Roles
What each may do:
These are enforced by the server on every request. The console mirrors them by
hiding what a person cannot use, but the check that matters is the server’s.
A cardholder does not get the console at all. Handing someone whose whole
business here is the card in their pocket the full firm console would expose
work they cannot act on. They get a page for their own charges instead, and
cannot connect an AI client. See
expense claims.
Client access
An owner can limit an invite to named client companies. Leave the selection empty for an owner, operator, or member who should see the whole firm. A scoped person sees only the selected companies wherever the console or MCP tools list client work. A cardholder must be scoped to at least one company. With no company selected, the cardholder sees no claims.Business viewers
A business viewer is the owner of one of your clients, given a way to see their own books without being able to change them. “Owner” in the table above is whoever runs your Zeno workspace; a business viewer never is, and making someone one takes nothing away from anyone else.- Their companies, and only those. Pick at least one company when you invite a business viewer or move someone to the role. With none picked they would see nothing, so Zeno refuses the invite rather than guess. They can never be widened to the whole firm.
- Their own page. They do not get the console. They see their company’s profit and loss for the year and its balance sheet, read from QuickBooks Online when the page opens, and its latest transactions, each saying how fresh it is. None of your firm’s plans, notes or work is on it.
- Questions for you. Beside any transaction they can ask the team what it is. The question waits under Owner questions in your console and in your AI’s next check for pending work; it is not a chat, and nobody has to be online. Your AI can draft the answer; a person on your team publishes it before the owner sees it. Answering or resolving a question never changes the books - a correction is a plan, approved the usual way.
- Their own AI, read-only. A business viewer can connect Claude or ChatGPT to Zeno. That connection reads only their companies’ books and can leave questions, whatever they chose on the consent screen.
Anyone who could act can also connect an AI client for looking only: the
consent screen offers View and answer only beside Full access. That
choice is for that one connection. It changes nobody’s role.