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People & workspaces

Organisations, workspaces and roles

How access is structured, and what each role can do.

The shape

An organisation is the account — the thing that is billed, and the boundary nothing crosses. Inside it are workspaces: teams, departments, campuses, properties. Experiences live in a workspace.

The roles

Each is cumulative — every role can do everything the one below it can.

Role Can
Free Build and publish their own experiences
Individual The above, plus the asset library and themes
Workspace Member Work on the shared experiences in their workspace
Workspace Leader Manage their workspace's members, learners and settings
Organisation Admin Manage every workspace, billing, integrations and org settings

Someone can be a leader in one workspace and a member in another. Their access is worked out per workspace, not once for the account.

  1. FreeBuilds and publishes their own experiences.
  2. IndividualThe above, plus the asset library and themes.
  3. Workspace MemberWorks on the shared experiences in their workspace.
  4. Workspace LeaderRuns a workspace: its members, learners and settings.
  5. Organisation AdminRuns the organisation: every workspace, billing, integrations, settings.
Each rung can do everything the rungs below it can. Somebody can be a leader in one workspace and a member in another, so the rung is worked out per workspace rather than once for the account.

Learners are not a role

Learners are a different kind of membership, not a rung on this ladder. A learner does not get "less than a member" — they get a different surface entirely. Promoting a learner to a member is a deliberate change, not an increment.

That is why a learner never appears on Members, and why nobody on Students has a role beside their name. See The learner roster.

What you cannot reach, you cannot see

An experience in a workspace you have no access to does not appear as a locked row. It is not there at all. That is intentional: telling you something exists is itself information.

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Last updated Sep 7, 2026.