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title: Teams
description: The three kinds of people in an Ali workspace — members, the project team, and guests — and what each one can reach.
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Ali has no separate "teams" object to configure. Access is decided in three places instead, and each one answers a different question.

| Who | Decided in | What they get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Workspace members | Settings → Members & seats | An account in the workspace, with a role |
| The project team | The project's **Members** field | The people you can assign that project's tasks to |
| Guests | **Share**, on a project | A read-only view of the boards you picked |

Most of the time you only touch the first one. The second matters when a studio runs several clients with different people on each, and the third is for when the client themselves wants to look.

## Members and roles

A member is somebody with an account in your workspace. They take a seat on your plan, they sign in with their own email, and they carry one of three roles.

| Role | What it can do |
| --- | --- |
| Owner | Everything, plus the things you do once: the workspace itself |
| Admin | Manages members, billing and every project |
| Member | Works on the projects they are added to |

Roles are about the workspace, not about a single project. [Members and roles](/teams/members) covers inviting, seats and removal.

## The project team

Every project carries a list of members, set in the project form. That list is what the assignee picker reads from, so adding somebody to a project is what makes them assignable on its tasks.

![The members picker on a project](/images/teams/project-members.webp)

It is an ordinary field: open the project, **Edit project**, change the list, save.

## Guests

A guest is somebody without an account: the client, a freelancer, a stakeholder who wants to watch. They get a sign-in link by email and see the boards you picked, read only.

![The share dialog, with the boards and the guest list](/images/teams/share.webp)

Guests do not take a seat, cannot edit anything, and cannot comment or open files. [Guests and shared projects](/teams/guests) covers the whole flow.

## Where to go next

**[Members and roles](/teams/members)**

Invitations, seats, roles, and removing somebody.

**[Guests and shared projects](/teams/guests)**

Share a board with a client, with an expiry date.

**[Create a project](/projects/create)**

Where the project team is set.

**[Permissions](/mcp/permissions)**

What a token, a connection or an agent may touch, which is a separate question.