Open SweetHive

Create a hive

Anyone can create a hive. The person who creates it becomes its first admin, with an Admin group created automatically. Creation is a guided wizard that helps you design a complete environment - contexts and groups - before anything is created.

Start from My SweetHive → Hives → Create new.

Step 1 - Create

Choose what you want to build: Company, Team, School or Project on SweetHive - or a Museum (AerariumChain) / Academy (WiredExperience) on the satellite platforms. Your choice tunes the rest of the wizard.

Step 2 - Plan

Pick who owns the hive:

  • Personal - the hive lives on your personal account and its (free) plan.
  • Organisation - the hive belongs to one of your organisations and runs on the organisation's plan. See Settings for creating organisations and managing plans.

Step 3 - Template

Pick a starting structure from the template catalog for your cluster, or start Blank. Your purpose from step 1 preselects a matching template when there is one. A template describes a ready-made environment: the context tree, the groups, and which groups are active where.

Step 4 - Environment

This is the heart of the wizard: a full tree editor where you shape the environment before it exists. You can:

  • add, rename and delete contexts, nested as deep as you need;
  • add, rename and delete groups;
  • toggle which groups are active in each context - deciding, node by node, who will see what.

Take your time here: a well-designed tree means visibility takes care of itself later.

Step 5 - Details

Name the hive, add an optional description, and import a cover image - drag to reposition, zoom with the slider; SweetHive resizes it for you. If the environment you built is worth reusing, tick “save this environment as a reusable template” and it joins your template catalog for next time.

Create applies the whole edited tree in one atomic operation - contexts, groups and activations come to life together, and you land in the new hive as its admin.

Tip: design groups around audiences (Staff, Suppliers, Clients, Board), not around org charts. You'll target messages at audiences every day.

Leave or transfer a hive

From My Hives, open the ... menu on any hive tile.

  • Leave hive removes you from the hive. You lose access to it and its contents; the hive and everyone else stay. The owner cannot leave - transfer the hive or delete it instead.
  • Transfer hive (owner only) hands ownership to someone else. You can transfer to:
    • another admin of the hive - they receive a request and must accept it before ownership moves;
    • one of your organisations - applied immediately, so the organisation's plan, members and storage take over.

Incoming transfer requests appear in Invitations, where you accept or decline them.