May 21, 2026

User Management

Invite people to Alaigned and remove accounts safely with ownership transfer

Overview

Administrators manage their organization's members from the Company Users page. This guide covers two parts of the member lifecycle: inviting people in, and removing accounts safely.

You can add members individually from the Company Users page, or in bulk — see CSV User Import.

Where to find it

Top nav → Admin → Company Users. Managing users is available to administrators only.

Roles

Every member holds one organization role, which sets what they can do across the whole organization:

RoleWhat it allows
Enterprise AdminEverything: organization settings, templates, users, strategy versions, and all one-pagers.
Program ManagerSteer delivery without full admin rights — approve and lock one-pagers across the organization, manage strategy versions (and create one-pagers, which cloning a version requires), set evaluation statuses, and run reports. Reachable from Admin → One-pager Approvals and Admin → Strategy Versions.
Enterprise CollaboratorView, comment on, and rate one-pagers.
Enterprise ViewerView, comment on, and rate one-pagers.

Collaborators and Viewers cannot edit. Neither role grants editing at the organization level — the difference between them is conventional rather than functional today. Editing comes from owning a one-pager, not from the organization role.

On top of the organization role, a member can be an owner of any number of individual one-pagers. Ownership is what grants editing, approving, locking, and cascading — scoped to that one-pager and everything beneath it. That's why the users list shows One Pager Owner alongside someone's organization role. See One-Pager Owners.

The practical consequence: to let someone work on one team's strategy, make them an owner of that one-pager rather than giving them a broader role.

Seeing who owns which one-pagers

The Company Users list includes an Owned One-Pagers column showing the one-pagers each member owns in the current strategy version. Members can own several one-pagers — the first few are shown as tags, and any remaining ones are collapsed into a +N tag. Hover over a tag to see the one-pager's full title and level.

This makes it easy to spot at a glance who is responsible for what — and who needs an ownership transfer before their account can be removed.

Inviting a member

After a member's account is created, they still need to set a password before they can sign in. Open the member's page from the Company Users list — for anyone who hasn't signed in yet, you'll see two options:

The Send Invitation Email and Copy Invitation Message buttons

  • Send Invitation Email — Alaigned emails the member an invitation with a link to set their password. Use this for a standard hands-off invite.
  • Copy Invitation Message — copies a ready-made invitation message (including the set-password link) to your clipboard, so you can send it through your own channel — Slack, Teams, or a personal email.

Both options achieve the same thing; pick whichever fits how your organization communicates. Once the member has signed in, these buttons no longer appear.

Members who sign in through Single Sign-On don't need an invitation — their credentials are managed by your identity provider, so the invitation buttons aren't shown for them.

Removing a member

To remove someone, use the delete action next to their name in the Company Users list. Removal is a soft delete: the account is deactivated and anonymized rather than erased, so historical records stay intact.

Ownership must be transferred first

If the member owns one or more one-pagers, you can't remove them until that ownership is reassigned — every one-pager needs an owner. The delete dialog walks you through it:

The delete dialog with ownership transfer

  • Use Transfer all to to hand every one-pager to a single colleague at once, or
  • Pick a new owner per one-pager for finer control.

Once every one-pager has a new owner, click Transfer & Delete. If the member owns no one-pagers, the dialog is a simple confirmation instead.

You cannot delete your own account, and a member who has already been removed can't be removed again.

After removal

A removed member is deactivated immediately and shown as an anonymized "Deleted User" in places where their name previously appeared. Deleted accounts are hidden from the Company Users list by default — turn on Show deleted to see them.