Teams are how collaborators share projects and funding on Connect. If you're on an enterprise account, it's important to understand the difference between personal teams and organizational teams. They look similar in the interface but behave very differently when it comes to funding and oversight.

What a Team Is

A team is a workspace where one or more researchers collaborate on projects and share a common wallet. Teams exist on both standard Connect and Connect Enterprise. A researcher can belong to multiple teams and can be the owner of some while collaborating on others.

Teams can be created two ways:

• By members themselves. Any member with an enterprise account can create a team.
• By org admins. You can create teams on behalf of members from the Organization dashboard. Admin-created teams can be pre-funded before members start using them, which is useful when you already know how funds should be allocated.

Organizational Teams

Organizational teams belong to your enterprise account. They're the only teams that can request funds from your organizational wallet. When a member requests funds, the funds go into the team's wallet — never into the member's personal balance.

This separation is intentional. It keeps institution-owned funds tied to institution-owned work, prevents funds from drifting into personal use, and gives you a clear audit trail of how budget is allocated.

Organizational teams are labeled as such on the team's detail view.

Personal Teams

Personal teams are teams a member creates outside the organizational structure, or teams they already had before joining your enterprise account. When a researcher with an existing Connect account is added to your enterprise, their prior work and any teams they belonged to remain intact — those become personal teams.

Personal teams cannot request funds from the organizational wallet. They're funded by the individual researcher, typically with a personal credit card or their own Connect balance. They remain fully available to the researcher so they don't lose access to past work.

The practical effect is that an enterprise member can run personal research alongside institution-funded research, with no mingling of funds.

Why This Matters for Admins

When you approve a funding request, the funds flow to the member's organizational team — never to their personal balance or a personal team. This is the core quality-control mechanism of the enterprise account.

If a member tells you they can't request org funds for a particular project, the most likely answer is that the project is attached to a personal team. They'll need to create an organizational team for that work — or move the project to an existing one — to access institution funds.