> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.perquery.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Roles and permissions > How roles control what each member can do, and how to create, edit and delete roles. A role decides what its members can do. A role is a set of permissions. A member can hold more than one role and gets the permissions of all of them. To see the roles, open the user menu and click **Account Settings**. Then click the **Roles** tab. ## The owner role When you create an account, Perquery creates your organization with one role. Its name is **Admin**, and it has the **Owner** badge. The owner role has these rules: * It always holds every permission. * You cannot edit or delete it. * It is never given with an expiry date. * The organization always keeps at least one active member with the owner role. These rules make sure that the organization cannot lock itself out. ## Permissions A permission is one operation on one area of Perquery. The operations are **List**, **View**, **Create**, **Edit** and **Delete**. Some areas do not have all five operations. | Area | What it covers | | - | - | | **Members** | The people in the organization and their roles. | | **Roles** | The roles and what each one may do. | | **Plan and billing** | The plan, add-ons and billing. | | **Invitations** | Inviting people to join the organization. | | **API keys** | Keys that read the API on the organization's behalf. | | **Sites** | Sites, their settings and their tracking schedule. | | **Competitors** | The competitors tracked for each site. | | **Prompts** | Tracked prompts, groups and imports. | | **Personas** | Personas and their voices. | | **Visibility** | Visibility runs and their answers. | | **Content analysis** | Content crawls, pages and prompt matches. | | **Technical analysis** | Technical audits and page inspections. | | **Authority** | Citation sources and authority gaps. | | **Bot logs** | AI crawler logs and their uploads. | | **Opportunities** | Opportunities and marking them done or dismissed. | | **Impact** | Recorded interventions and their measured impact. | | **Suggestions** | Suggested personas, prompts and competitors. | | **Content tools** | Briefs, drafts, meta tags, schema and robots tools. | | **Integrations** | Connected analytics, search and ads accounts. | | **Reports** | The report page and its AI answers. | When a role does not give access to a page, the page shows **You do not have access to this page**. Menu items that your role does not allow do not show. > [!WARNING] > > Give the **Members** and **Roles** permissions only to people you trust. With them, a person can change what other people may do. ## Create a role **1. Open the Roles tab** On the **Organization** page, click **Roles**. **2. Start a new role** Click **New role**. **3. Name the role** Enter a **Name**. Keep **Show in pickers** on if people will invite or add members with this role. **4. Create** Click **Create role**. The role page opens. **5. Choose the permissions** In **Permissions**, select the operations for each area. Click **Save**. **Show in pickers** only hides a role from the lists in the invitation form and the member panel. It is not a security setting. ## Edit a role On the **Roles** tab, click **Manage** in the row of the role. The role page has these parts: * **Details**: the **Name** and **Show in pickers**. * **Permissions**: a grid of areas and operations. Use **Select all** or **Clear** to change many cells. Use **Only granted** to see only the permissions that the role gives. * **Includes**: other roles that this role includes. When you make a change, **You have unsaved changes.** shows. Click **Save** to keep the changes, or **Undo** to discard them. ### Include another role When a role includes another role, its members also get all permissions of the included role. **1. Choose the role** In **Includes**, select a role in **Include a role**. **2. Include** Click **Include**. Then click **Save**. A permission that comes from an included role shows the name of that role. A role cannot include itself through other roles. ### Narrow a permission You can narrow some permissions of the **Members**, **Invitations** and **Roles** areas. A narrowed permission applies only to the records that match its conditions. For example, a role can manage only the members who hold a specific role. **1. Open the conditions** In **Permissions**, click **Narrow** on the permission. **2. Add conditions** Click **Add condition**. Select a **Field**, a **Rule** and a **Value**. **3. Add alternatives (optional)** Click **Add alternative** to add a second group of conditions. **4. Apply** Click **Apply**. Then click **Save**. Inside one group, all conditions must match. The permission applies when one of the groups matches. A permission with no conditions applies to all records. ### You can give only the access that you have You cannot give a role a permission that you do not have yourself. The grid marks these permissions, and Perquery refuses them. ## Delete a role You cannot delete the owner role. **1. Start the deletion** On the **Roles** tab, click **Delete** in the row of the role. **2. Move people (if necessary)** Some members can have this role as their only role. For them, select a role in **Move people whose only role this is to**. **3. Delete** Click **Delete role**. Members with another role only lose the deleted role. If an open invitation uses the role, revoke the invitation first or choose a role to move people to. ## Related pages * [Organization and team](https://docs.perquery.ai/en/account/organization-and-team.md) * [API keys](https://docs.perquery.ai/en/account/api-keys.md) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.