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Sign in to Stage 1 with a work email and password, or with LinkedIn or Google. Why a new workspace needs a company email.
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Your outreach goes out under your name, from your firm. So the front door to Stage 1 asks who you are and which firm you sell for before it builds anything.
Signing in takes a few seconds. Starting a workspace takes a company email.
Three ways in
You can sign in with a work email and a password, or tap Continue with LinkedIn or Continue with Google. Use whichever account you already live in.
A password needs at least 10 characters. Stage 1 keeps a salted hash of it, never the password itself. A wrong email and a wrong password get the same message, so nobody can use the sign-in screen to find out who has an account.
LinkedIn and Google hand back an email they've already confirmed. A password sign-up gets a confirmation link by email instead. Until you click it, you can look around, but you can't approve an account or invite a teammate.
A session lasts 30 days on a device. After that you sign in again.
Why it asks for a company email
New workspaces need a company address. Gmail, Outlook.com, iCloud and the other personal inboxes can't start one.
There are two reasons. Stage 1 sends from your own LinkedIn and email, and a workspace tied to a personal inbox doesn't say which firm is selling. And a free inbox per trial is the easiest way to farm research someone else paid for.
The company email does some work for you too. Stage 1 reads the domain and fills in your firm's name and website. Sign up as dana@north-field.com and you start with a workspace called North Field, pointed at north-field.com. The first screen asks you to confirm both, then your Board starts to build. If either is off, change it under Settings, Workspace.
Teammates you invite are exempt. The owner invited that exact address, so it counts as confirmed.
When you forget the password
Tap Forgot password on the sign-in screen and enter your work email. The reset link works once, for an hour. Saving a new password signs out every device on the account, so a session someone else picked up doesn't outlive the reset.
The screen gives the same answer whether or not the email has an account.
Signing in is not connecting
Continue with LinkedIn proves who you are. It doesn't give Stage 1 your LinkedIn for sending.
That's a separate step under Settings, Connections, where the owner connects LinkedIn and email so messages go out from your own accounts. Finding the buying committee and warm paths needs LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator on the account you connect. For which one fits, see LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator for warm paths.
One login, more than one firm
Some sellers run two business lines, or a brand their firm acquired. One login holds up to 10 workspaces. Each has its own Brain, accounts, plays and plan, and you switch between them without signing out.
Why this matters in a services sale
A services buyer checks who you are before they answer. A $300K engagement is a bet on your people, and the first thing they look at is the name and the firm on the message.
Messages from your own domain and your own LinkedIn, tied to a real firm, hold up to that check. A message from a throwaway inbox doesn't. The sign-in rules exist to keep every workspace on the right side of that line. More on why it matters in trust is the product.
Where to start
The sign-in screen is the first thing you see at the app. New to Stage 1, tap Sign up free and use your work email. Already have an account, sign in and you land on your Board. For what happens in the first few minutes after that, read your first Board in two minutes.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card. Plans and details are on the pricing page, or you can start your trial.