# What Copilot can see

It sees what you can already see, and no more. Permissions in one picture.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## It borrows your keys.

*Picture: One large box labelled your keys.*

Not a special set. Yours.

## The building is bigger than your keys.

*Picture: A dashed frame labelled the building holding four rooms, two of them green and two plain.*

Most of it was never yours to open.

## The rule is that simple.

*Picture: Two rows of doors. The top row unlocked and green, the bottom row with amber padlocks.*

If a door is shut to you, it is shut to it.

## The risk is the other way.

*Picture: A box labelled a file shared with everyone, in amber, inside the building frame.*

A file left open to everyone was always findable. Now somebody finds it.

## Tidy first.

*Picture: A green box labelled tidy the sharing with an arrow into a box labelled before you switch it on.*

Every organisation learns this in the same order.

## Do today

Open one folder at work and check who it is actually shared with.

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