Spaces
Create and manage spaces, control who can see them, and import or export your data.
Everything you do in Naumu happens inside a space. A space is a self-contained workspace built around one knowledge graph (a network of connected information), and it holds its own members, threads, notes, canvases, and settings.
This article walks through the full life of a space: creating one, describing it, controlling who can see it, backing it up, handing it off, and deleting it.
Create a space
From your home hub, type a name into the Create new space field and submit, or use the Create new space dialog. A name is the only thing required up front — you can fill in everything else later.
Once the space exists, you become its owner, with full control over its settings, members, and lifecycle.
You can also create a space by importing a backup (see Export and import a backup) — useful when you want to start from an existing copy rather than an empty graph.
Name and description
You can rename a space at any time, as long as you have at least admin rights: open Space Settings, edit the Name field, and click Save.
The description is a short, 2-3 sentence summary. It does double duty — it appears on the card shown on the public landing page, and it gives context to every AI agent working inside the space. Keeping it accurate matters: if the description is wrong, the agents work from the wrong picture.
You can manage the description in two ways:
- Auto-refresh on — Naumu rewrites the description for you as the space evolves, after a short pause in your edits.
- Auto-refresh off — the description stays exactly as you wrote it.
You can also click Generate (or Regenerate) to have Naumu draft a description on demand, or write your own and click Save.
Visibility
Every node (a single piece of information in your graph) has a visibility setting — one of Open, Internal, or Restricted. Each space sets a default node visibility — the level that new nodes start with. Owners and admins choose it under Space Settings → Visibility; Internal is the recommended default for most teams. See Members & sharing for what each level means.
This is only a default, not a hard ceiling. It sets the starting point for new nodes, and you can share any individual node more or less broadly from there.
Public spaces
A space can also reach beyond its member list by going public. Under Space Settings → Public Access, an owner or admin switches the space to public after confirming. Once it is public:
- Anyone on the internet can view content marked Open in the space.
- Internal and Restricted content stays hidden.
- Editing still requires being an invited member — public access is read-only.
A shareable link in the form /spaces/<slug> then appears, with a Copy Link button. Public spaces also show up in the community Explore public spaces browser, where anyone can search them by name. To remove public access, switch back to Make Private at any time.
Export and import a backup
You can take a full backup of a space as a single JSON file, then restore it later — either on its own or into a brand-new space.
- Export (admins and above) — under Space Settings → Backups, click Export Space to backup. Naumu downloads a
naumu-export-<name>-<date>.jsonfile containing your space's data. - Import — click Import Space from backup in settings, or Import from backup on your home hub, then choose a
.jsonbackup. Naumu checks the file, then creates a new space from it. (It never overwrites an existing space.)
During import, Naumu may show warnings — for example, a property that needs converting, or an attachment that can't be copied. Review them and continue; the import still completes. Once it finishes, you can jump straight into the new space.
Import always produces a new space. Use it to clone, migrate, or recover — not to merge data into a space that already exists.
Transfer ownership
An owner can hand a space to another member under Space Settings → Danger Zone → Transfer ownership. Pick a member — you can only transfer to someone already in the space — and they become the new owner with full admin rights. You stay on as an admin.
On paid spaces, billing stays with you after a transfer. To hand off billing too, cancel the subscription and let the new owner resubscribe on their own card.
If you try to leave a space you own, ownership transfers to another member first; if there are no other members, the space is deleted. Owners of paid spaces must transfer ownership before leaving.
Usage metrics
The Usage settings tab shows how much the space is consuming for the current billing period:
- Nodes — the entities stored in the space's knowledge graph (capped, or unlimited on higher tiers).
- Shared interactions — AI interactions pooled across everyone in the space, with optional extra capacity on top.
- Per-member usage — those interactions broken down by member for the period.
Owners can also top up shared capacity from here.
Delete a space
Deleting is permanent. Under Space Settings → Danger Zone, an owner or admin can choose Delete space and confirm. This removes the space and all of its content — nodes, threads, notes, canvases, and members — with no undo. On a paid space, deleting also cancels the active subscription right away, with no refund for the current period.
There is no recovery after deletion. If you might want the data later, export a backup first.
Related
- Claude — connect AI clients like Claude and ChatGPT to your spaces over MCP.