workspaces

Personal and team workspaces

Decide when to keep a personal workspace, when to move to a team workspace, and how to keep client or business context separate.

· OpenbirdAI documentation

Most people end up with more than one workspace: a personal one for their own work, and one or more team workspaces for a business or a client. The rule is simple — if two kinds of information must never be mixed, they belong in different workspaces.

When a personal workspace is enough

  • You are the only user and only need your own context.
  • You are evaluating the product before involving anyone else.
  • Your work is exploratory and uncommitted.

A personal workspace keeps things simple and avoids accidental sharing while you are still learning the product.

When to move to a team workspace

  • Other people need to ask questions about the same data.
  • You need shared workspace memory and team goals.
  • You need role-based permissions or an audit trail of who did what.
  • You are handling a business with clients whose data must stay separate.

Keeping clients and businesses separate

  1. Create one workspace per client or business.
  2. Connect only the accounts that belong to that client.
  3. Store client-specific memory in that workspace.
  4. Check the switcher before every question in a client workspace.
Because connections and memory are workspace-scoped, mixing is prevented structurally — but only if you keep the discipline of checking the switcher.

Moving between workspaces cleanly

Switch, then start a new conversation. If you need to carry a point across, restate it explicitly rather than relying on context that will not follow you.

Migrating to a team workspace

There is no automatic merge, so plan the move before you need it. Create the team workspace, connect the accounts it needs, write the shared context into its memory, and invite members. Keep the personal workspace for genuinely personal work.

  • Do not copy personal conversations into the team workspace by pasting them.
  • Re-create the shared facts as workspace memory rather than as chat history.
  • Decide which connections belong to the team and which stay personal.

Common questions

Can I merge two workspaces?

Not automatically. Treat a workspace as a boundary from the start and create workspaces deliberately.

Does a teammate see my personal workspace?

No, unless you invite them to it, which you generally should not.

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