# Lab is now a focused 5-person team

> The Lab plan now seats a principal investigator and four researchers, five editing seats in all, with unlimited view-only peer reviewers unchanged.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/changelog/lab-focused-team/
Published: 2026-07-25

We have reshaped the Lab plan around how research groups actually work together.

## What is new

- **A focused team of five.** Lab now seats 1 PI plus 4 researchers, for 5 editing seats in all, so the plan matches a working lab rather than an open-ended roster.
- **Reviewers stay unlimited.** You can still invite as many view-only peer reviewers as you need. They read assigned manuscripts and leave feedback without taking an editing seat.

Everything else about Lab stays the same: shared workspaces, role-based access, the Frontier AI model, unlimited plagiarism checks, and the supervisor review workflow.