Edit Together: Invite Your Team to a C Building Website

In a small business, "the person who does the website" is often one person. When they are on holiday, busy or gone, the website stops changing.

A C Building website doesn't have to depend on one person. You can invite others to work on it with you.

How it works

1. Open the project's settings and invite the people you want to work with.
2. Give each person a role: admin, editor or viewer. The role decides how much each person can do, from looking at the site to editing it to managing it.
3. They see it in their project list. Shared websites appear alongside their own, labelled as a collaboration project with their role, so everyone knows which sites they own and which they are helping with.

Everyone works on the same website, in the same editor, with the same two ways to edit: telling the AI what to change, or clicking on the page and changing it directly.

Who pays for the AI

When collaborators ask the AI to make changes in a shared project, that AI usage is billed to the project owner's account. Your collaborators don't need their own paid plan to help with your site, and you keep one view of how much AI your website uses.

It is worth knowing when you invite someone who likes to experiment: every round of chat with the AI counts as an AI edit on your plan. Clicking and editing the page directly doesn't use AI edits at all. How AI usage works is explained in how AI credits work.

Ways small businesses use it

• The owner and the manager. The owner keeps the account; the shop manager updates opening hours, the menu and announcements.
• A business and its designer. Invite the designer who helps with your brand to adjust the look, without handing over your account.
• Several locations. Each branch manager can help keep their own location's pages current.
• A second pair of eyes. Invite someone to look over the site before you publish.

A few good habits

• Give people the smallest role that lets them do their job. You can always change it later.
• Agree who publishes. Edits stay in the working copy until someone publishes, so decide who presses Publish.
• Use the version history. If two people's changes cross, restore an earlier version and redo the change you wanted. See undo anything.

Why we built it this way

Why do collaborators use the owner's AI credits?

Because the website belongs to the owner. Keeping AI usage on the owner's plan means collaborators can help without paying, and the owner sees all the AI use on their site in one place.

Do collaborators need a paid plan?

Not to work on a site that is shared with them: the AI usage there counts against the owner's plan.

Wrapping up

A website stays current when more than one person can keep it that way. Invite your team, give each person the right role, and let the website keep up with the business even when you are busy.