organization creates - across all members - live here, along with their versions, executions, and publication status.
Members and roles determine who has access and what they can do. The owner has full control, admins can manage tools and members, and members need explicit assignment before they can access anything meaningful.
Teams let you group tools and members together for easier access management. Instead of assigning each person to each tool individually, you manage it at the team level.
API keys are org-wide credentials for calling your tools programmatically. Any valid API key from your organization can be used to authenticate requests.
Environment variables are workspace-level key-value pairs that you can assign to specific tools. They’re the right way to store secrets or configuration values that your tool code needs at runtime.
Digital assets are files stored in the cloud, up to 500 MB per organization. Assets can be set to Public or Private visibility and are accessible to tools in the workspace.
Billing covers your credit wallet, transaction history, earnings from published tools, and payout settings. The organization’s credit balance is shared across all members - every execution anyone runs draws from the same pool.
Your organization name matters
Your organization name appears in your tool URLs and marketplace listings. A tool published by your organization will appear at cortexone.rival.io/{org-name}/tool-name. Choose a name that reflects your project, company, or identity as a builder - something clear and permanent.
Public profile
If you publish tools to the marketplace, your organization’s bio and social links appear on your public profile page. Users browsing the marketplace can see who built a tool and learn more about your organization. Filling in your bio and adding relevant social links makes your tools more trustworthy and discoverable.
Switching between organizations
If you belong to multiple organizations - for example, you created your own and were also invited to a client’s - you can switch between them from the account menu in the dashboard. Each organization is completely isolated: separate tools, members, billing, and credits. Make sure you’re in the right one before making changes.
When to create a new organization
Most developers work within a single organization. But there are good reasons to create a separate one: you’re building for a different client with separate billing, you want to keep a personal project fully isolated from professional work, or you’re setting up a distinct product or company entity with its own marketplace presence.
Each organization has its own credit wallet and billing settings, so separation at the organization level means clean separation of costs and earnings too.
Workspace Settings
The main settings hub for your organization is Workspace Settings, accessible from the dashboard. It contains five tabs:
- Members - invite and manage organization members and their roles
- Teams - create and manage teams of tools and members
- API - manage API keys and environment variables
- Billing - credit wallet, transactions, earnings, and payouts
- Organization - name, bio, social links, phone verification, and other org-level settings