diff --git a/blog/260803-company-owners.md b/blog/260803-company-owners.md
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+---
+title: "Introducing company owners"
+date: "2026-08-03"
+tags: ["Product", "Update"]
+hide_table_of_contents: true
+authors: rharrison
+---
+
+You can now assign owners to your companies in the Codat Portal and control which companies your users can access.
+
+<!--truncate-->
+
+## What's new?
+
+One or more owners can optionally be assigned to a company when creating or editing it in the Portal.
+
+We've also introduced a new **company permissions** setting. When enabled for your organization, users with the [Onboarding, Advisor, or Analyst role](/configure/user-management/user-roles) can only access companies they've been assigned to as an owner. Administrator and Developer users retain access to all companies.
+
+## Who is it relevant for?
+
+Clients who want to establish clear ownership of their companies, or need to control which of their users can access which companies' data - for example, banks that need to restrict client data visibility internally.
+
+## How to get started?
+
+Owner assignment is available to all clients today - simply assign owners when creating or editing a company in the Portal.
+
+To enable the company permissions setting for your organization, contact your account manager or our support team.
diff --git a/blog/authors.yml b/blog/authors.yml
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--- a/blog/authors.yml
+++ b/blog/authors.yml
@@ -189,3 +189,9 @@ brucepouncey:
   title: Product Engineer
   url: https://github.com/brucepouncey
   image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/229920420?v=4
+
+rharrison:
+  name: Rob Harrison
+  title: Senior Software Engineer
+  url: https://github.com/Rob-Codat
+  image_url: https://github.com/Rob-Codat.png
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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     "format:js:check": "prettier --check \"**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}\"",
     "format:mdx": "prettier --write \"**/*.{md,mdx}\"",
     "format:mdx:check": "prettier --check \"**/*.{md,mdx}\"",
-    "links:check": "linkinator ./build --recurse --verbosity error --timeout 20000 --concurrency 25 --retry --skip \".*github.*\"",
+    "links:check": "linkinator ./build --recurse --verbosity error --timeout 20000 --concurrency 25 --retry --skip \".*github.*\" --skip \"https://docs.codat.io\"",
     "vale:sync": "vale sync",
     "vale": "vale docs/",
     "vale:check": "vale --minAlertLevel=warning docs/",