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Roles + permissions · Working proposal

Who can
do what.

Explore each role’s people, feature set and permissions, with links to the stories and the current demo and review status.

Access levels

Public discovery, a free account and paid membership.

Working proposal

Visitor

Browse public content, person/organization pages and benefits/plans; arrive at Visitor Home. Register for personal actions and shared submissions; premium content has public descriptions only, with no trial.

Prospective reader · Aspirational explorer

Explore 54 features
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Registered user

Free Member workspace, own profile/public saves/follows and permitted interactions. After email verification, publish optional professional profile, create an organization or accept organization access. Shared content submission does not require paid membership.

Prospective reader · Aspirational explorer

Explore 106 features
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Paid member

Member workspace with free-account rights plus independently entitled paid-reader features. Professional labels and org assignments are separate; no automatic staff authority.

Deeply invested practitioner · Progressing participant · Aspirational explorer

Explore 151 features

Professional identities

Self-service labels share one person profile and Professional workspace. Verified credentials and reader membership remain separate.

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Creator

Self-service Creator label/portfolio on the same public person profile as any Guide/Athlete identities; one Professional workspace. Email verification before publication; verified claims and editorial publication remain separate.

Editorial creator

Explore 31 features
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Guide

Self-service Guide label, bio, qualifications, expertise/service areas, mutual affiliations and published work on the same person profile. No HOL signup approval; verified badge is separate. Paid professional features deferred.

Professional guide

Explore 32 features
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Professional athlete

Self-service Athlete label, disciplines, bio, mutually confirmed affiliations and published work on the same person profile; combined Professional workspace. Verified credential/identity claims and paid features remain separate.

Professional athlete

Explore 30 features

Organization access

Owners and accepted managers act within each named organization. Commercial Partner is an organization status.

Working proposal

Organization owner

Verified registered person with organization-scoped ownership: create/edit/publish basic page; invite/remove managers; initiate accepted ownership transfer; submit/accept Commercial Partner terms in follow-up. No HOL staff grant.

Organization owner or manager

Explore 26 features
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Organization manager

Verified invited person with accepted organization-specific management: edit/publish basic page, confirm/remove affiliations and prepare a partner application draft. Cannot manage team, transfer ownership or submit/accept partner terms.

Organization owner or manager

Explore 24 features

Scoped operators

Permissions apply to assigned responsibilities, with separate platform administration.

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Group moderator

Manage assigned groups, review reports, approve, hide, or remove group contributions, manage participation, and escalate serious issues. No platform-wide authority.

Group moderator

Explore 26 features
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Editor

Create/review/program canonical editorial content and separately approve sponsored material within assigned scope. Ordinary professional and basic organization-page publication do not require Editor approval.

HOL editor

Explore 43 features
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Commercial manager

HOL internal staff: manage partner relationships and normal organization ownership claims, requesting evidence/approving/declining with recorded reasons; escalate disputed/exceptional claims to Platform administrator. Commercial Partner application review is follow-up; sponsored-content approval remains separate.

HOL commercial manager

Explore 34 features
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Platform administrator

Assigned internal administration, security/access audit and disputed/exceptional organization-ownership recovery. Preserve personal accounts and unrelated permissions during org-scoped recovery; professional signup requires no HOL approval.

HOL platform administrator

Explore 33 features

Group Owner, Member Support, Partner Representative and Event Host are additional personas whose separate account permissions remain to be defined.

Stakeholder reference

About this preview.

Member screens use the language of the intended product. These notes explain what runs behind those screens and which decisions remain open.

Session behavior

Profile preferences, saves, follows, moderated contributions, reservations, membership selections and Shop orders use shared demo state. No real account, entitlement, charge, renewal, gift card, shipment, registration, message or email is created. Newsletter and contact forms stay local; Supabase and Resend are not connected.

While on a brief page, open Notifications in the header to generate example updates. Follow or join each source first and enable its preference. The toast, drawer, read state and destination work across the member experience; no push or email is sent.

Content + trust

Stories, gallery photography, people, professional credentials, events and moderation outcomes are seeded or illustrative. The archive contains fictional articles; no historical editorial catalog has been migrated. Guide verification and editorial review are demonstrated states, not completed real-world checks.

Search uses a curated local index and Home responds to explicit preferences. The map is a discovery basemap; a Whympr integration remains a proposal. Field plans and guide sessions provide no live conditions, navigation, route recommendations or individualized safety advice. Exact member location is not collected.

Commerce decisions

Print subscriptions and gifts use current US offers from Backcountry’s subscription page. Product images, representative issues, goods and gift-card amounts come from HOL’s store and its gift-card listing, checked October 7–8, 2026. Inventory, issue variants, tax and shipping are not synced.

Connected digital memberships, combined plans and connected gifts are proposals. Prices, terms, edition entitlements, renewal and recipient redemption require HOL decisions; member screens label them Coming soon. Store gift cards remain separate from gift subscriptions, and membership redemption is unresolved. The existing digital-edition app is a separate product.