---
updatedAt: 2026-05-28T20:32:37.000Z
agentTools:
  projectIndex: https://docs.salussafety.io/llms.txt
---

# Create a Project

Create a project.

This creates a project and automatically adds company owners as users to that project.

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "SALUS Developer API",
    "version": "0.11.69"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://developer.beta.salussafety.io"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/v1/project/": {
      "post": {
        "tags": [
          "Projects"
        ],
        "summary": "Create a Project",
        "description": "Create a project.\n\nThis creates a project and automatically adds company owners as users to that project.",
        "operationId": "create_project_v1_project__post",
        "security": [
          {
            "HTTPBearer": []
          },
          {
            "OAuth2ClientCredentialsBearer": []
          },
          {
            "OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer": []
          }
        ],
        "requestBody": {
          "required": true,
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProjectCreateModel"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "Successful Response",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiGenericResponse_UnifiedProjectDetailModel_"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "400": {
            "description": "Business Logic Error",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiGenericResponse_ErrorDetail_"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "403": {
            "description": "Permission Error",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiGenericResponse_ErrorDetail_"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "409": {
            "description": "Integrity Error or Data Conflict",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ApiGenericResponse_ErrorDetail_"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "422": {
            "description": "Validation Error",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError"
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "schemas": {
      "ApiGenericResponse_ErrorDetail_": {
        "properties": {
          "error": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Error Indicator",
            "description": "A boolean error indicator.",
            "default": false
          },
          "message": {
            "title": "Response Message",
            "description": "Optional message.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "data": {
            "title": "Response Data",
            "description": "The response data for any given request.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ErrorDetail",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "title": "ApiGenericResponse[ErrorDetail]"
      },
      "ApiGenericResponse_UnifiedProjectDetailModel_": {
        "properties": {
          "error": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Error Indicator",
            "description": "A boolean error indicator.",
            "default": false
          },
          "message": {
            "title": "Response Message",
            "description": "Optional message.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "data": {
            "title": "Response Data",
            "description": "The response data for any given request.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/UnifiedProjectDetailModel",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "title": "ApiGenericResponse[UnifiedProjectDetailModel]"
      },
      "ErrorDetail": {
        "properties": {
          "requestPath": {
            "title": "Request Path",
            "description": "The path of the request that generated the error.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "requestMethod": {
            "title": "Request HTTP Method",
            "description": "The HTTP method of the request that generated the error.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "errorType": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "The Error Type that Occurred",
            "description": "The type of error that occurred, broadly it can be 'Database', 'BusinessLogic', or 'Permissions`"
          },
          "errorTypeDetail": {
            "title": "Errortypedetail",
            "description": "If available, an additional categorization of the error that occurred.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "errorDetail": {
            "title": "Errordetail",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "errorType"
        ],
        "title": "ErrorDetail",
        "description": "Generic error detail object that the API will return where errors are encountered. Details will be extracted to\nmake error processing more straight forward."
      },
      "HTTPValidationError": {
        "properties": {
          "detail": {
            "items": {
              "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ValidationError"
            },
            "type": "array",
            "title": "Detail"
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "title": "HTTPValidationError"
      },
      "ProjectCompanyDetailsModel": {
        "properties": {
          "externalId": {
            "title": "External System Identifier",
            "description": "The unique identifier used by an external system, can be used to support integration.",
            "examples": [
              "100123"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "externalSystemName": {
            "title": "External System Name",
            "description": "The name of the external system that the external_id field belongs to.",
            "examples": [
              "Procore"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "isArchived": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Is Archived",
            "description": "Indicates that a project has been archived for this company.",
            "examples": [
              false
            ]
          },
          "udf1": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 1",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Canada Division"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf2": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 2",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "BC Division"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf3": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 3",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Eli's team"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "displayName": {
            "title": "Display Name",
            "description": "The display name for a project that can be customized per company working on a project.",
            "examples": [
              "Company Prefix - Project Name"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "accountingName": {
            "title": "Accounting System Name",
            "description": "The project name as it's represented in the accounting or financial system, in case it's different from the main project name.",
            "examples": [
              "ACCT-SYS-01-PRJ-NAME"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "jobNumber": {
            "title": "Job Number",
            "description": "Optional specifier for an external project number.",
            "examples": [
              "001-PRJ-NAME"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteClass": {
            "title": "Site Class",
            "description": "The project site class.",
            "examples": [
              "Site Class"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "description": {
            "title": "Description",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "nearestHospital": {
            "title": "Nearest Hospital",
            "description": "Name of the nearest hospital to the site",
            "examples": [
              "Vancouver General Hospital"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "nearestClinic": {
            "title": "Nearest Clinic",
            "description": "Name of the nearest medical clinic to the site",
            "examples": [
              "Alberni Medical Clinic"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "firstAidAttendant": {
            "title": "First Aid Attendant",
            "description": "Name of the first aid attendant for the site",
            "examples": [
              "Jane Doe"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkOne": {
            "title": "Site link 1",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkTwo": {
            "title": "Site link 2",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkThree": {
            "title": "Site link 3",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf1Label": {
            "title": "Label for User Defined Field 1",
            "description": "Label for the customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Division"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf2Label": {
            "title": "Label for User Defined Field 2",
            "description": "Label for the customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Subdivision"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf3Label": {
            "title": "Label for User Defined Field 3",
            "description": "Label for the customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Team"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "externalId",
          "externalSystemName",
          "isArchived",
          "displayName",
          "accountingName",
          "jobNumber",
          "siteClass",
          "description",
          "nearestHospital",
          "nearestClinic",
          "firstAidAttendant",
          "siteLinkOne",
          "siteLinkTwo",
          "siteLinkThree"
        ],
        "title": "ProjectCompanyDetailsModel",
        "description": "Full version of company-specific project details"
      },
      "ProjectCompanyPatchModel": {
        "properties": {
          "externalId": {
            "title": "External System Identifier",
            "description": "The unique identifier used by an external system, can be used to support integration.",
            "examples": [
              "100123"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "externalSystemName": {
            "title": "External System Name",
            "description": "The name of the external system that the external_id field belongs to.",
            "examples": [
              "Procore"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "isArchived": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Is Archived",
            "description": "Indicates if the company wants to archive the site.",
            "default": false
          },
          "displayName": {
            "title": "Display Name",
            "description": "The display name for a project that can be customized per company working on a project.",
            "examples": [
              "Company Prefix - Project Name"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "accountingName": {
            "title": "Accounting System Name",
            "description": "The project name as it's represented in the accounting or financial system, in case it's different from the main project name.",
            "examples": [
              "ACCT-SYS-01-PRJ-NAME"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "jobNumber": {
            "title": "Job Number",
            "description": "Optional specifier for an external project number.",
            "examples": [
              "001-PRJ-NAME"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteClass": {
            "title": "Site Class",
            "description": "The project site class.",
            "examples": [
              "Site Class"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "description": {
            "title": "Description",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "nearestHospital": {
            "title": "Nearest Hospital",
            "description": "Name of the nearest hospital to the site",
            "examples": [
              "Vancouver General Hospital"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "nearestClinic": {
            "title": "Nearest Clinic",
            "description": "Name of the nearest medical clinic to the site",
            "examples": [
              "Alberni Medical Clinic"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "firstAidAttendant": {
            "title": "First Aid Attendant",
            "description": "Name of the first aid attendant for the site",
            "examples": [
              "Jane Doe"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkOne": {
            "title": "Site link 1",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkTwo": {
            "title": "Site link 2",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteLinkThree": {
            "title": "Site link 3",
            "description": "Any additional links for the site",
            "examples": [
              "https://example.com"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf1": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 1",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Canada Division"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf2": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 2",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "BC Division"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "udf3": {
            "title": "User Defined Field 3",
            "description": "Field for storing customer-defined metadata about the site",
            "examples": [
              "Eli's team"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "title": "ProjectCompanyPatchModel",
        "description": "Company specific project details that can optionally be updated"
      },
      "ProjectCreateModel": {
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Project Name",
            "description": "The name of the project.",
            "examples": [
              "The Project Name"
            ]
          },
          "address": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Address",
            "description": "The address of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "123 Somewhere Ave"
            ]
          },
          "city": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "City",
            "description": "The city of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "Vancouver"
            ]
          },
          "country": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Country",
            "description": "The country of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "Canada"
            ]
          },
          "timezone": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Timezone",
            "description": "The timezone associated with the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "America/Vancouver"
            ]
          },
          "phone": {
            "title": "Main Phone",
            "description": "The main phone number associated with the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "16045551234"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "longitude": {
            "title": "Longitude",
            "description": "The longitude of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              35.89421911
            ],
            "type": "number",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "latitude": {
            "title": "Latitude",
            "description": "The latitude of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              139.94637467
            ],
            "type": "number",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "musterPoint": {
            "title": "Muster Point",
            "description": "The muster point for the project site.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "isPrivate": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Is Private",
            "description": "Indicates that a project is private.",
            "default": true,
            "examples": [
              true
            ]
          },
          "geoCheckInEnabled": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Enable geo check-in",
            "description": "Enable or disable having workers get automatically checked in and out of the site based on their location",
            "default": true,
            "examples": [
              true,
              false
            ]
          },
          "companyProject": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProjectCompanyPatchModel",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "name",
          "address",
          "city",
          "country",
          "timezone",
          "companyProject"
        ],
        "title": "ProjectCreateModel",
        "description": "Model for creating a project. Includes info for both project and company-project"
      },
      "UnifiedProjectDetailModel": {
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "title": "Identifier",
            "description": "Unique internal project identifier.",
            "examples": [
              123
            ],
            "type": "integer",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "name": {
            "title": "Name",
            "description": "The project name.",
            "examples": [
              "The Project Name"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "address": {
            "title": "Address",
            "description": "The address of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "123 Somewhere Ave"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "city": {
            "title": "City",
            "description": "The city of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "Vancouver"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "country": {
            "title": "Country",
            "description": "The country of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "Canada"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "timezone": {
            "title": "Timezone",
            "description": "The timezone associated with the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "America/Vancouver"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "phone": {
            "title": "Main Phone",
            "description": "The main phone number associated with the project site.",
            "examples": [
              "16045551234"
            ],
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "longitude": {
            "title": "Longitude",
            "description": "The longitude of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              35.89421911
            ],
            "type": "number",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "latitude": {
            "title": "Latitude",
            "description": "The latitude of the project site.",
            "examples": [
              139.94637467
            ],
            "type": "number",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "siteCode": {
            "title": "Site Code",
            "description": "Unique 5 digit site code generated by the system.",
            "examples": [
              54231
            ],
            "type": "integer",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "musterPoint": {
            "title": "Muster Point",
            "description": "The muster point for the project site.",
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "isPrivate": {
            "title": "Is Private",
            "description": "Indicates that a project is private.",
            "examples": [
              true
            ],
            "type": "boolean",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "geoCheckInEnabled": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "title": "Enable geo check-in",
            "description": "Enable or disable having workers get automatically checked in and out of the site based on their location",
            "default": true,
            "examples": [
              true,
              false
            ]
          },
          "updatedAt": {
            "title": "Updated At",
            "description": "The time stamp of the last time the field was updated.",
            "type": "string",
            "format": "date-time",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "createdAt": {
            "title": "Created At",
            "description": "The time stamp when the record was created.",
            "type": "string",
            "format": "date-time",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "companyProject": {
            "title": "Company Project info",
            "description": "Information for the project that can be different for each company on the project",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProjectCompanyDetailsModel",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "title": "UnifiedProjectDetailModel"
      },
      "ValidationError": {
        "properties": {
          "loc": {
            "items": {
              "anyOf": [
                {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                {
                  "type": "integer"
                }
              ]
            },
            "type": "array",
            "title": "Location"
          },
          "msg": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Message"
          },
          "type": {
            "type": "string",
            "title": "Error Type"
          }
        },
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "loc",
          "msg",
          "type"
        ],
        "title": "ValidationError"
      }
    },
    "securitySchemes": {
      "HTTPBearer": {
        "type": "http",
        "description": "Used for authentication using the _classic_ authorization protocol flow, against the Core API. \n\n",
        "scheme": "bearer"
      },
      "OAuth2ClientCredentialsBearer": {
        "type": "oauth2",
        "description": "Used for authentication using the _credentials_grant_ OAuth protocol flow.",
        "flows": {
          "clientCredentials": {
            "scopes": {
              "sls:idn": "Request Salus identity information."
            },
            "tokenUrl": "https://guardian.beta.salussafety.io/token"
          }
        }
      },
      "OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer": {
        "type": "oauth2",
        "description": "Used for authentication using the _authorization_code_ OAuth protocol flow.",
        "flows": {
          "authorizationCode": {
            "refreshUrl": "https://guardian.beta.salussafety.io/token",
            "scopes": {
              "sls:idn": "Request Salus identity information."
            },
            "authorizationUrl": "https://guardian.beta.salussafety.io/authorize",
            "tokenUrl": "https://guardian.beta.salussafety.io/token"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "Projects",
      "description": "\nEndpoints for interacting with projects\n\nProjects generally represent physical locations. In construction verticals they are commonly construction sites, and have a unique address. Generally the address is also translated to longitude and latitude coordinates to enable geofencing and other features related to the physical location of the site.\n"
    }
  ]
}
```