# Create a new workspace

A workspace is one documentation site: its own collections and pages, its own theme, its own URL and its own access rules. You create workspaces from the workspaces list – the page you land on when you sign in to Dewstack – and there are three routes: a template, a document you already have, or a description of what you want.

How many workspaces you can have depends on your plan; the numbers are in [Limits and plan requirements](#limits-and-plan-requirements) at the bottom of this page.

## Start from a template

Under the **Templates** heading is a carousel of cards. The first two are **Create template using AI** and **Create from scratch**; after them comes the template library – twelve fully written starting points:

**SOP Handbook**, **User Manual**, **Knowledge Base**, **FAQ**, **Internal Handbook**, **Troubleshooting Playbook**, **Incident Response Runbook**, **Release Notes & Changelog**, **Documentation Audit Checklist**, **Documentation Migration Checklist**, **Project Kickoff Checklist** and **Risk Assessment Matrix**.

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dstack/image/upload/v1786093126/template-picker-carousel_tb9vbd.png)The Templates carousel: Create using AI  
  and Create from scratch, followed by the twelve written templates

  

Each library card is a real, populated site – around a dozen written pages per template, not an empty outline. One click provisions the whole workspace and opens it in the editor; there is no dialog to fill in first. You edit what does not apply rather than starting from a blank page.

**Create from scratch** ("Get started with a blank template") is different: it opens the **New Workspace** dialog where you enter a **Name**, choose **Public** or **Private**, and click **Next** to get an empty workspace.

A template only seeds the starting collections and pages – everything in it is yours to rewrite.

**Private** is locked with a padlock unless you have a paid subscription or an active trial. You are not stuck with the choice – visibility is changeable later under [Hosting & Visibility](/docs/hosting/access-and-content-sharing).

## Build a workspace from a document you already have

The banner at the top of the workspaces page – **"Convert Documents to Smart Documentation"** – turns an existing document into a full workspace. Dewstack extracts the text and the images, groups the content into collections and pages, and hands you the result in the editor.

This flow always creates a _new_ workspace. If you want the same document folded into a workspace you already have, use [Import content](/docs/understand-workspaces/import-content) instead.

## Generate a template from a description

**Create template using AI** – the first card in the Templates carousel – is the other AI flow, and it is a different thing: it produces a structured workspace based on what you say you're writing, rather than from a file you upload.

The **Create Template with AI** dialog has three steps:

1.  **Step 1: Select a Documentation Type.** Pick from the dropdown – User Manual, Technical Documentation, Knowledge Base, Software Documentation, FAQs, Troubleshooting Guide, Installation Guide, Standard Operating Procedure, Employee Handbook, Process Documentation, Product Documentation, Project Documentation – or choose **Other** and type your own.
2.  **Step 2: Provide details about its purpose.** A free-text box, and optional. The more you describe your product and audience, the more specific the generated structure is.
3.  **Step 3: Provide Workspace details.** Name and access, then **Create Template**.

## Limits and plan requirements

Your workspace count is checked before anything is created – both in the dashboard, where the create cards are replaced with an upgrade panel at the limit, and by the server, which refuses creation past the limit with _"Your plan allows N workspaces. Upgrade to create more."_

| Plan | Workspaces |
| --- | --- |
| No subscription | 1 |
| Starter, and any active trial | 3 |
| Pro | 10 |
| Premium, Enterprise | Unlimited |

One other gate applies on this page: **Private** workspaces require a paid subscription or an active trial, in every dialog that offers the choice.

## Related

 [Your workspace interface The three-column editor and what each part controls.](/docs/understand-workspaces/workspace-interface)   [Subscription Plans, invoices, seats and cancellation.](/docs/account-settings/subscription)