Visibility in AB Sales is based on workspace membership. If you're a member of a workspace, you see that workspace's pipeline; roles control what you can manage, not what you can see. And every workspace's data is isolated from every other.
What a workspace member can see
- All leads, contacts, opportunities, and customers in the workspace — there's no per-record “private” visibility.
- Notes, activities, and email history on any record they can see.
- The same data across the Dashboard, Leads, Contacts, Opportunities, Customers, Orders, and Agents tabs.
Who is a member?
Channel-linked workspace
Everyone in the linked Teams channel is a member and sees the shared pipeline. Notification cards post to that channel.
Standalone workspace
Created in the personal app and scoped to you (and anyone you add). No channel, no channel notifications.
See Sales workspaces for the difference.
Roles control management, not visibility
A member holds one of three roles:
- Owner — everything an Admin can do, plus promoting someone else to Admin and transferring ownership. There is one per workspace.
- Admin — everything a Member can do, plus changing CRM Settings (the sending mailbox, currency, AI material, signatures and labels), configuring the Agent, and adding or removing members.
- Member — work the pipeline day to day: add and edit leads, contacts, and opportunities, and send email. This is what everyone gets by default, including people picked up automatically from a linked Teams channel.
AB Sales has no read-only tier. Nothing in the CRM screens gates reading or writing a record on your role — being a member is what decides both. Role decides settings and membership, and nothing else. Everyone can see settings; only Owners and Admins can change them.
A few specifics
- Records open only for signed-in workspace members (Microsoft SSO) — links aren't public.
- Automation and new-record cards post to the workspace's notification channel, visible to channel members.
- Data never crosses workspaces, even under the same account.
In short: workspace membership decides visibility, role decides management. For anything confidential, use a dedicated workspace.