# Role

> The role decides what a member may do in your organization. CIRO NOISE has three fixed roles, Owner, Admin and Viewer, and role bundles that set permissions per feature for every other member.

- Page: https://www.ciro-noise.de/glossar/rolle
- Deutsche Fassung: https://www.ciro-noise.de/glossar/rolle.md

Every member in CIRO NOISE has exactly one role. It answers the question of what this person may do in the organization: manage everything, read everywhere or work in specific features.

You choose the role when inviting someone and change it later under Organization › Members. It is separate from the seat: the seat says whether someone takes up a full seat or only logs hours, and the role says what they may do within that limit.

## How roles work in CIRO NOISE

Owners can do everything, including handing on the owner role and deleting the organization. Admins manage members, roles, settings and the subscription, including cancelling it, and work in every feature. Viewers read along and change nothing. Permissions for these three roles are fixed, so personal overrides have no effect on them.

Every other member works with a role bundle, such as Customer service or Finance. The bundle sets, for each feature, whether the person has no access, can read or can write. For individual people you can deviate from it without creating a new bundle.

## Who can assign which role

Owners and admins assign roles. The owner role is the owners' business: only an owner can make someone an owner, change an owner's role or remove an owner from the organization.

Two rules keep an organization from ending up without anyone in charge. There is always at least one person with the owner or admin role, and you can't demote yourself below admin. Someone else with management rights has to do that, and for an owner it must be another owner. Owners and admins also always need a full seat.

## An everyday example

In an engineering firm of eight, the founder is the owner and the office manager is an admin. He invites new members and maintains the role bundles. The project engineers get Engineering, the bookkeeper gets Finance. The external tax advisor gets the Viewer role so he can read along without changing anything.

## Frequently asked questions about Role

### Which roles are there in CIRO NOISE?

CIRO NOISE has three fixed roles: Owner, Admin and Viewer. Every other member gets a role bundle that sets their permissions per feature.

### What is the difference between owner and admin?

Both roles manage members, roles and settings in CIRO NOISE. Only an owner grants or revokes the owner role and deletes the organization.

### Can I give someone more permissions than their role allows?

Yes, if the person works with a role bundle. In CIRO NOISE you then set a permission override for individual features. For owners, admins and viewers the permissions are fixed.

## Related terms

- [Role bundle](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/role-bundle.md)
- [Permission override](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/permission-override.md)
- [Member](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/member.md)

See the feature: https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/features.md

## CIRO NOISE at a glance

- CIRO NOISE is a workspace for small businesses and teams of up to about 50 people: wiki, tasks, customer requests, finance with quotes and invoices, customers (CRM), meetings, knowledge with AI, social media, password vault, and time tracking behind one login.
- Price: the first 2 seats are free, with every feature. Each additional seat costs €25 per month plus VAT. No credit card to start.
- Privacy: servers and AI run in EU data centers, content never trains AI models, and permissions apply per person and feature.
- AI connection: Claude and other AI assistants connect through MCP, the open standard for AI tools, with exactly the permissions of the person.
- Provider: CIRO GmbH, Eching, Germany. Contact: hello@ciro.gmbh, phone +49 89 24 88 31 22.