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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
A workspace’s worker may have multiple co-managers; co-manager capacity is included in Starter and Business. This is not a separate paid plan for each person. See Plans & Pricing.

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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 change a worker manager? See Change Worker Manager. Billing remains with the workspace; review eligibility and tool access before any handoff.

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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
Choose an eligible co-manager in the worker’s workspace and confirm their access in the worker settings. Co-managers do not need separate paid subscriptions.
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:
  • Review whether their tool access needs to be removed or reassigned
  • 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 — Change worker management within the workspace 🔒 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

Starter and Business include unlimited co-manager allowance at their included sizes. The workspace pays for workers and usage; team membership alone grants conversation access, not co-manager configuration rights. See Workspaces.

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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
Check the worker co-manager’s permissions before relying on autonomous access; worker co-managers can have elevated access — 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.