A different kind of user, not a trimmed-down one
A role can be marked as being for outside users, and from then on the system treats whoever holds it as someone from another company.
The product says it plainly
The role editor spells out the rule: "People from another company, like a subcontractor or a client. They only get areas about a job — at most Standard, and View on Jobs — and only the jobs they’re on."
Only the jobs they are on
Job access narrows to the jobs where they are on the team. A job outside that set does not come back as forbidden — it comes back as not found, which tells them nothing about what else exists.
Only job-shaped areas
Jobs, submittals, shifts, time entries, task sheets, expenses, project tracker and the pay applications you have sent. Never the customer list, never vendors, never settings, never billing, never audit logs.
Capped, and capped lower where it matters
The ceiling is Standard, and lower where it should be: View only on Jobs, because a job is your company’s record, and View only on pay applications, because they read what you sent, never a draft.
