---
title: "POST /organizations"
method: POST
path: "/organizations"
tags: ["Organizations"]
---

# POST /organizations

`POST /organizations`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://docs.keycard.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://docs.keycard.ai/organizations`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2
    - Client credentials
    - Token URL: `/service-account-token`

## Headers

- `X-Client-Request-ID` string, uuid

## Request body

- OrgManagementCreateOrganizationRequest
  - `name` string: A name for the entity to be displayed in UI

## Response `201`

Organization created successfully

- OrgManagementOrganization
  - `id` string, required: Identifier for API resources. A 26-char nanoid (URL/DNS safe).
  - `name` string, required: A name for the entity to be displayed in UI
  - `label` string, required: A domain name segment for the entity, often derived from the name.
  - `sso_enabled` boolean, required: Whether SSO is enabled for this organization
  - `zone_id` string, required: Identifier of the zone containing this organization's users and their permissions and roles in the organization.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required: The time the entity was created in utc
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required: The time the entity was mostly recently updated in utc
  - `permissions` OrgManagementPermissions: Permissions granted to the authenticated principal for this resource. Only populated when the 'expand[]=permissions' query parameter is provided. Keys are resource types (e.g., "organizations"), values are objects mapping permission names to boolean values indicating if the permission is granted.

## Other responses

- `400`: bad request error response when caller supplied invalid input data
- `401`: unauthorized error response when caller session is not authenticated
- `403`: forbidden error response when caller does not have permissions to a resource
- `409`: Organization with label already exists
- `429`: rate limit exceeded error response when caller has exhausted api limits for the given time period
- `500`: internal server error response when server encountered error of its own creation
- `503`: service unavailable error when server you're attempting to reach is not available
- `default`: internal server error response when server encountered error of its own creation

## Changes

- **2026-10-16** `0cfaff865771`: 16 breaking, 8 warning, 83 info
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `400`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `401`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `403`
  - the response property `details/items/field` became optional for the status `409`
  - …103 more
- **2026-03-16** `d3d69f45bfed`: 3 info
  - the endpoint scheme security `OAuth2` was added to the API
  - the endpoint scheme security `bearerAuth` was added to the API
  - the endpoint scheme security `org-management_bearerAuth` was removed from the API
- **2026-02-06** `edd1b760a989`: 1 warning, 2 info
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `X-Request-ID`
  - the endpoint scheme security `org-management_bearerAuth` was added to the API
  - the endpoint scheme security `svc-org-management_bearerAuth` was removed from the API

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/keycardai/apis/keycard-ai-keycard-api/changes/organizations/post.md)

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