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Zones and permissions

A zone is an area of your Mind, such as Finance, Customers or Hiring. You choose who can open each zone and what they can do there: read it, suggest a change, or approve one.

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System mapHow your Mind checks access

Mensara checks who is asking and what they want to do before it opens anything in your Mind.

  1. Person or agent asks

    who they are and what they want

  2. Check their access

    zone and action

  3. Show or change it

    only when allowed

  4. Refuse and record

    who asked, the action and the zone

What a zone is

Zones keep different parts of the company separate. Payroll can sit in Finance, interview notes in Hiring and account plans in Customers.

People see the zone names. They don't need to know where the files sit on the server.

One account for each person

Every team member signs in with their own account. Their connected agents work within that person's access, never more.

That lets your Mind record who asked for information or tried to change it.

Choose what they can do

Reading a zone, suggesting a change and approving a change are separate permissions. You can let someone read Finance without letting them change it, or let them suggest changes that someone else approves.

Save it as an access profile. A Sales profile, for example, gives everyone on the sales team the same access to customer information.

When access is refused

Mensara checks access in software before a file is searched, read or changed. No model decides who sees what.

Searches leave out zones a person can't read. A direct request for a protected file is refused and recorded. The record shows who asked, what kind of action it was, the zone and that it was refused. It doesn't store the request text or the protected information.

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# Zones and permissions

How Mensara works · Store and share knowledge · [How it works](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works)

A zone is an area of your Mind, such as Finance, Customers or Hiring. You choose who can open each zone and what they can do there: read it, suggest a change, or approve one.

### How your Mind checks access

Mensara checks who is asking and what they want to do before it opens anything in your Mind.

1. Person or agent asks: who they are and what they want
2. Check their access: zone and action
3. Show or change it: only when allowed
4. Refuse and record: who asked, the action and the zone

## What a zone is

Zones keep different parts of the company separate. Payroll can sit in Finance, interview notes in Hiring and account plans in Customers.

People see the zone names. They don't need to know where the files sit on the server.

## One account for each person

Every team member signs in with their own account. Their connected agents work within that person's access, never more.

That lets your Mind record who asked for information or tried to change it.

## Choose what they can do

Reading a zone, suggesting a change and approving a change are separate permissions. You can let someone read Finance without letting them change it, or let them suggest changes that someone else approves.

Save it as an access profile. A Sales profile, for example, gives everyone on the sales team the same access to customer information.

## When access is refused

Mensara checks access in software before a file is searched, read or changed. No model decides who sees what.

Searches leave out zones a person can't read. A direct request for a protected file is refused and recorded. The record shows who asked, what kind of action it was, the zone and that it was refused. It doesn't store the request text or the protected information.

## Example: Finance access for a new hire

A new operations hire can read budgets in Finance and suggest updates, but can't open Payroll or approve changes. Payroll files are left out of their agent's searches, and any attempt to open one is refused.

## Status: Available now

STATUS · CHECKED 3 OCTOBER 2026

Zones, per-person access, access profiles and recorded refusals are available on configured Minds. An agent can't widen the access of the person it works for. Only the owner, or an admin the owner allows, can change access.

## Related

- [Give each person and their agent the right access](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/right-access)
- [Know what an agent may read or change](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/read-and-propose)

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