Altertable Data Platform
Altertable accounts are split into organizations and environments. An organization is the company account: members, billing, and the environments you create. An environment is an isolated workspace for one stage of work, with its own cloud region, compute, catalogs, and analyses.
The core pieces are:
- Organizations own the account: Members, roles, billing, service accounts, and management API keys live on the organization. Create one organization per company or isolated tenant.
- Environments isolate work: Create an environment for each stage of your workflow (development, staging, production) or for a customer-specific boundary. Each environment has its own cloud provider, region, compute allocation, and lakehouse.
Organization
An organization is the top-level account. It holds:
- Team members and invitations
- The plan, usage, and compute units you allocate to environments
- Service accounts and management API keys
- Organization-wide integrations and shared AI context
Organization roles control who can administer the account and whether someone can read or write data across every environment. Use access control to assign organization, environment, and catalog roles.
Manage members, the plan, and environments from Organization settings.
Environment
An environment is the workspace you open in the app. Data, queries, insights, dashboards, tasks, and knowledge all live inside one environment.
Create a new environment when you need a separate stage or audience:
- production, staging, and development for the same product
- A dedicated environment for a customer or team that should not share catalogs
Each environment has:
- A slug used in app URLs and APIs (
/app/{organization}/{environment}) - A cloud provider and region for that environment's infrastructure
- Compute units allocated from the organization plan
- Its own catalogs, credentials, and analyses
Environment roles let people open one environment without granting access to the others. Catalog roles can narrow that further to a single data source.
How they fit together
Organization ├── Members, billing, service accounts └── Environments ├── production │ catalogs, compute, insights, tasks └── staging catalogs, compute, insights, tasks
Provision environments from Organization settings or with Terraform. Query and analyze inside an environment through the lakehouse.