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Demo mode is a flag on a Layer organization that turns it into a fully-populated synthetic workspace. It exists so prospects, internal reviewers, and trial users can explore every Layer surface — apps, contracts, spend, AI usage, integrations — with realistic data, without connecting any real systems and without any risk to production tenants. A demo organization renders identically to a real one, with two additions:
  • A pink Demo data banner under the cross-product bar on every page, marking the workspace as synthetic.
  • A Demo mode card in Settings with a one-click Reset demo data action.
Demo mode is opt-in per organization and off by default. Real customer tenants are never eligible for the reset endpoint or the seeded data — the server hard-refuses any reset request unless the organization is explicitly flagged as demo.

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When to use demo mode

Use a demo organization when you want to:
  • Walk a prospect through Layer end-to-end without staging real integration credentials.
  • Click through every page (Apps, Contracts, Spend, AI Usage, Renewals, People, Integrations) with realistic data — 60+ SaaS apps, 12 months of spend, 18+ contracts spread across the next 12 months, and 12 months of AI usage across OpenAI, Anthropic, and GitHub Copilot.
  • Reset to a known-good seeded state at the start of every demo or training session.
  • Reproduce dashboard behavior — needs-reauth integrations, active connections, spend trends — that would otherwise require multi-day real-world data accumulation.
For real production usage, leave is_demo unset. The reset action is unavailable on non-demo organizations and the banner does not render.

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What gets seeded

Resetting a demo organization wipes nine tenant-scoped tables in foreign-key order, then re-seeds them. The seed currently produces:
SurfaceVolume
SaaS apps60+ across productivity, dev, security, compliance, finance, HR, marketing, sales, and AI categories
Spend records12 months of monthly spend per app
Contracts18+ contracts spread across the next 12 months of renewals
AI usage12 months of records across OpenAI, Anthropic, and GitHub Copilot
Integration connectionsA mix of active connections and needs_reauth rows so the Integrations page shows realistic states
The exact counts returned by the most recent reset are surfaced inline on the Demo mode card after the action completes.

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Reset demo data

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Open the Demo mode card

In a demo organization, go to Settings. The Demo mode card renders only when is_demo=true on your organization. If you don’t see it, the workspace isn’t a demo tenant and the reset action is not available to you.
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Click Reset demo data

The card asks you to confirm before performing any destructive work.
3

Confirm the wipe and re-seed

Click Yes, wipe and re-seed. Layer wipes every seeded table for your organization, then re-runs the seed. When it finishes, a green status row reports how many apps, devices, people, contracts, spend records, and AI usage records were re-created.
The action takes a few seconds. Refreshing the dashboard after a reset shows the freshly-seeded inventory immediately.
Reset is destructive. It deletes every row in the seeded tables for the organization before re-seeding. Anything you created or edited inside a demo workspace — manual contracts, custom fields, comments — is wiped along with the seeded data.

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Permissions

Only Admin and Owner roles can trigger a reset. Members see the Demo mode card if it renders for the organization, but the action returns 403 Insufficient permissions if invoked by a non-admin.

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Safety guarantees

  • The reset endpoint (POST /api/seed/reset) refuses with 403 Reset is only available for demo organizations. whenever the target organization’s is_demo flag is unset. Real tenants cannot be wiped through this surface, even by an admin.
  • The endpoint runs through the service-role Supabase client only after the demo check passes. Authorization happens before any destructive work.
  • The pink banner is rendered unconditionally on every dashboard page when is_demo=true, so a demo workspace cannot be mistaken for a real one at a glance.

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Turning a workspace into a demo

Demo mode is controlled by the is_demo boolean column on organizations. It defaults to false. To convert a workspace to demo mode, an Axiom operator flips the flag in the database for that tenant — there is no in-app toggle by design, since flipping the flag enables a destructive action. Reach out to support@axiomancer.io if you need a demo organization provisioned.
A public per-visitor demo CTA and ephemeral auto-purging demo organizations are on the roadmap. Until then, demo organizations are provisioned manually and persist until an operator removes them.