# Roles and permissions

Every project member has one of three roles: **owner**, **admin**, or **member**. Roles gate the admin surfaces; writing docs is open to everyone on the team.

## What each role can do

| Capability | Owner | Admin | Member |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read docs, insights, and conversations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Connect an AI tool, write and publish articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Project settings (name, subdomain, logo, accent color, support email) | Yes | Yes | No |
| Widget settings and starter questions | Yes | Yes | No |
| Custom domain and subpath hosting | Yes | Yes | No |
| Invite, remove, and change roles of teammates | Yes | Yes | No |
| Transfer ownership | Yes | No | No |
| Delete the project | Yes | No | No |

The same rules apply in the dashboard and through the MCP server: an agent connected by a member can author articles but cannot, for example, change the widget's starter questions.

## Rules worth knowing

- Each project has exactly one owner: the person who created it, unless ownership was transferred.
- Role changes switch between admin and member only. Nobody is promoted to owner by a role change, and nobody can change the owner's role or their own role.
- The owner cannot be removed from the project.

## Transferring ownership

To hand a project to someone else, open **Settings**, then **Danger zone**, and choose Transfer ownership. Pick any teammate; they become the owner and you become an admin.

:::callout{type="warning"}
Ownership matters for AI answers: a project's AI usage draws on its owner's free allowance or OpenAI key. After a transfer, the new owner's key or allowance takes over. See [Bring your own OpenAI key](/articles/bring-your-own-openai-key).
:::

## Deleting a project

Only the owner can delete a project, from the Danger zone. Deletion takes the docs site offline and permanently removes articles, conversations, and settings. There is no undo.

## Related

- [Invite your team](/articles/invite-your-team)
- [Manage your account](/articles/your-account)