Well, folks, we have an answer! Directly from support: "I have confirmed directly with our Product team that what you’re experiencing is actually expected behavior with the new license model. Contributors (similar to the old Requestor role) can only view companies they’re assigned to, based on their...

I'll submit a ticket today. I think it's likely a bug, but I'll update the post when I hear back.

Agreed. This is really throwing a wrench in our license management. If we have to build a workaround for typeahead fields, it would require a lot of extra time to recreate a feature that already exists. 

Yes, the only option selected in that section is disabling the AI assistant

My company uses a typeahead field on most of our templates to indicate which client a project is for. The typeahead references our list of Companies. With the Light license, our main users were able to see all companies in this field. I was hoping to move some of them to the Contributor license and ...