Client Company

A client company is an organization party usually owned by a UTA client or clients, commonly called a "loanout" or production company. These client companies are often the entities that are paid directly by the agency, rather than the client directly. Note that if our active client relationship with the client ends, there is no need to de-activate the client company relationship. Presumably the company lives on.

Client companies are connected to client parties via the HAS_CLIENT_COMPANY relationship. It will not be uncommon for the client company organization party to be attached to a client party's ParticipantGroup collection.

Client Company Roles

There are many industry contacts that have roles within the context of clients and client companies. These include, but are not limited to, roles such as personal manager, business managers, attorneys, etc. Auth Data uses the category node :ExternalTeamRole to describe possible non-UTA ("external") professional relationships linked to clients.

The :ClientExternalAssignment node reifies the external team role relationship between a client and the external contact. It links a client party to an external contact and carries the specific external team role that the contact plays on the client's team. The diagram below shows a party, Joe Client, with a client role, and an external assignment to Jane Manager, whoc has a contact role and a personal manager external team role:

Participant Groups

Individual parties (such as loanout companies, managers, lawyers, etc.) that are involved with a client contract are considered participants to a deal. :ParticipantGroup serves as a nexus connecting clients to their related parties.

In the example below, Lizzo (a party of type "person" with :Role of "Client") has a participant group made of two parties:

1. An Personal Manager (a party of with a :Role of "Contact") and
2. Her loanout company (a party of type "organization")