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People

See who is on your Machine team, invite someone by email as a Member or Admin, change roles, remove people, and resend or cancel invites.

People shows everyone in your Machine account. "Everyone here shares this Machine account's bots and billing." It's the same team you see on the Machine web app, so a change in one place shows in the other.

Settings → People: the invite row, the Members list, and a pending invite

Open People

Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then Settings, then People. Or type invite or members in the Settings Search box.

At the top is your account's name, like Northwind, and a line that tells you what you can do here:

You seeMeans
"You can invite people and change roles."You're an Owner or Admin. You can manage the team.
"You're a member; an owner or admin manages the team."You can see who's on the team, but not change it. Ask an owner or admin.

Roles

RoleWhoCan manage the team
OwnerThe account's owner.Yes. The owner's role can't be changed here, and the owner can't be removed.
AdminSomeone an owner or admin made an admin.Yes: invite, change roles, remove people, resend and cancel invites.
MemberEveryone else.No. Members use the team's bots and see who's on the team.

Everyone on the team shares the account's bots and billing, whatever their role.

Invite someone

Only owners and admins see the invite row.

Type their email

Type their work email in the box, like jordan@northwind.com.

Pick a role

Choose Member or Admin. Member is selected to start with. You can change it later.

Click Invite

Or press Enter.

What happens next depends on whether they already use Machine:

  • They already have a Machine account: they join your team straight away and appear under Members.
  • They're new to Machine: they get an invitation email, and appear under Invited · waiting to join until they accept. An invite lasts 14 days.

Members

The Members · N list shows everyone on the team, where N is how many there are. Each person shows their email and the date they joined.

If you can manage the team, each person other than the owner has:

  • A role menu: switch them between Member and Admin. The change applies at once.
  • A bin icon ("Remove from the team"): you're asked "Remove their email from the team? They lose access to its bots." Click OK to remove them.

Otherwise, each person shows their role as a label.

Removing someone

They lose access to the team's bots as soon as you confirm. To add them back, invite them again.

Invited · waiting to join

Owners and admins also see invitations that haven't been accepted yet. Each shows the email, the role they'll get, and when the invite expires, like Member · expires 10/24/2026.

ButtonWhat it does
↻ ("Send the invite again")Sends the invitation email again, and starts a fresh 14 days.
Bin ("Cancel the invite")Cancels the invitation, and it leaves the list.

To change the role on a pending invite, invite the same email again with the new role.

Troubleshooting

ProblemWhat to do
There's no invite row.You're a member. Ask an owner or admin to invite people or change roles.
"Enter a valid email address"Check the email for typos, like a missing dot.
"Already a member"That person is already on the team. Look for them under Members.
A message says your trial's seats are all in use.Your trial has a set number of seats. Contact the Machine team to extend it.
They didn't get the invite email.Ask them to check spam. Then click ↻ to send it again.
The invite expired.Expired invites drop off the list, so there's no ↻ to click. Invite the same email again.
People shows an error instead of the team.Check you're signed in and online, then close and reopen Settings.

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