A Space is public or private, and everyone in it can post.
There is no third privacy level, Spaces do not sit inside one another, and no member of a Space has a different right to post than any other member of it. Membership is the whole control, which is why you can explain it to a new manager in a sentence.
Spaces, chat, the directory and access codes are on every plan. Only the number of Spaces changes.
- Members96
- Posts52
- Chat thread1
Every one of the 96 can post here, and every one of them is in the chat thread. Adding somebody is the whole of granting them access.
It finds a person you can already name.
A profile carries a job title, a department and who somebody reports to. The search box reads none of them, only the display name, which is why one of these two searches returns a person and the other returns nothing.
Laura KentWard lead, Nursing
- Display nameLaura KentSearched
- Job titleWard leadNot searched
- DepartmentNursingNot searched
- Reports toDr Tessa PalmerNot searched
SearchLaura Kent
Laura KentWard lead, Nursing
Searchpayroll
No results. Search matches a person’s display name, not their job title, department or email.
A person is found by the name you already know. Anything else about them is on their profile once you are there, rather than in the search box.
Three people, and what each of them gets.
- Laura KentWard lead, Nursing
Runs the Nursing Space: who is in it, and what is pinned. Adding somebody is the whole of granting them access.
Space Admin - Simon NaylorRegistered nurse
Joins the Space and is in its chat thread without doing anything else, and can post in it like everyone else who is in it.
- Zoe MitchellPorter
Has no company email. Joins with a single-use code issued in her name and her own phone, then appears in the directory like anybody else.
Five things, and the plan each one needs.
- Spaces, public or private
Departments, projects and interest groups, each with its own members and pinned posts. Public means anyone in the workspace can see it whether or not they are a member; private means only its members can.
Every plan - The employee directory
A profile for each person with a photo, a bio, a job title, a department and who they report to, searchable by name.
Every plan - Joining without a company email
A worker with no mailbox joins with an access code issued in their name and confirms their own phone number by one-time SMS.
Every plan - Chat, and the thread that follows the Space
One-to-one direct messages, multi-person group conversations, and a chat thread attached to each Space whose membership follows the Space itself, so joining or leaving adds or removes you from the conversation.
Every plan - How many Spaces
Five active Spaces on Spark, twenty-five on Command, and no limit on HQ. The cap counts active Spaces, and archiving one frees a slot without deleting its posts.
Spark 5 · Command 25 · HQ no limit
What a Space will not do.
Every line here traces to something in the code, including the parts it would be easier to leave out.
- Two privacy levels, not three
A Space is public or private. There is no third, quieter level for the things people usually ask a third level for, and this page will not imply one exists.
- Everyone in a Space can post in it
There is no author role, no read-only member and no per-person posting permission inside a Space. If somebody should not be posting there, the answer is that they should not be in it.
- Spaces do not nest
A Space cannot sit inside another Space. A department with six wards is six Spaces, or one, and not one containing six.
- The directory finds names, not roles
Search matches a person’s display name only, not their job title, department or email. It answers “where is Laura Kent” and it does not answer “who runs payroll”.
- Chat is the one thing not in Postgres
Chat runs on Firestore and is the only part of the product that does, so it is the one surface where the data-residency and retention story differs from the PostgreSQL core. How far back chat goes depends on the plan: thirty days on Spark, ninety on Command, three hundred and sixty-five on HQ.
- A Space thread can drift from its Space
Membership is meant to follow the Space, and it can fall out of step. There is an admin route to reconcile it, and lifecycle work such as archiving a thread when its Space is archived is not built yet.
What membership decides next.
- AnnouncementsA Space decides who sees a post. An announcement decides whether the people who see it have to confirm they did.
- Admin and governanceA role decides what somebody can administer. Space membership decides what they can see, and the two are different questions.
- Knowledge HubArticles are filed by category rather than by Space, so the Hub is one library for the whole workspace instead of one per team.
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Request early access- Every planSpaces, chat, the directory and access codes.
- Two levelsA Space is public or private. There is no third.
- Spark 5Command 25, HQ no limit. Archiving frees a slot.