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 If the user arrives through directory provisioning and belongs to a group you have mapped to a specific tier on the [Group mappings](/docs/government/org-admin/provisioning) page, that mapping takes precedence and the user is placed on the mapped tier if a seat is available.
 
-Otherwise the system walks through all of your tiers, both Anthropic-managed and self-managed, in sort order (lowest first) and places the user on the first tier that has a free seat. Self-managed tiers may or may not have a seat limit, depending on how they were allocated. A user is left **Unassigned** only when every tier that has a seat allocation is full. An unassigned user has no model access until an owner assigns them a seat manually on the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page or until more seats become available.
+Otherwise the system walks through all of your tiers, both Anthropic-managed and self-managed, in sort order (lowest first) and places the user on the first tier that has a free seat. Self-managed tiers may or may not have a seat limit, depending on how they were allocated. A user is left **Unassigned** when every tier that has a seat allocation is full, or when your organization has not been allocated any seats yet. An unassigned user has no model access.
 
+Automatic placement happens when a user first arrives. A user who is already **Unassigned** gets a seat tier in one of these ways:
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+* An owner chooses one for them on the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page. A tenant administrator can do the same from your organization's admin view.
+* Your organization receives its first seat allocation. Members without a seat tier are seated automatically from the new seats at that moment, Primary Owners first and in the same tier order as above, provided nobody in the organization already holds a seat. Anyone still without a seat tier afterwards, for example because there were more members than seats, needs an owner to choose one for them on the Users page. Later allocation changes do not repeat this, so a user you deliberately leave unassigned stays that way.
+* The user arrived through directory provisioning and belongs to a group that is mapped to a tier. The next sync seats them once the mapped tier has a free seat, as described on the [Group mappings](/docs/government/org-admin/provisioning) page.
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 <Tip>
   If you see an Anthropic-managed tier whose **Assigned** count equals its **Limit**, new users cannot land on it automatically. Either increase the allocation on the [Billing](/docs/government/org-admin/billing) page, move existing users to a different tier to free seats, or ask a tenant administrator to add seats.
 </Tip>
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 ## Things to know
 
 * The **Assigned** count includes only active users. When a user is deactivated, their seat is released immediately and becomes available for someone else.
-* Changing a tier's limit on the Billing page does not move any users. If you lower a limit, you must first move enough users off the tier so the assigned count fits within the new limit, because the system will not let you reduce an allocation below the number of people currently seated on it.
+* Changing a tier's limit on the Billing page does not move anyone who already holds a seat. If you lower a limit, you must first move enough users off the tier so the assigned count fits within the new limit, because the system will not let you reduce an allocation below the number of people currently seated on it.
 * The sort order that controls automatic assignment is managed on the [Tiers](/docs/government/org-admin/seat-tiers) page. Anthropic-managed tiers have a fixed order set by Anthropic, and self-managed tiers sort wherever their sort order number places them relative to the managed ones.
 

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 This step lets you give each organization seats and, optionally, a spend cap.
 
-Seats control how many people in each organization can use Claude. The table shows each organization with a seat-count field for the first seat tier. Enter the number of seats each organization should have and save. For per-tier control, use the full [Seats](/docs/government/tenant-admin/seats) page after setup.
+Seats control how many people in each organization can use Claude. The table shows each organization with a seat-count field for the first seat tier. Enter the number of seats each organization should have and save. Saving an organization's first seats also seats its Primary Owner, and anyone else already in it who has no seat tier, automatically. For per-tier control, use the full [Seats](/docs/government/tenant-admin/seats) page after setup.
 
 Each organization's usage spends directly from its billing account's balance, and you can add a spend cap to limit how much any one organization can use in a rolling window. Caps are optional. If you leave them blank, the billing account's balance is the only limit. You can adjust both seats and caps later from the tenant [Seats](/docs/government/tenant-admin/seats) and [Billing](/docs/government/tenant-admin/credits) pages.
 

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 ## Troubleshooting
 
-| What you see                                                                                                                | Likely cause                                                                                                                                                                                          | What to do                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| Only the claude.ai sign-in screen; no organization option                                                                   | The configuration never reached the app: the profile was not delivered, a key name is misspelled, the value is in the wrong location or registry type, or the app was not relaunched after the change | Verify delivery in your management console, generate a diagnostic report and check its Configuration section, then fully quit and reopen the app                                   |
-| Sign-in times out, or the browser says the code expired                                                                     | The app stops waiting after about five minutes                                                                                                                                                        | Cancel and start sign-in again; a fresh code is issued                                                                                                                             |
-| The diagnostic report or `main.log` shows "Managed configuration is invalid; local settings are disabled until it is fixed" | The app detected a managed profile but could not read any of its values                                                                                                                               | Correct the profile and redeploy; the report's Configuration section names each key that failed                                                                                    |
-| Signed in, but the model picker is empty                                                                                    | The user has no seat tier, or none of the tier's models is available in Claude for Government                                                                                                         | Have an organization owner check the user's seat on the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page and the tier's models on the [Seat tiers](/docs/government/org-admin/seat-tiers) page |
+| What you see                                                                                                                                                                                     | Likely cause                                                                                                                                                                                          | What to do                                                                                                                                                                              |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Only the claude.ai sign-in screen; no organization option                                                                                                                                        | The configuration never reached the app: the profile was not delivered, a key name is misspelled, the value is in the wrong location or registry type, or the app was not relaunched after the change | Verify delivery in your management console, generate a diagnostic report and check its Configuration section, then fully quit and reopen the app                                        |
+| Sign-in times out, or the browser says the code expired                                                                                                                                          | The app stops waiting after about five minutes                                                                                                                                                        | Cancel and start sign-in again; a fresh code is issued                                                                                                                                  |
+| The diagnostic report or `main.log` shows "Managed configuration is invalid; local settings are disabled until it is fixed"                                                                      | The app detected a managed profile but could not read any of its values                                                                                                                               | Correct the profile and redeploy; the report's Configuration section names each key that failed                                                                                         |
+| Signed in, but the model picker is empty, or the app shows a **Configuration can't be used** banner whose **Details** or **Copy report for IT** text says the provider returned no usable models | The user has no seat tier, or none of the tier's models is available in Claude for Government, so the app received an empty model list. Nothing is wrong with the device's configuration              | Have an organization owner check the user's seat tier on the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page and the tier's models on the [Seat tiers](/docs/government/org-admin/seat-tiers) page |
 
 For anything else, the app writes its log to `~/Library/Logs/Claude-3p/main.log` on macOS, `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Claude-3p\logs\main.log` on Windows, and `~/.config/Claude-3p/logs/main.log` on Linux. The log records which configuration keys were read or dropped and why. The diagnostic report from the verification checklist produces a bundle, without conversation content, that you can send to your Anthropic representative.
 

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 ## How seats affect new users
 
-When a new person is placed in an organization (by a routing rule on the [Identity and access](/docs/government/tenant-admin/identity-and-access) page), they're automatically given a seat if one is free. Tiers are filled in a fixed order, so the first tier is filled before the next is started. If every tier the organization has is completely full, the new person is placed in the organization without a seat. They can sign in and see the portal, but cannot send messages to Claude until an owner assigns them a seat or you distribute more seats here.
+When a new person is placed in an organization (by a routing rule on the [Identity and access](/docs/government/tenant-admin/identity-and-access) page), they're automatically given a seat if one is free. Tiers are filled in a fixed order, so the first tier is filled before the next is started. If every tier the organization has is completely full, or the organization has no seats distributed to it yet, the new person is placed in the organization without a seat. They can sign in and see the portal, but cannot send messages to Claude until someone gives them a seat tier. An organization owner can do that on the organization's Users page, and so can you from the organization's admin view.
 
-An organization that has no seat allocation at all is treated as uncapped. New users can join and use Claude, but this is unusual; normally every active organization has at least one tier allocated.
+The first seats you give an organization are also used for the people already in it. If nobody in the organization holds a seat when you save its first allocation, members without a seat tier are seated automatically from those seats, Primary Owners first. This covers an organization that was created with only a Primary Owner and given seats afterwards. Anyone the new seats do not cover stays without a seat tier until an owner assigns one. Later changes to an allocation do not repeat this. They add or remove free seats for new arrivals and for the organization's owners to assign, and directory-provisioned users with a group-to-tier mapping are seated from the added seats on the next sync.
 
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 The new organization appears in the list immediately and you can click through to its organization admin view. A few follow-up steps are usually needed before people can use it:
 
 * Add a routing rule on the [Identity and access](/docs/government/tenant-admin/identity-and-access) page so that the right people are placed in the new organization when they sign in or are provisioned. Until a rule targets the new organization, nobody will land there automatically.
-* Give it seats on the [Seats](/docs/government/tenant-admin/seats) page. A newly created organization starts with no seats distributed to it.
+* Give it seats on the [Seats](/docs/government/tenant-admin/seats) page. A newly created organization starts with no seats distributed to it, so its Primary Owner has no seat tier and cannot use Claude yet. Saving the organization's first seats also seats the Primary Owner, and anyone else already in it without a seat tier, automatically.
 * If you want to limit how much the new organization can spend from its billing account, set a spend cap on it on the [Billing](/docs/government/tenant-admin/credits) page. This is optional. With no cap, the account's balance is the only limit.
 
 > **For organization owners:** Being named the primary owner of a new organization does **not** make you a tenant administrator. Tenant admin access is granted separately on the [Admins](/docs/government/tenant-admin/admins) page.

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 * A **clock** means the step is blocked but you are not the person who can clear it. A line underneath tells you whether it is waiting on Anthropic, on your tenant administrator, or on the owner of a shared billing account.
 * A **hollow circle** is a step still to come. It stays collapsed until the steps ahead of it are cleared.
 
+Below a divider is an **Optional** section. These steps do not stop anyone from using Claude, but the page surfaces them because they usually matter, and each offers its own **Open** button when there is something you can do about it.
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 Use **Refresh** at the top right after you make a change elsewhere to see the updated state without leaving the page.
 
 ## What each check means
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 * **Add credits** checks that the billing account your organization draws from has enough balance to cover at least one request on the cheapest model available to it. Until it does, every message from a user on a self-managed tier is refused. Credit is added to the billing account by Anthropic, so this step shows who to contact: your tenant administrator, or the owner of the organization that manages the shared billing account.
 * **Raise the organization's spend cap** appears when a tenant administrator has set a spend cap on your organization that is lower than the cost of one request on the cheapest model available. Every request from a user on a self-managed tier is refused until the cap is raised or cleared. Only a tenant administrator can change caps, so this step shows **Waiting on your tenant admin**.
 * **Allocate seats** checks that the organization has been allocated at least one seat of any tier. This is advisory. Without an allocation you can still assign tiers to people individually, but anyone who signs in before you do lands without a seat and cannot send messages. **Open Seats** or **Open Billing** takes you to the page where allocations are set, depending on how your billing account is managed. If the shared seat pool is already fully distributed, the step instead explains that the pool needs to be raised and shows who can do that.
+* **Assign seat tiers to members** checks that every active member has a seat tier, because a member without one cannot use Claude. It is advisory and sits under **Optional**, since you may leave someone unassigned on purpose, but it also catches a member left without a seat by mistake, such as a Primary Owner who was added before the organization had any seats. When a seat is free, **Open Users** takes you to the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page, where a member without a seat shows **Unassigned** and you can choose a tier for them. If your organization has no seats at all yet and nobody holds one, those members are seated automatically when seats are first allocated, and the step points to the same place as **Allocate seats**.
 * **Assign a model to your seat tier** checks that at least one seat tier in this organization can actually reach a working model, meaning a model that is enabled, priced, and allowed by a tier whose usage limits are high enough to cover a single request. If no tier qualifies, nobody can send a message regardless of credits or seats. **Open Tiers** takes you to the [Seat tiers](/docs/government/org-admin/seat-tiers) page to add a model or raise a tier's limits. If every tier available to you is Anthropic-managed, only Anthropic can change its model list, so the step shows a waiting state.
 * **Enable a product** checks that at least one Claude product, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Claude for Microsoft 365, is enabled for this organization. This is advisory. With nothing enabled, direct API access still works, but no client application can start. Enable a product on the [Config](/docs/government/org-admin/configuration) page.
 

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 * Each tier's seat count can be at most 100,000.
 
 <Tip>
-  Saving a seat allocation also triggers a directory provisioning sync. If users were previously left unassigned because a tier was full, the sync will now seat them automatically up to the new limit.
+  Saving your organization's first seat allocation also gives seats to members who have no seat tier, Primary Owners first, as long as nobody holds a seat before the save. Saving any allocation also triggers a directory provisioning sync, so provisioned users who were left unassigned because their mapped tier was full are seated up to the new limit. Anyone else stays unassigned until an owner chooses a tier for them on the [Users](/docs/government/org-admin/users) page.
 </Tip>
 

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 Ask your organization's owner to assign you a seat. Once they do, the tier name appears here immediately and you can start using Claude straight away without signing out and back in.
 
-> **For organization owners:** When you view your own profile with no seat, the page links you straight to **Admin → Users** so you can assign yourself one. Owners are not given a seat automatically; administrative access and Claude usage are granted separately, so you must assign a seat to yourself the same way you would for any other user.
+> **For organization owners:** When you view your own profile with no seat, the page links you straight to **Admin → Users** so you can assign yourself one. Being an owner does not give you a seat by itself, because administrative access and Claude usage are granted separately. If your organization has no seats at all yet and nobody in it holds a seat, members without a seat tier are seated automatically when its first seats are allocated, Primary Owners first.