Core concepts
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The model
- Workspace — the host team’s account (
alignlane.app/{workspace}). - Relationship — one partner organization you deliver with, e.g. Acme.
- Board — a shared lane for one piece of delivery inside a relationship, e.g. “Website relaunch”.
- Task — a unit of shared work with a status, owner side, optional due date and source link.
Host, partner, shared
Every task has owner_side = host | partner | shared — who owns the next move. Marketing calls these agency and client; the product keeps neutral roles so the same model works for consultancies, studios and vendors.
Every task also has visibility = internal | shared. Internal tasks never leave the host team.
The shared projection
When shared work changes, AlignLane regenerates a sanitized snapshot containing only shared tasks and shared fields. Public boards, private links and the partner view read this snapshot. Internal notes are not filtered at render time — they are never in the payload.
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