Sharing Briefs
Invite teammates into a brief so they can read, contribute, and vote on readiness alongside you.
Overview
Briefs in Hamster Studio are scoped to your team account. Anyone on your team can view briefs in the Briefs section. To bring specific teammates into the conversation thread of a brief — where they can see the AI chat history and participate in the discussion — you invite them as participants. Participants appear as avatars next to the brief title, and they receive the context of the full conversation in that brief.
How It Works
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Open the brief — Navigate to the brief you want to share. The participant control is visible in the document header, next to the title.
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Open the invite control — Click the participant avatars or the invite button next to the title. A dropdown opens showing the current participants and an option to invite more.
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Invite a team member — Search for team members by name in the dropdown and select them. They are added as participants to the brief's conversation thread.
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Join or leave — If you are already a participant, the same control lets you leave the brief thread. If you are not yet a participant, you can join directly from the control.
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Participants see the brief — Invited participants can open the brief from the Briefs list, read and edit the document, view the Plan and Context tabs, and participate in the Activity tab by casting alignment votes.
Who Can See a Brief
Briefs belong to a team account. All members of a team account can see all briefs in that account's Briefs section. The participant system is specifically about the conversation thread — who is part of the ongoing AI-assisted discussion for that brief.
For information about managing who is on your team and what roles they have, see Roles and Permissions.
Key Capabilities
- Participant avatars: The document header shows an avatar cluster of current participants. The count is visible at a glance.
- Invite by name: Search for team members by display name in the invite dropdown.
- Join and leave: Participants can leave a brief thread if they no longer need to be involved. Non-participants can join at any time.
- Thread context shared: When you invite someone, they gain access to the full conversation thread for that brief, including prior messages.
- Real-time participation: Newly invited participants appear in the avatar cluster immediately. Their alignment votes show in the Activity tab as soon as they cast them.
Inviting Someone Who Is Not On Your Team
The invite dropdown only shows members of your current team account. If you need to collaborate with someone who is not yet on your team, you first need to invite them to the team. See Inviting Members.
Tips
- Invite stakeholders early so they can follow the brief's development in the chat thread rather than receiving a finished document with no context.
- For briefs that need formal sign-off, invite the relevant people and ask them to cast an alignment vote in the Activity tab. This creates a record of who agreed and when.
- If a brief has many participants, use the Activity tab to see whose attention you still need rather than manually tracking it.
- You do not need to invite someone as a thread participant just for them to see the brief document — all team members can read and edit briefs. Participation is specifically about the conversation thread.