Multi-org for people — your contacts can belong to multiple companies
Multi-org for people
People in Simple Product can now belong to multiple organizations. Contractors with several clients, advisors on multiple boards, employees with side gigs, customers who've changed companies — all model correctly now without forcing you to pick one and lose the rest.
What's new
The Organizations section on a person's page is now a list, not a single picker:
[+]next to the section header opens a search popover to add another org (or create one inline if it doesn't exist yet)- Each row clicks through to that org's page
- The
[⋮]menu per row offers "Remove" — surgically removes that one affiliation, leaves the rest
The same shape exists on the org page. Linked people show up there with their own [⋮] menu and a "Remove from this org" option. So whether you're managing affiliations from a person's perspective or from an org's, the experience is symmetric — the relationship is genuinely many-to-many in both directions.
Why this matters
Most CRM-style tools force a 1:1 person→company mental model: each contact has one company. That's a reasonable simplification for many cases, but it breaks the moment you encounter:
- A contractor who consults for three of your customer companies
- An advisor who sits on the board of multiple portfolio companies
- A buyer who switched jobs since you first met them — do you lose their old affiliation?
- A founder who's involved in two startups simultaneously
Forcing any of these into a single-org model means losing data the moment you record reality. Multi-org lets you track all of it without special workarounds.
It also fixes a real bug we'd been carrying: linking a person to a second org from the org's page used to silently replace their existing primary affiliation. So adding "Alice" to Beta Inc's people list when she was already at Acme would invisibly demote Acme. Now it adds Beta as an additional affiliation; Alice's existing relationships are preserved.
Upgrade
Nothing required on your end. The change is purely additive — existing people with one org continue to display correctly, just in the new list format. The first time you add a second org to someone, you'll see the list grow.
If you'd like to bulk-link people to multiple orgs via the SDK or REST API, that surface comes next — for now, multi-org management is UI-only.