> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lighton.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a new company member > This endpoint allows to create a new company member. **Permissions:** - Admin, SysAdmin, Account Manager: can create users for any company - Company Admin: can create users for their own company **Throttling:** 60 requests per minute It is API Key protected and restricted to users with appropriate permissions. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v3.yaml post /api/v3/users openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Paradigm API version: xenial-xerus (v3) description: >- A versatile and adaptable tool designed to integrate Generative AI into your applications servers: - url: https://paradigm.lighton.ai security: [] tags: - name: Agents description: Operations about agents - name: Threads description: Operations about agents conversation threads - name: Tools description: Operations about native tools - name: Models description: Operations about AI models - name: MCP description: Operations about MCP servers - name: Sources description: Operations about sources used by agents conversation threads - name: Artifacts description: Operations about artifacts generated by agents conversation threads - name: Agent description: >- Operations about agents (deprecated). Please use the 'Agents' API component instead. - name: Files description: Operations about files - name: Files Processing description: Operations about files processing - name: Tags description: Operations about tags - name: Workspaces description: Operations about workspaces - name: Users description: Operations about users - name: User Groups description: Operations about user groups - name: Companies description: Operations about companies - name: SCIM description: Operations about SCIM paths: /api/v3/users: post: tags: - Users summary: Create a new company member description: >- This endpoint allows to create a new company member. **Permissions:** - Admin, SysAdmin, Account Manager: can create users for any company - Company Admin: can create users for their own company **Throttling:** 60 requests per minute It is API Key protected and restricted to users with appropriate permissions. operationId: api_v3_users_create requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCompanyMemberRequestSerializerV3' application/x-www-form-urlencoded: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCompanyMemberRequestSerializerV3' multipart/form-data: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCompanyMemberRequestSerializerV3' required: true responses: '201': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanyMemberResponse' description: Company member created successfully '400': description: Invalid input data '401': description: Authentication failed - missing or invalid API key '403': description: Permission denied - insufficient rights to create company members '500': description: Internal server error security: - bearerAuth: [] components: schemas: CreateCompanyMemberRequestSerializerV3: type: object properties: first_name: type: string description: The first name of the user. last_name: type: string description: The last name of the user. email: type: string format: email description: The email address of the user. username: type: string description: >- The username of the user. This value may contain only letters, numbers, and @/./+/-/_ characters. pattern: ^[\w.@+-]+$ company_id: type: integer nullable: true description: The unique identifier of the company. groups: type: array items: type: integer description: List of user group IDs to assign the user to. roles: type: array items: type: integer description: List of role IDs to assign to the user. account_expiration_date: type: string format: date-time description: The account expiration date and time with timezone. language: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Language782Enum' description: |- The preferred language of the user. * `ar` - Arabic * `en` - English * `fr` - French * `de` - German is_active: type: boolean default: false description: Whether the user should be created as active. Defaults to False. required: - email - username CompanyMemberResponse: type: object properties: id: type: integer username: type: string first_name: type: string last_name: type: string email: type: string is_active: type: boolean date_joined: type: string format: date-time account_expiration_date: type: string format: date-time last_login: type: string format: date-time invitation_status: type: string language: type: string company: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanyMemberCompany' roles: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TenantUserRole' groups: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanyMemberGroups' required: - account_expiration_date - company - date_joined - email - first_name - groups - id - invitation_status - is_active - language - last_login - last_name - roles - username Language782Enum: enum: - ar - en - fr - de type: string description: |- * `ar` - Arabic * `en` - English * `fr` - French * `de` - German CompanyMemberCompany: type: object properties: id: type: integer name: type: string required: - id - name TenantUserRole: type: object properties: id: type: integer name: type: string required: - id - name CompanyMemberGroups: type: object properties: id: type: integer name: type: string description: type: string role: type: string category: type: string created_at: type: string format: date-time required: - category - created_at - description - id - name - role securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer `, where `` is your auth token. ````