Roles & Access

The two Dispatch roles, what each one can see and do, and how they relate to DarcyIQ roles

Dispatch has two roles of its own: Dispatch User and Dispatch Admin. They're separate from your DarcyIQ organization role. Being a DarcyIQ admin doesn't make you a Dispatch Admin, and a Dispatch Admin doesn't need to be a DarcyIQ admin.

The Roles

Role	Who it's for	What they can do
Dispatch User	Anyone who calls models through Dispatch	Create and manage their own API keys, see their own allowance and usage, browse models and cookbooks, and run cost reports on their own spend
Dispatch Admin	Whoever runs Dispatch for the organization	Everything a User can do, plus every person and key in the organization, budgets and allowances, guardrails, model access, data residency, tags, provider keys, and organization-wide usage

Each role includes everything below it, so a Dispatch Admin can always do what a Dispatch User can.

What Each Role Sees

Page	Dispatch User	Dispatch Admin
Overview	Their own keys and spend	The whole organization
Cost Reporting	✓	✓
Insights	✓	✓
API Keys	Their own keys	Every key in the organization
Models	✓	✓
Cookbooks	✓	✓
Organization	—	✓
Users	—	✓

Limits belong to the person, not the key. A Dispatch User can create as many keys as they need, but they all draw on the same allowance. Making a tenth key doesn't give anyone more to spend. Only a Dispatch Admin can change a person's allowance or guardrail, using Change budget on the API Keys page.

Getting a Role

How someone gets Dispatch depends on whether they already have a DarcyIQ login:

• New to DarcyIQ — A Dispatch Admin invites them from the Users page and picks their Dispatch role in the same step.

• Already has a DarcyIQ login — Dispatch is granted to them in the DarcyIQ Platform.

Each person uses a Dispatch seat, and seats are managed in the DarcyIQ Platform. If an invitation goes out but the seat is refused, check your organization's available seats there.

Next Steps

Goal	Documentation
Invite people and set their allowances	Users
Set organization-wide budgets and policy	Organization Settings
Create your first key	Quickstart