Organizations & workspaces
The account container your canvases and team live in, and how team access works.
A workspace is your team's account in Canvasm. It's the top-level container: everything you build — canvases, metrics, dashboards, connected data — belongs to one workspace, and access is decided at the workspace level.
What a workspace holds
- Canvases — your metric maps (see Canvases).
- The metric catalog — tracked metrics and their value series, shared across canvases in the workspace (see Metrics & sources).
- Members — the people on your team, each with a role.
- Connected data & API keys — connectors and keys are scoped to the workspace, so data never crosses between workspaces.
Team access: roles
Every member has a workspace role that sets what they can do:
| Role | Can do |
|---|---|
| Viewer | Read canvases and dashboards they're permitted to see |
| Commenter | Everything a Viewer can, plus leave comments |
| Editor | Build and change canvases, metrics, and dashboards |
| Admin | Everything, plus manage members, groups, and access policy |
Roles decide what you can do. Which specific metrics you can see is a separate, finer layer — see Groups & visibility.
Roles vs visibility
A person can be an Editor and still not see every number: role controls capability, visibility controls which cards are shown. The two combine.
Project boundaries
Because data, metrics, and keys are workspace-scoped, a workspace is a clean boundary for a company or a business unit. If you run genuinely separate businesses, use separate workspaces.
Next steps
Learn the thing you'll spend the most time in: the Canvas. To manage who sees what, read Groups & visibility.