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Organization roles govern access across the organization. They are separate from workspace roles. Use Member as the default. It allows people to invite teammates and create workspaces without granting control over organization-wide access, billing, or security.

First admin

A new organization starts with one person. When Atlan creates the organization, it sends a single invitation, and whoever accepts it becomes the organization’s first Admin. That admin then invites everyone else and chooses each person’s role. To hand the role to someone else, the first admin promotes them in Settings, as described in Change member role.

Organization and workspace access

Changing one does not change the other, except in the organization root: changing someone’s organization role also changes their role there. A person can be an organization Member and a workspace Admin at the same time.

Change member role

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Select Members under Organization.
  3. Find the person.
  4. Select the role control on their row.
  5. Choose Admin or Member. Promoting someone to Admin asks you to confirm with Make admin.
To change several roles at once, select the checkbox next to each person, open Change role, and choose Make admin or Make member. A role every selected person already holds is unavailable. You confirm the change before it applies, and each person’s role is changed separately, so if one change is refused — the last admin, for example — the others still go through. You cannot select or change your own role from this list. Role menu open for Aisha Khan in the Northstar Labs member directory Role changes apply at the organization level. Review the person’s workspace roles separately if their responsibilities are changing.
Keep at least one active organization admin. Promote another member before changing or removing the last admin.

Workspace roles

Compare Admin, Builder, and Viewer access inside a workspace.