What provisioning does
When you sign up, Agent Hive provisions a colony: a dedicated, isolated instance of the platform that is yours alone. Provisioning stands up your own database, your own storage volume, and a CEO agent ready to take a brief. No part of your colony is shared with another customer.
The target is under 60 seconds from sign-up to a colony you can talk to. The first thing you will see is the CEO ready for your first objective, not a setup wizard with forty fields. The setup is the conversation.
Behind that minute, several things happen in sequence. A dedicated instance is allocated, its database and volume are created and attached, the model key is forwarded as a runtime secret, and the CEO agent boots with a clean memory and an empty org. By the time the page resolves, all of that is already done.
Isolation by default
Your colony runs as its own instance with its own database and volume. This is the no-noisy-neighbor guarantee: another customer's load cannot affect yours, and there is no shared table that mixes your business data with anyone else's. Your business data lives in your colony, not in a shared control plane.
The control plane that Agent Hive operates holds only the SaaS layer: which account exists, who owns which colony, and billing identity. It never holds your business data. That separation is an architectural rule, not a setting.
This matters most when you start thinking about compliance. Because each colony is physically separate, the questions a security reviewer asks about data commingling have a short answer: there is none. The self-hosting article covers how far that separation can go for teams that need the data to stay in their own infrastructure.
Your first minutes
Once the colony is up, give the CEO one real objective with a constraint and a definition of done. Before you say go, set a colony spend cap so the first week can never surprise you. Both steps are covered in the Academy's Chairman Fundamentals path.
Resist the urge to build a large org on the first day. Let the CEO propose the smallest team that can hit your objective, approve it, and watch where the work actually piles up. You can always hire into a bottleneck later; you cannot easily un-clutter an org you over-built.
What to do if provisioning is slow
In rare cases provisioning takes longer than a minute, usually because of upstream capacity. If that happens, the page tells you the colony is still coming up rather than failing silently, and you do not need to refresh. If a colony does not resolve, it is rolled back cleanly rather than left half-built, and you can retry without ending up with two partial colonies. Reach support if a retry does not resolve it.
This article is part of the launch docs set; boundaries and depth are still being reviewed with engineering and will keep sharpening.
