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title: Organizations
description: Understand organization types, ownership boundaries, member permissions, and funding contexts.
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In Zorveus, an **Organization** is the fundamental security, ownership, and funding boundary. All apps, wallets, provider credentials, product users, and members belong to an organization.

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## Organization Types

Business is the product name for an organization that funds its own AI product. The API represents this type as `startup`. Use `startup` in API requests and interpret that value as Business in your application UI.

| Type | Intended Audience | Spendable Wallet? | Primary Capabilities |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Business**, API value `startup` | AI Product Teams & Companies | Yes | Create internal apps, issue API keys, manage product users, store BYOK credentials, grant credits. |
| **`developer`** | Third-Party Tool Creators | No (aggregate only) | Register OAuth applications, configure redirect URIs, manage test users, review OAuth consent logs. |
| **`personal`** | Individual AI Consumers | Yes | Fund personal wallet, manage connected OAuth applications, set personal spending caps. |

<Callout type="note" title="Internal Organizations">
  The `internal` organization type is reserved strictly for Zorveus platform infrastructure operations and is never available as a selectable customer workspace.
</Callout>

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## Ownership and Isolation

- **Isolated Wallets**: Each Business and personal organization owns a distinct ledger wallet with independent balances and currency rules. Funds cannot automatically spill over between organizations.
- **Member Access**: Users can belong to multiple organizations (e.g. your personal wallet and your company's business workspace) with distinct role permissions in each.
- **Provider Credentials**: BYOK credentials added to Organization A are completely invisible and unrouteable by Organization B, even if both organizations are managed by the same team members.

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## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Apps, Connections, and Keys" icon="layers" href="/concepts/apps-connections-and-keys">
    Understand how apps bind to organizations through programmatic or OAuth connections.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Members & Roles" icon="shield" href="/startups/members">
    Configure team member access, role permissions, and spending delegations.
  </Card>
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