Creating Your Workspace

This guide walks you through starting a Sparko free trial and creating your company's workspace.

Before You Start

• Use your work email address. Your email's domain identifies your company: one company domain maps to exactly one Sparko workspace.
• Every trial includes all modules for 14 days, with no credit card required.

Step 1: Sign Up

1. Go to app.sparko.app/signup
2. Enter your work email and company name
3. Pick your workspace URL — this becomes your team's sign-in address (for example, acme.sparko.app). Sparko suggests one from your company name and tells you immediately if it's available.
4. Enter your country — this sets your workspace's timezone, public-holiday calendar, and leave defaults
5. Click Create my workspace

Step 2: Confirm Your Email

We send a confirmation link to your address. Click it, then click Create my workspace on the page that opens. The link is valid for 24 hours — if it expires, just sign up again with the same details.

Step 3: Set Your Password

Once your workspace is created, you'll set your password right away and land in guided setup, which walks you through seven short steps:

1. Basics — your company details are prefilled from signup; just confirm your country (it drives holidays, leave defaults, and your work week)
2. Import your team — upload a spreadsheet, or connect your current HRIS (BambooHR, SAP SuccessFactors, or Workday) with its URL and an API key and Sparko reads your directory. Either way, a review window shows every row before anyone is staged — edit cells, remove rows, then confirm. The API key is used once and never stored
3. Modules — enable the modules you need; everything can be flipped later
4. Leave, holidays & hours — Sparko proposes global defaults (annual leave, a separate sick-leave policy, holiday calendars, work week) plus a per-country override you can adjust for each country your team works in. Approve each block (or edit first); overrides apply only to people working in that country. Nothing you don't approve is created
5. Growth & culture — proposals built from your import: career paths clustered from your job titles (untick any you don't want), salary bands per level and country, a 30/60/90 onboarding task library, a pulse-survey cadence with a first draft survey, an interview pipeline with offer approvals, plus an optional first review cycle and starter company OKRs
6. AI & Privacy — turn the AI assistant on or off and choose your pay-transparency level
7. Confirm & launch — full-width sections listing exactly what will be created, nothing more

Imported teammates are staged, not emailed — you send invitations from Admin Settings → People when you're ready. You can re-open guided setup any time from Admin Settings → Company; re-runs only add, they never replace what you've already configured.

If Your Company Already Uses Sparko

If your email's domain already has a Sparko workspace, you won't be able to create a second one. Instead, after confirming your email you'll be offered two options:

• Ask a colleague — any administrator of your company's workspace can invite you directly
• Send a join request — we'll notify your workspace's administrators; they'll email you an invitation if approved

Troubleshooting

Problem	What to do
Confirmation email didn't arrive	Check your spam folder, then sign up again — a new link replaces the old one
"This workspace URL is already taken"	Pick one of the suggested alternatives or enter a different one
"This email already has a Sparko account"	Log in instead — use your workspace's sign-in address
Confirmation link expired	Sign up again with the same details

What Happens After Your Trial

Your trial lasts 14 days. When it ends, your workspace becomes read-only — nothing is deleted and your data stays safe. Contact the Sparko team to activate your subscription and pick up exactly where you left off.