Sign up, confirm your address, and you are in. There is no application to write, no queue, and nobody deciding whether to let you in.
Use whichever address you like
Sign in with Google, or register directly with the Lab if you would rather not. Either way something has to attest that the address is yours before you get access — enough to keep throwaways out, and not much more than that.
A personal address is completely fine, and often the better choice. The point of this Lab is that it sits outside your organisation’s perimeter, so asking you to use your work identity would reintroduce exactly the institutional visibility you may be here to avoid. If you would rather your employer’s SSO logs did not record an outside lab at four in the morning, use a personal address. It changes nothing about what you can do here.
What we ask, and why
Registration asks a little about where you work and what you are trying to build. It is not a gate — you are already in by the time you answer it. It tells us which recipes to write next, and it is how we know whether the Lab is reaching the people it was built for.
What this does not establish
Attesting that you control an inbox is not the same as establishing who you are, and it says nothing about who you work for. Anything you tell us about your employer is taken on trust. That matters later: a credential that says something about you, rather than about an inbox, is one of the things the Lab exists to demonstrate — and knowing what the ordinary sign-up does not prove is a useful baseline before you meet the alternative.