Manage Teams & Personal Connections
Version: 1.0.0
Access: Sidebar → Manage Teams (/teams)
11. Overview
Manage Teams is the organization and people layer of the Aselius Platform. It lets professionals and enterprises:
- Create organizations (teams) with defined roles and membership
- Open team messaging in the Messages app (linked automatically)
- Build a personal network outside any organization via Personal Connections
- Discover colleagues by CloudHandle and start 1:1 direct messages
Manage Teams is designed for human-to-human collaboration inside a broader agentic infrastructure platform. Aselius is not limited to person-to-AI interaction; it also supports secure, structured communication between people, teams, and (separately) AI-assisted workspaces.
Transparency, AI today:
Manage Teams and Personal Connections are not AI-powered in the current release. They use standard application logic: membership rules, invitations, connection requests, and real-time presence. AI capabilities on Aselius live in other areas (for example, Aselius Workspace and Manage Files). If AI is added to Teams in the future, Beunec will disclose it in product release notes.
22. Who this is for
| Audience | What you get |
|---|---|
| Business users | Create teams, invite members, message colleagues, manage connections |
| Team leads / owners | Control membership, transfer ownership, delete organizations |
| IT & security reviewers | Auth0-backed access, role-based actions, audit-friendly flows |
| Developers | REST APIs under /api/teams and /api/networks with JWT authentication |
33. Platform context
Manage Teams focuses on people and organizations. Messages handles conversation. Manage Files handles document storage and AI-assisted document interaction, a different product surface with its own rules and parsing pipeline.
44. Core concepts
4.1 Organization (Team)
An organization is a named group with:
- Name and description
- Members with roles: Owner, Admin, or Member
- A linked messaging group with a default #General channel (created automatically)
When you create a team, you do not need to manually set up a chat space, the platform provisions one for you.
4.2 Roles and permissions
| Role | Typical capabilities |
|---|---|
| Owner | Full control: edit team info, invite/remove members, change roles, transfer ownership, delete organization |
| Admin | Manage members and team settings; cannot delete the organization or transfer ownership |
| Member | Participate in team chat; may invite others only if the team allows member invites (server-side rule) |
Only the owner can permanently delete an organization. Deletion removes the team, all memberships, and the linked messaging group (including channels and messages).
4.3 Personal Connections
Personal Connections live on the same page as Manage Teams but are separate from organizations:
- Discover people by CloudHandle
- Send and manage connection requests
- View profiles and open direct messages
- Disconnect when a professional relationship ends
Connections are the social graph that powers 1:1 messaging; team membership is the organizational graph that powers group messaging.
4.4 CloudHandle
Your CloudHandle is your unique identity on the platform (for example, name@beunec.cloud). It is used to:
- Invite someone to a team
- Search for people to connect with
- Route direct messages
55. User journey (flowchart)
66. Desktop vs mobile experience
| Feature | Desktop (wide screens) | Mobile / tablet |
|---|---|---|
| Team list | Full-width main area | Same, stacked layout |
| Team settings | Right-side panel (list stays visible); resizable | Full-page team detail with back navigation |
| Connection profile | Right-side panel | Modal dialog |
| Navigation to Messages | Opens group or DM in Messages | Same |
This pattern keeps context on desktop (you never lose sight of your team list) while remaining fully usable on smaller screens.
77. How Teams connects to Messages
Member sync: When an admin adds someone to a team, the platform also adds them to the linked messaging group so they can participate without a separate onboarding step.
88. Security and trust (high level)
Beunec does not publish internal key management or model architecture in public docs. What users and enterprises can rely on:
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Authentication | Industry-standard identity via Auth0; API requests require a valid JWT |
| Authorization | Role checks on every sensitive action (invite, delete, transfer) |
| Input hygiene | Team names and descriptions are sanitized server-side |
| Identity binding | Actions are tied to your authenticated CloudHandle, not anonymous sessions |
| Deletion scope | Owner-initiated org delete removes org data and linked messaging artifacts |
For message content encryption and file storage details, see the Messages documentation.
99. What Manage Teams does not do (today)
- No AI-generated team recommendations, summaries, or auto-invites
- No automated org chart inference
- No built-in video calling (use Messages for text/files; external tools for calls if needed)
- No public people directory browse, discovery requires knowing a CloudHandle and the profile being public
- No cross-tenant federation like some enterprise chat suites
These are intentional product boundaries for the current release.
1010. How this fits the Aselius philosophy
Traditional collaboration tools (Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc.) are excellent communication hubs. Aselius is built as agentic infrastructure: a place where humans work with AI and with each other, under one account and security model.
Manage Teams is not positioned as a replacement for those tools. It is the organizational and relationship layer inside Aselius so that:
- Teams and connections are first-class
- Messaging is native, not bolted on
- AI-assisted work (files, workspace) shares the same identity and storage context
1111. Quick reference, common tasks
| Task | Steps |
|---|---|
| Create a team | Manage Teams → Create Team → name + description → create |
| Invite a member | Open team → Add member → CloudHandle → role → Add |
| Message the team | Team card → Message or team settings → Open Team Chat |
| Connect with someone | Personal Connections → Discover → CloudHandle → Send request |
| Accept a request | Connection Requests → Accept |
| Start a DM | Your Connections → click person → Send Message |
| Delete a team (owner only) | Team card trash icon or team settings → Delete organization permanently |
| Transfer ownership | Team settings → Members → crown icon on target member → confirm |
1212. Support and disclosure
- Product: Aselius Platform
- Company: Beunec Technologies Inc.
- AI disclosure: Manage Teams is rule-based software today. Future AI features will be announced in release notes.
- Proprietary systems: Internal parsing engines, model providers, and infrastructure topology are not disclosed in public documentation.