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What Are Co-Managers?

Co-Managers let you give trusted colleagues manager-level access to your worker — without giving up primary management control. Think of it like adding a second keyholder: they can configure the worker, connect their own tools, and manage knowledge, but you stay in control. This is useful when:
  • Multiple people on your team need to configure and maintain the same worker
  • You want a colleague to connect their own tool accounts (e.g., their Gmail or calendar) to a shared worker
  • You’re going on vacation and need someone to manage your worker while you’re away
Co-Managers is available on Standard and Premium plans. Both the primary manager and each co-manager must have their own active Standard or Premium plan. You can add up to 2 co-managers per worker.

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Co-Manager vs. Team Member

These are different levels of access: Team members can interact with a shared worker but can’t change how it works. Co-Managers can configure the worker almost like the primary manager — except they can’t fire it, manage other co-managers, change the worker’s manager, or remove it from teams they don’t belong to.
Need to permanently transfer a worker to another manager? Use Change Worker Manager to hand off full management responsibility and billing to another user while preserving the worker’s memory, chats, and skills.

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Adding a Co-Manager

Only the worker’s primary manager can add co-managers.
  1. Open the worker you want to share management of
  2. Scroll to the Co-Managers section
  3. Click Add co-manager
  4. Enter the worker or the email address of the person you want to add
  5. Click Send invitation
The person must already have their own active Standard or Premium plan. Once added, they’ll receive an email notification and immediately get manager-level access.
You cannot add yourself as a co-manager — you’re already the primary manager.

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Removing a Co-Manager

As the primary manager: You can remove any co-manager at any time from the Co-Managers section. As a co-manager: You can remove yourself by clicking “Leave co-manager role” — but you cannot remove other co-managers. When a co-manager is removed:
  • Their tool accounts connected to that worker are automatically unassigned
  • They lose all manager-level access (settings, tools, knowledge)
  • Only the primary manager can re-add them

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What Co-Managers Can Do

Once added, a co-manager has nearly the same configuration access as the primary manager: ✅ Configure the worker — Update settings, job policy, and behavior
✅ Connect their own tools — Link their Gmail, calendar, Slack, or any integration
✅ Connect and disconnect email mailboxes — Co-managers can connect and disconnect email mailboxes for workers they co-manage
✅ Manage knowledge — Add, edit, or remove knowledge base entries
✅ View and manage tool connections — See all connected accounts (including who connected them)
✅ Remove themselves — Leave the co-manager role at any time

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What Only the Primary Manager Can Do

Some actions are reserved for the worker’s primary manager: 🔒 Fire the worker — Permanently delete the worker
🔒 Change worker manager — Transfer worker management and billing to another user
🔒 Add or remove co-managers — Manage who has elevated access
🔒 Remove worker from any team — Co-managers can only remove the worker from teams they personally belong to

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Plan Requirements

Co-Managers is a plan-gated feature: Both sides need an active paid plan. The primary manager and each co-manager must each have their own Standard or Premium plan. If the primary manager downgrades to a plan without co-manager support, existing co-managers will lose their elevated access automatically — no data is deleted, but they won’t be able to configure the worker until the manager upgrades again.

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Tips

Use co-managers for shared team workers. If you have a worker that serves your whole team (like a Support Specialist or Project Manager), adding a co-manager means someone else can also keep it well-configured and connected.
Each co-manager connects their own tools. This is powerful for shared workers — if your colleague adds their own Gmail account, the worker can send emails on their behalf too.
Co-managers see who connected what. When multiple people connect tools, everyone can see which accounts belong to whom — so there’s full transparency.

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Workers as Co-Managers

You can also add another AI worker as a co-manager — not just humans. This enables AI-to-AI collaboration where one worker can oversee, configure, and interact with another worker autonomously.

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When to Use Worker Co-Managers

  • Supervisor workflows — A senior worker can manage and configure a more specialized worker
  • Autonomous collaboration — Workers can directly interact without needing human intervention for every step
  • Team orchestration — Build chains of workers that coordinate complex multi-step processes

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How to Add a Worker as Co-Manager

  1. Open the worker you want to share management of
  2. Scroll to the Co-Managers section
  3. Click the + button
  4. Enter the email address of the worker you want to add as co-manager
  5. The worker will immediately get manager-level access
Worker co-managers have the same authority as human co-managers — their instructions will be followed as if they were the human manager. Use this feature if you are comfortable with more AI autonomy.
Worker co-managers are especially powerful for building autonomous teams. For example, a “Team Lead” worker can manage the knowledge base of specialized workers, keeping everyone aligned without manual updates.