Personal organizations vs. team organizations
When you sign up for The Taurus, the platform automatically creates a personal organization for you. This is your individual workspace. Any notices you create, any chapters you define, and any billing you configure all live inside this personal organization by default.
For many users, a personal organization is all they need. If you are an independent candidate filing your own transparency notices, you can work entirely within your personal organization and never think about team features.
But if you work with other people — as part of a political party, a campaign team, or an agency managing multiple clients — you will want a team organization. Team organizations let multiple people collaborate on the same notices, share resources, and maintain a single compliance record for the group.
Why create a team organization
A team organization gives you several capabilities that a personal organization does not:
- Invite colleagues and assign them roles so they can create, edit, or review notices alongside you
- Share notices across the team instead of duplicating work or forwarding drafts by email
- Set organization-level defaults for fields like sponsor information, data controllers, and payment methods, so team members do not have to re-enter them for every notice
- Centralize billing under one account for the entire organization
- Create chapters to segment your notices by region, department, or campaign
- Maintain a single audit trail that covers all activity by all members
How to create a team organization
- Sign in to The Taurus and go to your Dashboard.
- In the organization switcher (top left of the navigation), click Create Organization.
- Enter a name for your organization. Choose something recognizable to your team — for example, the name of your party, campaign, or agency.
- Confirm the creation.
You are now the Owner of the new organization. The platform switches you into the new organization's context, and you can start configuring it immediately.
What to do next
Once the organization exists, you will typically want to:
- Invite team members. Go to the Members page and add colleagues by email. You choose their role — Owner, Editor, or Viewer — when you send the invitation. See the article on inviting team members for details.
- Create chapters. If your organization manages notices across different regions or departments, chapters let you group them logically.
- Set up billing. Navigate to the Billing section to configure your payment method and select a plan that fits your team size.
- Configure defaults. Fill in organization-level sponsor and data controller details so team members can reuse them when creating notices.
When to use which
| Scenario | Use |
|---|---|
| Independent candidate, filing your own notices | Personal organization |
| Political party with multiple staff members | Team organization |
| Campaign team coordinating ad buys across channels | Team organization |
| Agency managing transparency notices for multiple clients | One team organization per client |
| Individual testing the platform before inviting others | Personal organization first, team organization later |
You can belong to multiple organizations at the same time and switch between them using the organization switcher. Your personal organization always remains available.