Melp
External Collaboration

Contractor collaboration built for high turnover

Crews are on site for weeks, not years. Melp helps them get productive faster with access scoped to one project and makes offboarding easier when the work ends.

A Melp project workspace with external contractors joining from mobile devices

Operational requirements

Short engagements need faster, narrower access

Contractor collaboration succeeds when onboarding, daily work, and offboarding keep pace with the engagement itself.

Generic guest access

  • Provisioning starts with a ticket. Several paid days can pass before a short-term specialist reaches the files and people they need.
  • Access spreads beyond the job. Broad guest accounts expose teams, projects, or commercial context unrelated to the contract.
  • Offboarding becomes a reminder. Dormant access remains until someone remembers every system the contractor joined.

Project-scoped access in Melp

  • Project owners invite directly. Contractors join with an existing identity and start inside the workspace for their assignment.
  • Membership follows the work. Crews see only the project, topics, and documents they were explicitly added to.
  • One workspace closes the loop. Administrators can review and remove project access from one governed surface when the engagement ends.
Give each crew exactly the context it needs
Project-scoped access

Give each crew exactly the context it needs

Individual contractors enter the project workspace they are staffed on. Subcontractor crews can be narrowed further to a work-package topic, while internal coordination and commercial discussions remain private.

  • Current drawings, method statements, and site documents
  • Topic-level membership for subcontractor crews
  • No visibility into unrelated sites or projects
  • External membership visible to project owners
End access when the crew demobilizes
Clean offboarding

End access when the crew demobilizes

Project administrators can review membership, retain the work record, and remove external access in one place. The project history stays with the organization after the crew leaves.

  • Central membership and access review
  • Workspace-level revocation
  • Retention settings and record export
  • Logged administrative actions
What changes

The shifts that matter with contingent labor

The value is less paid time lost to provisioning, cleaner exits, and a governed channel crews can use on site.

Faster project starts preview

Faster project starts

Remove license purchasing and long provisioning queues from short engagements.

Deliberate offboarding preview

Deliberate offboarding

End access at the project workspace instead of relying on a scattered checklist.

Governed mobile coordination preview

Governed mobile coordination

Give field crews a practical mobile channel for files, updates, calls, and translation.

Contractor collaboration FAQ

Questions from project and operations teams

Access, cost and mobile use.

No. External participants join with existing Google, Microsoft, or Melp identity and do not consume your licenses. This matters beyond cost: when external accounts are billable, organizations have a quiet incentive to keep dormant ones around.

Onboard your next crew without access sprawl

Create a project workspace, invite the contractors starting this week, and see how long demobilization takes when access is scoped to the job.