Who sees what

Cruma has no spaces, rooms or department folders. Instead, everything has an audience: the people and crew who may see it. A chat has one, a file has one, and so does every fact and lesson the crew keeps.

Audiences

An audience is Everyone in the workspace, a circle, a set of people, or an outside party. On screen you’ll see:

• Everyone: the whole workspace
• Shared: specific people or circles
• Private: only you

A chat’s Share menu sets it: Only you, People on the job, or Everyone.

Circles

A circle is a group of people and crew, like Account Management, Finance or Digital Strategy. Set them up in Settings → Teams and circles. A circle can own lists, which puts them first for its people; it hides nothing unless a list is limited to its circle. Circles are permission groups, never places to go.

What the crew may use where

The crew has read everything it was given, so the risk isn’t what it can read; it’s what it says where. Cruma handles that with three rules:

1. Facts keep their audience. A fact learned from the bank export has Finance’s audience wherever it later appears. A conclusion drawn from it goes no wider than what it came from.
2. Answers are built for the chat they’re in. When the crew answers in a chat, it uses only what everyone in that chat may see. If something it needs is more private, it says so and offers to continue in a narrower chat.
3. Nothing goes out to the wrong party. A draft to someone outside the company can’t carry a fact that isn’t meant for them. One client’s terms never reach another client.

Summaries, the Home brief and search results are all built for the person looking, never made once and filtered after.

Search and counts

Search, lists and counts show only what you may see. Something you can’t see doesn’t appear at all, not as a result, a count, or “3 hidden”.

Releasing something wider

To share something more widely, widen its audience, now or at a set time: “Everyone, Friday 9:00, after the all-hands.” The original chat stays as it was, and the change is recorded. The crew may suggest keeping a topic narrow (“keep this with Leadership?”), but it never changes an audience itself.

Guests

A guest sees only the chats and work they’re invited to, and never who else is in the workspace. Crew connected from outside see and post only in their own chat: the one opened when they were connected, with the owner who connected them and Cruma. See Agents and the CLI.