Roles and access

Account roles, product access, the active account, plans and the limits an account carries. Terms are those the console and the platform's account model use.

Membership

A member is one user's membership of one account. The member record carries:

Part	Values	Meaning
Role	Admin, Viewer	What the member may do to the account itself
Ideate access	on or off	Whether the member may work in Ideate for this account
Build access	on or off	Whether the member may work in Build for this account
Monthly usage limit	credits a month; empty means none	The most credits the member may use in this account each calendar month (UTC)
Cost code	text, optional	The customer's own accounting identifier to which the member's spend is attributed

Ideate and Build access are independent of the role: an admin may hold neither, and a member with both may be a viewer.

Account roles

Role	Allows
Admin	Everything a viewer can, plus: add and remove members, grant and revoke Ideate and Build access, approve or decline access requests, manage recognised domains and auto-enrol, set member roles, see account activity, set members' and the account's monthly usage limits, see and pay invoices, edit account details and billing information
Viewer	Read the account. Every member has at least this role; adding a member always grants it

The console names the role column Account admin. Change role switches a member between admin and viewer; a role cannot be cleared without removing the member.

Product access

Access	Console control	With access	Without access
Ideate	Alis Ideate switch on Members	Full ideation access: projects, interviews, artifacts and chats. Usage is measured in credits against the account	Projects shows shared projects only; Limited Ideate functionality card
Build	Alis Build switch on Members	Full Build access for the account: Activity, Build environments, Workstations, Skill store. Product and build-environment permissions are granted separately	Alis Build access required page with Request Alis Build access

How access is granted

Route	Who acts	Result
Add member with a product selected	Admin	Member added with that product's access
Product switch on Members	Admin	Access granted or revoked
Bulk action bar	Admin	Access granted or revoked for up to 20 members
Access requests	Admin approves a request	Access granted; a declined requester may request again
Product auto-enrol	Admin switches a product on for recognised domains	Anyone signing in with a recognised domain can join the account and claim that product without approval
Invite a fellow builder	Admin	Emails an invitation to become a builder; optionally adds the person to an account the inviter owns with Build and Ideate access

The active account

Each user has one active account, shared by Ideate, Build, the console and the CLI. It is carried in the user's session.

Property	Value
Set by	The account card in the console; alis accounts select accounts/ACCOUNT in the CLI
Requirement	The user is a member of the account. Product access is checked separately when entering Ideate or Build
Read by	Every page in the console; every CLI command that needs an account
Effect	Ideate and Build usage is measured against it; it is the account invoiced for that usage
Fallback	A fresh sign-in with no active account restores the account last used in that browser

Plans

An account holds exactly one plan across the platform. The plan sets a single credit rate that every tool's usage draws against.

Plan	Description
Express	The free trial tier. Once expired, usage is blocked until the account moves to a paid plan
Foundation	First paid plan
Professional	Second paid plan
Enterprise	Carries a fixed monthly account fee on top of credit spend
Partner	The partner tier, with a cap on Build credits billed per builder per month

Each plan defines: the price per 100 credits in the account's currency, the account fee (Enterprise only), the credits drawn per active build hour, the Build credit cap per builder (Partner only), and the maximum number of ideas and products.

Billing modes

Mode	Plans	Behaviour
Prepaid	Foundation	The balance is topped up to a minimum at the start of each billing period; the minimum acts as a monthly commitment
Billed in arrears	Professional, Partner, Enterprise	You are billed monthly for what you use. With a limit set, new work can't start once the month's usage reaches it, and a limit of zero allows no new work; with no limit set, usage is never stopped. Work that is already running always finishes

Invoices

Property	Value
Scope	One account, one billing period (a calendar month)
Number	Account id and a running number, for example ACCOUNT-12
Lines	Credit usage per product, converted at the plan's credit price; a monthly fixed cost where the plan has one; credit purchases
Delivery	Finalised at month end and emailed to the account's billing contacts
Statuses shown in the console	Due, Paid
Actions	Pay invoice, View statement, Download statement

Limits and defaults

Limit	Value	Where set
Free credits on account creation	A starter grant, shown on the Spending step of billing setup	Granted automatically
Spend limit chosen at sign-up	Stop at the free credits by default, or Keep going, up to a limit with a monthly Spend limit	Spending step of billing setup
A member's monthly usage limit	Any number of credits; empty means no limit of their own; applies to the calendar month (UTC)	Activity, User activity, Set user limit
Account monthly usage limit	Any number of credits, free credits included; empty means none; 0 blocks all usage; once the month's usage reaches it, new work can't start. Or Stop when the free credits run out	Activity, Monthly usage limit, Adjust
Members added or selected at once	20	Add member, bulk actions
Profile photo	4 MB	User Profile

Account country and currency

The billing country chosen at creation decides the currency the account is invoiced in and which Alis company invoices it. It cannot be changed after creation.