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title: Default flows
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When you create a new provider, you can select certain default flows that will be used with the provider and its associated application. For example, you can [create a flow](../index.md#create-a-flow) that overrides the defaults configured on the brand.

If no default flow is selected when the provider is created, authentik will first check if there is a default flow configured in the active [**Brand**](../../../../sys-mgmt/brands/index.md). If no default is configured there, authentik will go through all flows with the matching designation, sorted by `slug`, evaluate policies bound directly to the flows, and pick the first flow whose policies allow access.

import DefaultFlowList from "../../flow/flow_list/\_defaultflowlist.mdx";

<DefaultFlowList />
