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# Manager

> Higher permissions. Approves new clients, sees the whole pipeline, queries style lifecycles.

# Manager

Managers have the broader view. They approve high-stakes actions, see every RFQ in
flight, and need consistent answers to "what is happening with X?" without digging
through email threads.

**Day-one manager:** Zean.

## What a manager can do

* Create new client records (or approve merchandiser-prepared drafts)
* View the full RFQ pipeline (every active style, owner, stage, last action, risk)
* Query the status of any style, client, or order via [Ask](/brain/staging/architecture/ui-structure)
* Review staff response time across the team
* See overdue tasks and ownership gaps
* Access analytics, traces, and audit trails
* Approve quotation emails when escalation is required
* Approve pricing exceptions

## What managers don't do day-to-day

* Run the per-RFQ workflows themselves — that's the merchandiser's job
* Manually assemble pipeline reports — Brain produces them
* Hunt through email threads for the current status of a style — Brain answers it

## Zean's typical day in Brain

A representative slice:

**Morning**

* Open [Oversight](/brain/staging/workflows/oversight) view. See the live pipeline.
* Three risk flags: Lulus quote cold for 7 days, ASOS RFQ unassigned, Jaspal style
  missing true cost after 3 days.
* Click Lulus row, see full timeline of the negotiation, write a follow-up nudge to
  the merchandiser owner.
* Click ASOS row, reassign to a merchandiser with capacity.
* Click Jaspal row, see Mai is blocked on missing button price — message
  sourcing.

**Mid-morning**

* Receive a draft for a new client record (prepared by a merchandiser, awaiting
  manager approval). Review the extracted fields, fix the incoterm, approve.
  Client is written to CutMake.

**Afternoon**

* Ask Brain: "Show all RFQs with quotations sent in the last 14 days that have
  no client reply." Get a list with timestamps and the original quote price for
  each. Decide which to follow up personally.
* Ask Brain: "What's the average margin we submitted to Jaspal in Q3?" Get an
  answer with source-linked quote PDFs.

The key shift: visibility is a query, not a multi-hour spreadsheet.

## Permissions a manager grants

Managers can grant specific permissions to merchandisers:

* Client-creation permission (per-merchandiser)
* Pricing-exception approval (per-merchandiser, with margin band)
* Cross-client visibility

These are recorded in Brain's permission table with the granting manager and a
reason. Auditable.

## Related

* [Merchandiser](/brain/staging/roles/merchandiser) — who does the day-to-day work
* [Manager Queries](/brain/staging/workflows/manager-queries) — how Ask works
* [Oversight Agent](/brain/staging/workflows/oversight) — what the pipeline view
  shows