Every organization has two administrative positions: owners and organization admins. Both have full access to all product features and data in the organization — permission and resource-group restrictions don't apply to them. The difference is in what they can administer.
What each can do
Capability | Owner | Organization admin |
Full access to all product features and assets | ✓ | ✓ |
Invite, manage, and deactivate users | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and manage teams | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and manage roles, assign roles to teams/users | ✓ | ✓ |
Configure team notification settings | ✓ | ✓ |
Manage the organization admin roster | ✓ | ✓ |
Edit organization settings (name, integrations, default team) | ✓ | - |
Manage Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) connection and sync | ✓ | - |
Use View As to preview another user's access | ✓ | ✓ |
In short: admins manage the organization's people (users, teams, roles, and the admin roster), while owners additionally control the organization itself (its settings, default team, and identity-provider integration).
How ownership is assigned
The first owner is set when the organization is created — either the person who registered with MontBlancAI, or the owner named when a billing admin provisioned the organization. Ownership cannot currently be transferred from within the app; contact MontBlancAI support to add or change owners.
Owners and admins can appoint additional organization admins at any time from the organization's administration settings.
Delegating administration without admin rights
You don't have to make someone an admin to let them help administer the organization. The permission catalog includes dedicated management permissions:
User management — invite, edit, and deactivate users
Role management — create and edit roles
Team management — create teams, manage team membership, and assign roles
Resource group management — control which teams can access which resource groups
Granting any of the user/role/team management permissions (via a role on a team) makes that user an *account administrator* for the corresponding area — they can manage users, roles, or teams without gaining the full, unrestricted data access that owners and admins have. Organizations provisioned by MontBlancAI include an Account Management team preconfigured for exactly this purpose.
A note on billing
Organization owners and admins do not automatically see billing information. Billing accounts, subscriptions, and allocations are managed by the billing account's owner and billing admins