# Assign business

`businesses.assign`

Assign this business to a current workspace teammate by email, or pass null to clear ownership. This uses the portal's assignment events and notifications; it does not grant access. Reuse client_request_id only for an identical retry.

[Businesses guide](https://docs.levr.ai/mcp/resources/businesses.md)

Availability depends on live discovery and your access to the record. Do not infer MCP calls from REST paths.

Operation: write. Required OAuth scopes: mcp.

## Input schema

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "business_id": {
      "description": "Copy id (biz_) from businesses.list.",
      "maxLength": 255,
      "minLength": 1,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "client_request_id": {
      "maxLength": 255,
      "minLength": 1,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "owner_email": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "format": "email",
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Copy an eligible teammate email from provider_team.get; null clears ownership."
    },
    "provider_slug": {
      "description": "Copy provider_slug from providers.list; named slugs are valid.",
      "maxLength": 255,
      "minLength": 1,
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "provider_slug",
    "business_id",
    "owner_email",
    "client_request_id"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}
```

## Output schema

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "not": {
        "required": [
          "error"
        ]
      },
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": true
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "data"
      ]
    },
    {
      "not": {
        "required": [
          "data"
        ]
      },
      "properties": {
        "ok": {
          "const": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "error"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "owner": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "properties": {
                "email": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "email",
                "name"
              ],
              "type": "object"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        },
        "record_id": {
          "description": "Stable public identifier for the referenced resource.",
          "maxLength": 255,
          "minLength": 1,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "revision": {
          "minimum": 0,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "updated_at": {
          "format": "date-time",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "record_id",
        "owner",
        "revision",
        "updated_at"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "error": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "code": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "details": {
          "additionalProperties": true,
          "description": "Optional bounded, agent-safe correction or recovery facts.",
          "type": "object"
        },
        "message": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "retryable": {
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "code",
        "message",
        "retryable"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "meta": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "request_id": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "request_id"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "ok": {
      "description": "Whether the tool completed successfully.",
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "ok",
    "meta"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}
```

Check the result, then read the affected record to confirm your change.