Create a project

A project holds one business: its data model, records, files, documents, members and AI agent. When you sign in for the first time and have no project yet, Studio walks you through creating one. Later you can add more from the project switcher in the navbar with New project.

Name your project

If Studio does not know your name yet, enter it. Your teammates see it next to your changes and comments.
Enter a Project name, such as the name of your store. You can rename it later.
If you own more than one team, choose the Team that owns the project. Its members, payment details and AI credits are shared by the team’s projects. Each project has its own plan and starts on the Free plan; see plans.

Choose how to start

Option	What you get	Good for
Commerce starter	A ready-made data model with 22 entities for catalog, inventory, orders, customers and marketing, set up for EU, UK and US markets.	Most stores, and anyone who wants to look around first.
Describe your business	You write a sentence or two about what you sell and how you work. The agent designs a data model for it and shows it to you before anything is created.	Businesses whose data looks different from a typical shop.
Start from scratch	An empty project. You build the data model in the chat, one request at a time.	People who already know exactly what they need.

With the commerce starter, keep Add a sample store (Aven Living) to try things out switched on if you want realistic data to experiment with: products and variants with pictures, stock, suppliers, orders, returns, reviews, support tickets and a few documents. The sample store has a few problems planted in it for the agent to find; see try the sample store. Leave it off to start with an empty catalog on the same model.

Choose Create project. Studio opens the AI chat of your new project.

While the project is set up

Commerce starter: a progress panel above the chat shows the entities being created and, if you chose it, the sample store being added. This usually takes under a minute. You can already ask the agent anything while it runs.
Describe your business: your description is sent to the agent, which proposes entities, fields and relationships. Review the proposal card and choose Approve to create them, or reject it and tell the agent what to change. Afterwards it offers to add a few example records.
Start from scratch: suggested prompts above the composer help you begin, such as “Design a schema for my business. Ask me what you need to know first.”

Your first data model does not need to be perfect. Ask the agent to add a field, link two entities or create a new one whenever you need it; every change is shown to you for approval first. See building your schema with the agent.

Invite your team

Projects are shared through their team. To bring teammates in, open the account menu in Studio’s navbar and choose Manage project. The project opens in the Dashboard; there, use Members → Add Member. Each person gets an email and finds the project in Studio after signing in with that address. See members and permissions for the roles you can give them.

Create a project from the Dashboard

You can also create projects in the Dashboard with the project creation action. A project created there starts empty; open it in Studio with Open in Studio and build its data model in the chat.

If you cannot create a project, your plan may have reached its project limit or you may not be allowed to create projects in that team. See limits or ask a team owner.

Next: try the sample store.