Studio roles: what a shared workspace actually does

Studio does not have permission roles today. Here is what a shared workspace actually gives you, and what to do when you need a read-only bookkeeper.

This article used to describe three Studio roles, Owner, Sender, and Auditor, with a breakdown of what each one could and could not do. That was wrong: those roles were never built. The workspace stores a label for whoever created it and shows it in the member list, but nothing in CyberSygn restricts what any member can do. Rather than quietly delete the page, here is the accurate version, including the workaround for the case the old article got people excited about.

What a Studio workspace actually does

A Studio workspace is shared visibility and shared work, not tiered access. Every member sees the workspace's active and completed documents, can send a new document, can chase a pending signer, and can download signed PDFs and audit certificates. The person who created the workspace is marked as the owner in the member list and is the one who holds billing. That is genuinely most of the value for a team of two to five. A deal does not stall when one person is out: your teammate sees the contract sitting unsigned, sends the reminder, and closes it. That part is real and it works today.

What it does not do

There is no read-only member, and no send-but-do-not-change member. If you add someone to the workspace, they can send documents from it. We would rather say that plainly than let you find out from a contract you did not expect to go out. The case people ask about most is the bookkeeper who needs contract history for the books without any chance of sending something by accident. Until per-member permissions exist, do not add them to the workspace. Share the signed PDF and its audit certificate with them directly: the certificate is self-contained and independently verifiable at cybersygn.io/verify, so they can confirm a document is genuine without an account and without access to anything else.

Inviting people, which does work

Open your dashboard, invite by email address, and your teammate gets a one-click acceptance link. No signup form, no password step on your end. That flow is real and takes about two minutes. If per-member permissions are the thing standing between you and Studio, say so at hello@cybersygn.io. We would rather hear it than sell you a workspace that does not do what you needed.