# Invite your team

You invite people by email. Only admins and the owner can invite.

## Send an invite

1. Select **Settings** in the sidebar, then **Manage members**.
2. Enter the person's email address.
3. Choose their org role: **Admin** or **Member**.
4. For a member, choose their brain role: **Read**, **Draft**, **Write**
   or **Approve**. Leave it on **Default** to give them your
   organisation's usual role. Admins always have Approve.
5. Select **Invite**.

They appear in the member list straight away. To choose the right roles,
see [Roles and what they allow](/team/roles).

## What they see

They get an email from ako with an **Accept invitation** link. The link
opens **Welcome to Ako**, where they choose a password and select
**Continue**. They land in your organisation, ready to go.

Invite links work once, and only for a short while. If theirs has
expired, ako tells them to ask you for a new one.

## Set the default for new members

Under **For all members** on the same page, **Brain role for new
members** sets the role an invite starts with. You can still pick a
different role for each invite.