---
title: "Create Outpost"
description: "Create your Outpost in meinGPT and pair it with a pairing code"
canonical_url: "https://meingpt.com/en/docs/integrations/vault/deployment/create-vault"
language: en
---

# Create Outpost

Before the Outpost can do any work, you create it in meinGPT. Then you **pair** the installed application with that entry — using a pairing code.

## Access Company Settings

Creating a Outpost requires admin access:

1. Go to [app.meingpt.com](https://app.meingpt.com) and log in
2. Click your **company name** in the top right corner
3. Select **"Company Settings"** from the menu

**Can**

You need administrator permissions. Ask your company admin to grant you admin
access — or to create the Outpost for you.

## Create your Outpost

**Navigate to Outposts**

1. In Company Settings, click the **"Outposts"** tab
2. You'll see any existing Outposts (if any)
3. Click **"Add Outpost"**

**Configure the Outpost**

Fill in the form:

- **Name**: a descriptive name (e.g. "Production", "Engineering Docs", "HR Knowledge Base")
- **URL**: **leave this empty** — it is assigned automatically

**Important**: Do not enter anything in the URL field. The system generates the connection URL automatically.

**Create it**

1. Click **"Create Connection"**
2. Wait for the Outpost to be created
3. The new Outpost appears in the list with status **🔴 Not Connected** — that's expected until an instance is paired

## Pair your Outpost

After creating it, you connect the installed application to this entry **once** — with a **pairing code** you generate here and type into the setup wizard on the Outpost machine.

**Generate a pairing code**

On the Outpost, click **"Pair device"**. meinGPT shows you a short pairing code.

**Enter the code in the Desktop app**

Launch the Outpost Desktop app, choose **"Pair with meinGPT"**, and enter the code. That's it — the app sets up the connection and tunnel itself.

**Pairing codes are short-lived**

A pairing code is **single-use** and expires after about **15 minutes**. If it
has expired or been used, just generate a new one. This way no long-lived
secret ends up in your clipboard or a chat log.

## Verify the connection

Once the Outpost is paired **and started**, its status in meinGPT changes from **Not connected** to **Connected**.

If meinGPT keeps saying "not connected", you check that on the Outpost machine, not here: the status bar at the bottom left has to read `Running`, and the **Connection** tab has a network check that tells you what is wrong. → [Console & operations](/en/docs/integrations/vault/operations)

## Multiple Outposts

An organization can run more than one Outpost — for example, one for production and a second as a staging or second-site instance. Data pools are assigned to a specific Outpost, not to the organization as a whole — so when you create a data pool, choose which Outpost it runs on.

By default, an organization may register only **one** Outpost; a further registration attempt is refused, though any existing Outposts keep running unaffected. If you need more than one, contact meinGPT — we raise the limit for you. Each additional Outpost gets its own ID and secret (or its own pairing code) when you create it, and shows up as its own entry in the Outpost list under **Company Settings → Outposts**. To add it, just repeat the steps above under ["Create your Outpost"](#create-your-outpost) with a new, distinguishable name.

## Next steps

**Outpost created.** Now release folders on the machine. Services only appear
when the separate preview is enabled for the workspace.

### [Set up an Outpost](/en/docs/integrations/vault/deployment)

Prepare the machine, install, pair, release folders.

### [Connect your first folder](/en/docs/integrations/vault/sources/local)

Share the folder on the machine, adopt it in meinGPT.