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Set up business Macs

How an organization sets up a fixed group of company-owned Macs, checks each one is ready, and keeps approvals separate from personal Mac setup.

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If you manage company-owned Macs for an organization, you set them up the same way as a personal Mac: approve a fixed list, install, then check each Mac is ready. This page covers the additional decisions for business administration, how to roll out and how to check the result. For one personal Mac or several personally-owned Macs, use the ordinary personal setup path.

Decide who and what

Before you install anything, write down:

  • the Macs you approve, as a fixed list;
  • who approves, sets up, runs and recovers them;
  • the Lithi account they join, their working times and time zone, and the version to install.

A management group is not permission for Macs that join it later. Add each new Mac to the approved list yourself. If a Mac belongs to an employee, the employee has to say yes, even when your business manages it.

Choose how to roll out

Use whichever your business already supports:

  • Your AI agent (such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor) can look at the access you already have, draft the rollout plan and carry out the steps you approve. See Use your AI with Lithi Connect.
  • Lithi Connect lets you set up and check Macs by hand in Agent Network → Macs.
  • Provider CLI is for the commands published for your current release.
  • Your device management tool can deliver the signed Lithi package and settings to the approved Macs.

A successful install is not a ready Mac

A Mac moves through five steps:

delivered   your tool sent the package
   ↓
installed   Lithi is on the Mac
   ↓
enrolled    the Mac has its own place in your account
   ↓
qualified   it passed the checks to take work
   ↓
available   it can be given work

Your management tool only tells you about delivery. A green result there does not mean the Mac is enrolled, qualified or available. Each Mac still follows your working times, its pause setting and the normal update path.

Plan the rollout with your agent

If your AI agent helps, ask it to start from the access you already have. It must not weaken Gatekeeper or the firewall, widen a management group, create remote access or copy another Mac's identity to speed things up.

Before you approve, the plan should list:

  • the exact Macs it covers;
  • how they will be delivered;
  • the version to install;
  • the Lithi account and working times;
  • any setting it will change;
  • any step someone still has to do on the Mac itself;
  • how it will check each Mac.

Check every Mac

Open Agent Network → Macs and confirm that each Mac has its own entry and shows the state you expect. A Mac that failed or is still waiting stays visible with its next step. One Mac with a problem does not mean the whole rollout failed.

Roll out in small groups. When the first group works, approve the next group on purpose, and do not stretch the first group to cover it.

Run and remove Macs

Pausing, updating and removing a Mac work as they do for any Mac. See Set up and manage your Macs. IT access and finance access are separate in Lithi. For money, read Earnings and payouts, and for data and control, read Connect privacy and human control.

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