Workspaces
A workspace holds your people, your Credits and everything you make together. Start one, switch between them, or leave one.
What's in a workspace
| Part | What it holds |
|---|---|
| People | Up to 50 people — one owner and the members who can edit or view — plus guests invited to single projects, chats, canvases or docs |
| Plan and Credits | One plan, and the usage and extra Credits that pay for everything used here |
| Projects | Files, canvases, docs, chats and each project's brief |
| Library | Elements, each Private or open to the workspace |
| What each person keeps | Their My files and memories, private to them |
| Chats | Chats that belong to no project yet |
Your home workspace
Signing up makes your home workspace, named after your first name (“Ada's Studio”). It is an ordinary workspace you can invite people into and put on a plan. When Benchy Desktop is signed in to it, the folders you open on your Mac become private projects here, until you move or share them.
Start another workspace
In the account menu, choose the row with your workspace's name, then New workspace. You become its owner, and it starts on the Free plan. A common setup is one workspace for your own work and one per client or team. You can own up to 100 workspaces and belong to up to 200.
Only your home workspace comes with the Free weekly usage; another Free workspace runs on Credits until you put it on a plan. The Free workspaces you own share one storage allowance. A paid workspace gets its own usage and storage, and Credits stay with the workspace they were bought for.
Switch workspaces
The workspace row in the account menu names the open workspace and lists every workspace you belong to and the invitations waiting for you. Projects, chats and Credits all follow the workspace you're in.
API keys and connected apps don't switch: each stays in the workspace it was made for. See Connect your agent.
What stays yours
Nobody else, the workspace owner included, can open:
- My files, your private folder for files that aren't in a project yet.
- Your chats outside a project, until you share them.
- Projects you've kept private.
- Your skills, one library you use in every workspace, and your Private Elements.
- What Benchy remembers for you, kept separately in each workspace and shown only to you under Memories in Knowledge.
When someone leaves
Leave with Leave workspace on its Members page, or the owner removes you. Then:
- Your projects, canvases and docs there pass to the owner, private ones included. Your My files becomes a private project of theirs, named after you.
- Projects you paired with Benchy Desktop lose the pairing.
- Your chats stay yours to read and delete, but not continue.
- The memories Benchy kept for you there are deleted.
- Your access to single items there ends, and your share links stop working.
- Your API keys and connected apps for that workspace stop at once, and any answer Benchy was writing for you stops.
The owner, and deleting a workspace
A workspace has one owner, the person who started it, who can't leave, be removed or hand it on.
Only the owner can delete a workspace, with Delete workspace at the end of its Members page; no API key, connected app or Benchy can. The confirmation lists what goes and asks for the workspace's name. Then:
- Its projects and files go at once, with everyone's My files and the canvases, docs, Elements, assets, voices and memories in it. File versions published on World stay with their listing.
- Skills made there move to each author's home workspace.
- Its live websites go offline, its custom domains are released, and its website names stay taken.
- Everyone loses access, and its API keys and connected apps stop working.
- Its Credits move to another workspace you own.
- Its chats go to the Trash and are purged after 30 days.
The page says what has to end first: you can't delete your only workspace, and a paid plan must be cancelled in Billing and run out, extra editors cancelled, a classroom closed, and running generations finished or cancelled.