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You have been assigned as the Business Owner of one or more applications. This page explains what that means and what AccessOwl will ask of you.

What is a Business Owner?

Each application in AccessOwl has exactly one Business Owner. You are typically a team lead who oversees the app’s budget and approvals rather than its day-to-day operations. As the Business Owner you:
  • are responsible for spend management of your application
  • can be assigned as a dedicated approver in the app’s approval policies
  • can serve as a reviewer in access reviews for the app
If your application has no Application Admin assigned, you also receive its provisioning and deprovisioning requests until one is added.

What you have access to

In the AccessOwl web interface you can view your owned applications and their data, add spend data for them, and request or revoke access like any other user. The exact permissions are listed in the AccessOwl Roles matrix.

What you’ll be asked to do

Requests reach you in Slack, so there is nothing to install or check proactively. Follow these guides when they do:

Access Reviews

Learn how to conduct an access review.

Providing access to an application

Learn how to process an access request.
For role assignment, what happens when an Owner leaves, and more details, see Application Admins & Business Owners.
Last modified on August 18, 2026