# Organization

Learn more about organizations.

Our platform is built around a hierarchical structure that allows you to control and manage your data.

This flexible design scales well from early-stage startups to large corporations with different business units, meeting your data needs at any stage.

The hierarchical structure has three levels: **organization**, **workspace**, and **application**.

An organization is the highest hierarchical level in our platform, and typically corresponds to a single company, group of companies, or a personal project.

You can either create an organization or join an existing one as a member. Depending on your role in your organization, you may have different access permissions. For more information, refer to [organization roles](/explanation/organization/roles-and-permissions#roles).

Organizations make it easy to define data access policies through different divisions, called [workspaces](/explanation/workspace/overview), and to pool all the data related to their applications.