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Team & collaboration

You can invite other people to work on your projects. Collaboration happens per project — there are no Teams or Organizations above the project level. You invite specific people to specific projects, and you stay in control of who can do what.

Roles​

Each project has two roles:

  • Owner — the person who created the project. There's exactly one owner per project. The owner can invite and remove members, control AI access, and (of course) edit the project. AI usage on the project is billed to the owner.
  • Editor — anyone the owner invites. Editors can open the project, chat with the AI (subject to the owner's AI access policy), and edit files. Editors can't invite other people or change settings.

There aren't multiple owners. If you need someone else to manage a project fully, talk to them directly — for now, ownership stays with the original creator.

Inviting someone​

Open your project and find the Members panel. As the owner you'll see an Invite Member button. Selecting it opens a small dialog:

  • Email — the email address of the person you're inviting. They'll receive an email with a link to accept.
  • Grant AI access (when applicable) — a toggle that controls whether this invitee will be able to use AI on the project as soon as they accept. It's on by default. See AI access below for the bigger picture.

Select Send Invite. The invitee appears under Pending Invites in the Members panel until they accept.

To cancel an invitation that hasn't been accepted yet, find it under Pending Invites and revoke it.

Accepting an invitation​

The invitee receives an email with an Accept link. Selecting it brings them to a Project Invitation page in Studio showing:

  • the project name,
  • who invited them,
  • their role (Editor), and
  • when the invitation expires.

They select Accept to join. After accepting, they get a Go to Studio button that takes them straight into the project.

A few practical notes:

  • They need a Studio account. If they don't have one, they'll be asked to sign up first.
  • The email must match. They must be signed in with the same email the invitation was sent to. If they sign in with a different account, Studio asks them to switch.
  • Invitations expire. If an invitation goes stale, just send a new one.

AI access​

By default, only the owner can use AI on a project. As the owner, you choose how broadly to open that up using the AI Access section of the Members panel.

There are three policies:

  • Owner Only — only you can use AI on this project. Editors can still open the project and edit files, but the chat is yours alone.
  • Selected Members — you choose, per editor, who can use AI. The Members list shows a toggle next to each editor.
  • All Members — every editor can use AI on this project.

When you invite someone and leave the Grant AI access toggle on, Studio automatically promotes the policy from Owner Only to Selected Members for you (with the new invitee granted access). You're never put into a state you didn't choose.

Who gets billed for AI?​

Always the project owner, regardless of which editor sent the message. A team member's AI use comes out of your balance (on Managed) or runs on your keys (on BYOK). This is a deliberate trade-off — collaboration is easy because invitees don't need their own Studio plan to contribute, but you should pick your collaborators with the same care you'd pick your co-author.

If you want to limit a particular editor's AI use, switch to Selected Members and turn their toggle off — they keep editor access but can no longer spend your balance.

Removing a member​

In the Members list, the owner sees a remove control next to each editor. Removing is immediate — the editor loses access to the project on their next request. You can re-invite them later if you change your mind.

You can't remove yourself from a project you own. If you want to step away entirely, the project needs to come with you (ownership doesn't transfer right now); contact support if you need to migrate ownership.

What invitees see​

Editors see almost the same Studio that owners do — the file panel, the preview, the AI chat. What's hidden from them is the Invite Member control, the AI Access policy controls, and the per-member toggle list. If the policy is Owner Only or their Selected toggle is off, the chat input is disabled with a brief note explaining why.

Editors are billed nothing for the project they're invited to. Their own Studio plan (if any) is independent — Managed/BYOK/Dedicated applies to projects they own, not ones they're invited to.

No team-level entity​

Studio doesn't currently have an Organizations or Teams layer above projects. Everything is per-project: invitations, roles, AI access. If you've invited the same person to several projects, they have to manage each separately on their side too.

Next​

  • Plans — your plan governs the AI billing model that applies to your invitees' usage.
  • How AI usage is billed — understanding what an invitee's AI use will cost you.