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User Roles and Permissions in The Swarm

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Written by Olivier Roth
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When inviting new Users to your team, you decide what permissions they have.

Each User’s role defines what they can view, manage, or edit — and can be changed anytime by an Owner or Admin.


👥 User Roles

Role

Description

Permissions

Owner

The person who creates and manages the team workspace.

  • Manage billing and subscriptions

  • Invite, edit, or remove Users and Connectors

  • View all relationships and lists

  • Create, edit, and delete any list

  • Send intro requests

  • Delete the team

Admin

Manages users, connectors, and workspace settings.

  • Manage billing

  • Invite, edit, or remove Users and Connectors

  • View all relationships and lists

  • Create, edit, and delete any list

  • Save searches for all lists

  • Send intro requests

Contributor

Can actively build and explore the network but not manage others.

  • View all relationships

  • Create, edit, and delete lists

  • Save searches for their own lists

  • Send intro requests

  • 🚫 Cannot add or manage Users or Connectors and their groups

Guest

Read-only or limited contributor role, ideal for lightweight collaboration.

  • View and edit their own lists

  • Save searches for their own lists

  • Send intro requests

  • 🚫 Cannot manage Users or Connectors

  • 🚫 Cannot view other Guests’ connections

  • 🚫 Cannot access private contact details.

🔗 Connectors

Connectors are people (inside or outside your team) whose professional information helps The Swarm map relationships in your network.

They don’t have roles or permissions because they don’t sign up or access your workspace.

How Connectors work:

  • Added via LinkedIn URLs

  • Never notified or invited — they remain external references.

  • Used by the AI Network Mapper to find shared work overlaps, education overlaps, or shared investor overlaps.

  • Do not include LinkedIn 1st-degree connections — those are added only by Users through connected data sources.

  • Cannot receive intro requests or be converted into User roles.

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