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What this article shows you

Share one supported connected account with your StefanBrain team without sending teammates the account login. The person who connected the account keeps control of access, permissions, reconnects and disconnection.

Practical use cases

Analyze shared Meta data without publishing

Give analysts access to supported Meta read and analysis workflows while Can publish ads stays off.

Give the team one data view

Let approved teammates work from the same ad, landing-page or company data instead of separate exports.

Reuse one company connection

Let teammates use a supported company account through StefanBrain without distributing its credential.

Keep work moving across shifts

Let another operator continue from the same company source while the connection stays with its owner.

Separate company and personal access

Keep both accounts available, then name the shared company account in the request that should use it.

Video walkthrough

Share a connected company account, enable it as a teammate, and verify one read-only result.

How team connector sharing works

Team access covers the connected provider account as a whole. It does not add folder-level or resource-level limits inside that account.
Use a narrower company account when the full connected account contains more than the team should access. The credential stays server-side. A teammate uses the owner’s connection without receiving its token.
For generic connector tools, reads without a separate Team setting inherit the owner’s effective permission. Writes without a Team setting become Needs approval. Meta uses Can publish ads instead, and it starts off for each teammate. Custom MCP connectors cannot be shared in this version.

What you will do

  1. Open the connected company account.
  2. Turn on Team access and choose the teammates who need it.
  3. Review Team tool permissions or Meta’s Can publish ads setting.
  4. Have a teammate turn on Use in my chats.
  5. Verify the account with one predictable read.

Before you start

  • The owner and teammate must be active members of the same StefanBrain team.
  • The account must be connected and show Team access.
  • Prepare one company source with a result you already know.

Follow along

1

Open the connected account as its owner

Open Connectors. Under Your connectors, choose the exact company account the team should use.If Team access is missing, confirm that the connection belongs to you and supports sharing. Custom MCP connectors do not.
Glow Labs Drive connector detail showing Team access set to Not shared and separate read and write tool permission groups

The owner's connected Google Drive account shows Team access as Not shared before anyone else can use it.

2

Turn on Team access

Turn on Team access. Confirm the state changes to Shared with team and the member list appears.
Glow Labs Drive connector detail showing Shared with team, an enabled Team member, and the separate You and Team permission profiles

After Team access is enabled, the owner sees Shared with team and can include or exclude each teammate independently.

3

Exclude members who should not use it

Leave the intended teammates on. Turn off access for anyone who should not use this account. This does not affect other included teammates.
4

Set the permission boundary

For a connector with Tool permissions, select Team beside You and review the tools teammates may run.For Meta, use the separate Can publish ads switch. Leave it off for teammates who only need read and analysis access.
5

Enable the account as a teammate

The teammate opens Connectors, finds the account under Shared with you, and turns on Use in my chats. This changes only their own Chat connector menu.
Teammate view of Glow Labs Drive shared by Operations Owner with Use in my chats enabled, read-only tools allowed and write or delete tools requiring approval

The teammate view identifies the shared company account, its owner and the enabled Use in my chats control in one contextual frame.

6

Run a read-only verification in Chat

Open a Chat and enable the provider under Connectors. If personal and shared accounts coexist, name the company account in the request.
Compare the response with the known document before using the connection for a larger workflow.
Chat request using the shared Glow Labs Drive account followed by the Glow Labs campaign brief promise and audience note and a read-only verification confirmation

A concrete read-only request returns the approved promise and audience note from the shared company brief without changing the source.

Verify the result

The owner should see Shared with team with the teammate enabled. The teammate should see Shared with you, have Use in my chats on, and receive the expected approved promise and audience note.
The teammate can now use the intended shared account from Chat. The provider credential remains with the connection owner.

Understand later changes

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

Confirm that you opened your own connected account under Your connectors. Custom MCP connectors do not support team sharing.
Confirm the teammate is active on the same StefanBrain team. Then check Team access and their member switch.
The teammate turned off their own preference. Open the account under Shared with you and turn on Use in my chats.
Personal and shared accounts can coexist. Name the shared company account and source in the next request.
The Team permission is Needs approval, or no Team write permission is set. Choose Approve once or ask the owner to change the Team setting.
Can publish ads starts off for every teammate. The connection owner must enable it for that member.
Send the owner the provider and account name. The teammate cannot reconnect or disconnect a shared account, but they can add their own account.
Team access cannot create that boundary. Use a provider account with narrower access, or do not share the connection.

Next steps