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Removing Team Members

When someone leaves the team, removal is one-click — but the order of operations matters. Here's the safe path: reassign first, remove second, audit third.

4 min readUpdated May 2026

Overview

Removing a member revokes all workspace access immediately. Their cards, comments, and history stay — labelled as "Former Member" — but assignments are cleared. Only Admins can remove members.

https://gryphin.app/workspace/settings/members
Remove Alex Morgan?
They will lose access to Acme immediately. Their cards stay but will show as "Former Member."
Will affect
  • · 12 assigned cards
  • · 3 boards they own
  • · 1 active automation
The remove flow — three-dot menu on any row, with a confirmation dialog.

What happens on removal

Access revoked

All boards, cards, comments, and integrations the user touched lose their session within seconds.

Content preserved

Cards, comments, and history they authored remain — just attributed to "Former Member."

Assignments cleared

They're unassigned from every card automatically. Reassign manually or via automation.

API tokens revoked

Any personal API keys or webhook subscriptions tied to their account stop working immediately.

Removing a member

1

Open workspace settings → Members

You must be an Admin. Members and Viewers can't see this option.

2

Find the person

Search by name or email.

3

Open the row menu

Three-dot menu at the right of their row → "Remove from workspace."

4

Confirm in the dialog

Gryphin shows the blast radius — number of assignments, owned boards, automations they're part of. Confirm to proceed.

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Warning
Removing the workspace owner requires Transfer Ownership first. You cannot remove the last Admin — Gryphin blocks the action with a clear error.

Before you remove

Especially for high-impact members, run this checklist:

Reassign their cards

Filter the board by their name and bulk-reassign before removing. Otherwise cards become orphaned.

Reassign board ownership

Any board they own needs a new owner. Open each board → Settings → Transfer ownership.

Audit automations

Rules they authored keep running. Check Settings → Automations and update authorship.

Export their work (if needed)

For audit-heavy industries, export their assigned cards before removal. Comes as a JSON or CSV.

Re-adding someone later

Removed members can be re-invited any time. They keep their history — re-joining re-attributes their old content from "Former Member" back to their name.

Need to do this often?

Business plans support SCIM. When someone is deactivated in your IdP, they're removed from Gryphin automatically — same day, no manual cleanup.

SCIM auto-deprovision

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