Smartcat's new navigation: admin guide
Overview
This article covers admin-only pages in Smartcat's new navigation. For everyday pages — projects, the editor, Translation Memories — see Smartcat's new navigation: a quick guide.
The sidebar now lists New chat, Projects, Drive, Direct Messages, and Intelligence Fabric. Open your account settings from the account menu at the bottom-left of the sidebar.
New chat and Intelligence Fabric are available to every user, including linguists, and are switched on for the whole workspace rather than per user. What each user can do there follows their access level (Account menu → Settings → User Access levels). New chat (Chief of Staff) respects the same access levels, so anything a user's role does not allow — for example, editing Translation Memories or managing users — still cannot be done through chat either.
When to use it
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You're an admin or workspace owner looking for a settings, billing, or team-management page that moved
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You need to set up integrations, translation profiles, or new AI features for your workspace
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You're onboarding a new admin and want to show them where things are now
How to use it
Use the tables below to find where an admin feature you used before now lives.
Project templates and workflows
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Create or edit project templates | Intelligence Fabric → Workflows | Settings → Templates → Project templates |
| Set up automations | Intelligence Fabric → Workflows | Not available before |
| Manage assignment templates | Account menu → Team → Assignment settings → Templates | Team → Assignment templates |
| Set up AI assignments | Account menu → Team → AI Assignments | Settings → AI assignments |
Team, vendors, and clients
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Manage team members | Account menu → Team → Team Members | Team |
| Manage your vendors | Account menu → Team → My Vendors | Team → My vendors |
| Find freelancers | Account menu → Team → Find Freelancers | Marketplace |
| Find a translation vendor | Account menu → Team → Find a Vendor | Marketplace → Translation companies |
| Post a job to the Job Board | Account menu → Team → Job Board | Marketplace → Job board |
| Manage clients | Account menu → Clients | Clients |
Integrations
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Manage integrations | Intelligence Fabric → Connections → Integrations | Integrations |
| Add a new integration | Intelligence Fabric → Connections → Integrations | Integrations → Browse |
| Website translation | Intelligence Fabric → Connections → Integrations → Website translation | Integrations → Website translation |
| Connect AI tools (MCP) | Intelligence Fabric → Connections → MCPs | Not available before |
Translation setup
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Manage translation skills and engines | Intelligence Fabric → Smartcat Coworkers → Translator → Translation Skills | Settings → MT Engine Presets |
| Manage AI translation profiles | Intelligence Fabric → Smartcat Coworkers → Translator → Translation Profiles | Settings → AI translation profiles |
| See available AI models | Intelligence Fabric → Knowledge → AI models | Not available before |
| Manage LQA profiles | Use this link (no menu entry — worth bookmarking) | Settings → LQA profiles |
Reports and billing
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| View reports | Account menu → Reports | Reports |
| Open reporting apps | Apps (sidebar) | Apps |
| View work statistics | Account menu → Work statistics | Work statistics |
| See Smartwords usage | Account menu → Finance and payments → Smartwords Usage | Smartwords |
| Pay vendors / view jobs | Account menu → Finance and payments → Jobs | Payments → Jobs |
| Set vendor net rates | Account menu → Finance and payments → Net Rate Schemas | Payments → Settings |
| Invoices, balance, billing details | Account menu → Finance and payments | Payments |
Workspace settings
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Custom fields, placeholders, file formats, XML import, task tags, domains, custom fonts | Account menu → Settings → Workspace | Settings |
| User access levels | Account menu → Settings → User Access levels | Settings → Access levels |
| API and credentials | Account menu → Settings → API / Credentials | Settings → API |
| Manage the organization and workspaces | Account menu → Settings → Manage organization | Workspace menu → Manage organization |
New AI features
| I want to... | Now go to | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Set up Chief of Staff (the AI assistant) | Intelligence Fabric → Chief of Staff | Not available before |
| Choose what Chief of Staff can do | Intelligence Fabric → Skills | Not available before |
| Set up AI coworkers (Translator, Reviewer, QA and more) | Intelligence Fabric → Smartcat Coworkers | Not available before |
| Read briefs and signals | Intelligence Fabric → Briefs / Knowledge → Signals | Not available before |
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