About this guide
What this guide helps you do#
This guide is for administrators: the people who add users, give them access, set up sites and keep AI spending under control. Each chapter starts with a job you need to get done, gives you the steps, shows how to check that it worked, and lists what to do if it did not. Everything here needs membership of the Admin group.
| I want to... | Go to |
|---|---|
| Find my way around the admin area | Chapter 1 |
| Add a person, create a service account for an integration, or create an API key | Chapter 2 |
| Put people into groups | Chapter 3 |
| Let a group (or a person) use, edit or delete things, or stop them | Chapter 4 |
| Create a site, choose its colours and logo | Chapter 5 |
| Set up the addresses that notification emails come from | Chapter 6 |
| Limit how much people spend on AI chat | Chapter 7 |
| See the monthly bill | Chapter 8 |
| Check our account details | Chapter 9 |
| Copy published dashboards to another site | Chapter 10 |
| Fix a problem | Chapter 11 |
Two other guides sit next to this one:
- Groundzero feature guide: Analyze and AI covers what everyone else uses day to day: visualizations, saved filters, dashboards, the AI chat assistant, AI agents, consumption metrics and account settings.
- The Data and Build and Run guides cover connections, the catalog, datasets, projects, notebooks and jobs.
The two areas of Groundzero#
Groundzero has two kinds of address.
| Area | Address pattern | Who uses it | What you find there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin area | admin.<client>.<domain> |
Members of the Admin group | Everything in this guide |
| Site | <site>.<client>.<domain> |
Everyone with an account | AI chat (the home page), Workspaces, Connections, Designer, DE/ML, Lakehouse, Catalog |
If you open the admin area without admin rights, Groundzero shows a card titled Access restricted with the text "You are not authorized to view this page."
How to read this guide#
- Button, tab and field names are in bold, exactly as they appear on screen.
- Values you type and fixed text use
monospace. - Screenshots use sample data for a company called Acme Retail. Names, numbers and dates are only examples.
- Tips show a faster or safer way to work. Notes explain something that is easy to miss. Warnings mark actions that cannot be undone or that cost money.
Tip
Work through chapters 2, 3 and 4 in order when you set up a new team: add the people, put them in a group, then give the group access.