Software factory: Sharing a project and roles
Invite people to a software factory project, pick their role, and how roles carry into your live app.
You can share a software factory project with anyone, including people outside your organization, such as a contractor, a client, or a vendor giving you a quote. Open the project, choose Share, enter their email, and pick a role. They get an email invite. They do not need a paid plan.
Roles
| Role | In Chipp | In your live app |
|---|---|---|
| Viewer | Sees the project overview. Cannot change it or open the Builder. | Viewer: reads, cannot change data. |
| Editor | Opens the Builder, chats with the AI engineer, files tickets. | Editor: reads and writes app data. |
| Owner | Everything an editor can do, plus members, access and publishing. | Owner (or admin, when the app already has an owner). |
People in your own organization reach the project through the organization. Their role comes from their organization role.
What a viewer sees
When a viewer accepts the invite and your app is live, they land in the live app, not the Builder. They sign in there with the email the invite was sent to. If the app has not been published yet, they land on the project overview in Chipp instead.
Promote a viewer to editor
Open Share (or the project’s Members page) and change their role from viewer to editor. One step. The next time they open the project, it opens in the Builder.
Roles sync into your app
Each software factory app has its own sign-in and its own list of people. A person with a role on the Chipp project gets the matching role in the app automatically. When you change their role in Chipp, the app follows. When you remove them from the project, they are removed from the app too, and their open sessions end.
The sync only changes the people it added. In the app those people show as Managed by Chipp on the app’s Team page, and the app does not let anyone change or remove them there. To change them, change their role on the Chipp project. If someone already had their own account in the app before you shared the project, the sync leaves that account alone.
The sync reaches apps built from the current software factory template. An app created earlier picks it up with its next template update.
Invite people inside the app only
You can also invite people from inside the app itself (its own team page). Those people never need a Chipp account and do not see the project in Chipp. The role sync never touches them. Use this for your app’s own users and staff; use Share in Chipp for people who should help build or review the project.
Remove someone
Remove them from Share or Members. Removing a member:
- ends their access to the project in Chipp;
- removes them from the app, if the sync added them;
- ends their live app access when the app is restricted (Restricting access to your live app);
- revokes the git credentials they created (Work on your project in Claude Code).