Specialist Teams are now available in MySkillsSpace

The first version of Specialist Teams covers the complete core collaboration flow:

• create your own team,
• invite other specialists,
• accept or decline invitations,
• manage team members,
• manage roles and permissions,
• prepare a public team profile,
• present active members,
• create team services,
• publish team services in the services marketplace,
• distinguish between personal and team services,
• search for teams and specialists,
• receive notifications about invitations and team changes.

We did not build a separate, isolated product. Teams reuse existing MySkillsSpace mechanisms where it makes sense, including services, search and notifications.

Before release, we tested the complete process rather than individual screens:

create a team -> invite a specialist -> join -> manage members -> create a shared service -> publish -> present the team and service in MySkillsSpace.

This matters because simply allowing users to create a team would not yet make the feature complete. From the first release, we wanted users to be able to move from team creation to a published shared offer visible to other users.

Each team can have its own public profile.

It can present, among other things:

• the team name,
• a short description of its specialisation,
• how the team works,
• active members,
• services offered together,
• selected materials showing team experience,
• information a client needs to assess fit.

A team profile does not replace the profiles of its members. Every specialist still keeps their own profile and individual services.

A specialist can offer their own services while also participating in services published by a team.

Users must always be able to see who is providing a given service.

That is why we distinguish between:

personal service - offered by a specific specialist,

and

team service - offered by a specific team.

Both types can appear in the same search environment, while keeping their own provider and context.

A team needs clear management rules.

The team owner can therefore manage members and assign the appropriate level of permissions. The feature was designed so a team can grow without losing control over who can edit the profile, manage members or publish shared services.

Team membership alone does not automatically grant full management permissions.

Joining a team should not mean losing control over your own profile.

Teams were designed so they do not bypass the visibility and privacy rules assigned to a specialist's profile.

If a specialist uses restricted profile visibility, team membership alone should not automatically reveal information that remains hidden on their profile.

This is especially important in the MySkillsSpace approach, where skills can be assessed before full identity is revealed.

A team can act as a separate participant when communicating with a potential client.

This does not mean we added a separate internal chat for team members.

The goal is to let users contact the team as the service provider, without building another project communication tool in parallel.

A team in MySkillsSpace is a group of specialists who want to offer selected skills and services together.

It is not automatically:

• an employer,
• a company,
• an organisation,
• a formal business entity,
• a company account replacing specialist profiles.

This distinction matters. A team describes how skills and services are presented together on the platform. It does not define the legal status of the people who belong to it.

Not every problem can reasonably be solved by one person.

Sometimes the right answer is a specialist with a broad range of skills. In other cases, several people with complementary skills are the better choice.

We want MySkillsSpace to support both situations without forcing users to present work performed by several people as if it were a one-person service.

A team can therefore publish a shared offer when the actual delivery model is also team-based.

The release of Specialist Teams completes the first stage of this feature.

Future work may expand areas such as:

• shared team portfolio and case presentation,
• team availability,
• indicating openness to new members,
• better discovery of teams alongside individual specialists,
• further improvements to contacting a team as the service provider.

We do not want to add features simply to increase their number. Development will focus on what helps clients evaluate a team more effectively and helps specialists genuinely offer services together.

MySkillsSpace remains a place where concrete skills and evidence of competence come first.

Specialist Teams extend that idea to situations in which the best answer to a client's problem is not one person, but a well-matched combination of several specialists.

From today, such teams can be created, developed and presented together with their shared services in MySkillsSpace.