# Sign in (/docs/getting-started/sign-in)

Living Stories is at [portal.livingstorieslab.com](https://portal.livingstorieslab.com). You sign in with a Vercel account.

Signing in is open to:

- the &why team,
- people an organisation has added,
- anyone with an invite code.

If signing in fails, your email is not on any of these lists yet. Ask the person who invited you to add you, or ask for an invite code.

## Join with an invite code [#join-with-an-invite-code]

1. Open [portal.livingstorieslab.com/join](https://portal.livingstorieslab.com/join).
2. Enter the code, then sign in with Vercel.
3. Name your organisation. Your stories live in it, and it comes with credit for generating.

If the code came from an existing organisation, you join that organisation instead.

## Organisations [#organisations]

An organisation owns stories. Everyone in it can open them. An organisation can also add people from email domains it names, and pay for generating with its own keys. See [Budgets and credit](/docs/media/budgets).

Your organisations are on the **Organisations** page. Creating a new one needs a premium account; an admin can make yours premium.