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Chat visibility

Decide who can see members' chat threads — and who you delegate that oversight to.

A workspace has to answer a question most tools duck: can colleagues see each other's conversations with the AI? There's no universally right answer — a two-partner firm and a regulated in-house team want opposite things — so it's a setting the owner makes deliberately.

By the end you'll have chosen a visibility policy and know who it applies to.

This is for the workspace owner, under Settings → General.

The three policies

PolicyWho sees what
OpenEvery member can see every member's chats.
Owner onlyMembers see only their own. The owner sees all.
PrivateMembers see only their own, plus chats explicitly shared with them.

The owner always retains oversight — that's fixed. What the setting controls is how far it extends beyond them.

Delegating oversight

To let managers see others' chats too, grant the Chats → View all permission in Roles. This is worth doing consciously rather than as part of a general "managers can do more" sweep: it's the one permission that lets one colleague read another's working notes.

Where it shows up

Anyone allowed to browse others' chats gets a Mine / Workspace toggle on the History page. The sidebar's recent list always stays personal, so the day-to-day view never becomes someone else's work.

Shared chat links are organization-only — opening one requires being an authenticated member of that chat's workspace. A link that leaks outside the firm doesn't grant access.

Tell people which policy you've chosen. Oversight nobody knows about reads as surveillance when it's discovered; oversight that was announced reads as governance.