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Labrador projects are built for collaboration. As the project owner, you can invite teammates directly into a project and assign each person a role that matches what they need to do. Some roles can be given to anyone with an email address; others require the invited person to already be on a paid Labrador plan of their own. This page explains both, and walks through the invitation and acceptance flow.
This page is about project collaboration: inviting people into an individual project you own. That is separate from the Teams feature, which requires a paid plan of its own. Nothing on this page depends on you, the project owner, being on a paid plan.

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Who can invite collaborators

Only the project owner, meaning the person who created the project, can send invitations. Project Admins can change a collaborator’s role and remove collaborators, but they cannot invite new people. Ownership is not a role that can be assigned to someone else.

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Roles

When you invite a collaborator, you can choose one of three roles. A fourth role, Admin, is not available at invitation time; you can only grant it later by changing an existing collaborator’s role. A few points that catch people out:
  • The paid plan requirement applies to the invited person’s own account, not yours. You paying for a plan does not grant editing rights to anyone else.
  • Labrador enforces the paid-account requirement both when inviting and when changing a collaborator’s role later. You cannot invite someone as View Only or Developer and then promote them to Edit or Admin unless their own account is on a paid plan at that point.
  • A newly created Labrador account is on a trial and counts as free for this rule. If a colleague just signed up, they cannot be given Edit or Admin until they move onto a paid plan. Having an account is not the same as having a paid account.

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Inviting a collaborator

1

Open your project

From the Projects dashboard, click the project you want to add a collaborator to. Only the project owner will see the invite controls.
2

Open the Teammates panel

Find the Teammates button in the project view and click it.
3

Enter the collaborator's email address

Type the email address of the person you want to invite.
4

Choose their role

Pick View Only, Developer, or Edit. If you are inviting someone as Edit, their account must already exist and already be on a paid plan.
5

Send the invitation

Click Invite. Labrador emails the invitation to that address.

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Accepting an invitation

Every collaborator must be signed in to accept an invitation. What that looks like depends on whether they already have a Labrador account:
  • They already have an account. They follow the link in the email, sign in, and land on the project.
  • They do not have an account. The invitation page offers both Sign in and Create an account. They can create a free account right there, and Labrador returns them to the invitation once they finish.
This is the answer to the most common question we hear: yes, a developer with no Labrador account and no subscription can follow an invite link, create a free account, and start reviewing and commenting on your issues. Invite them as Developer, send them the link, and they can do the rest themselves.

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Changing a role or removing a collaborator

The project owner and any Admin can change a collaborator’s role or remove them from the project through the Teammates panel. The same paid-account rule applies when promoting someone to Edit or Admin: the invited person’s own account must be on a paid plan at the moment you make the change. Removing a collaborator revokes their access immediately, but their contributions stay intact. Issues they logged, comments they left, and criterion results they recorded remain in the project exactly as they were.
Removing a collaborator cannot be undone from within the project. To restore their access, send a new invitation and reassign their role.

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Answers to common questions

Yes. Invite them as Developer. When they follow the invitation link, Labrador will let them create a free account and drop them straight back into the project. Developer role lets them view the audit, comment on issues, and update remediation status without needing a paid plan.
Only if that colleague is themselves on a paid plan. Your plan is not the constraint. The paid-account requirement applies to the invited person’s own account.
A newly created account is on a trial, which counts as free for this rule. They need to be on a paid plan of their own before you can assign them Edit or Admin.
Only once their own account is on a paid plan. The same requirement applies at role-change time as at invite time, so there is no way to add someone as View Only or Developer and promote them to Edit without them paying for their own plan first.
For a full breakdown of what each plan includes, see the Plans and Pricing page.