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# People

Monolith uses **Clients** and **Contacts** to help your team keep track of the people and organizations connected to your work.

Although both store information about people or organizations, they serve different purposes within Monolith.

### Clients

Clients generally represent the person or organization requesting work from your team.

A client may be associated with a case directly or originate from a request submitted through Relay. Client records help preserve information about who requested the work and provide a consistent record that can be associated with multiple cases over time.

Use **Clients** to:

* Maintain information about requestors or customer organizations
* Associate a client with one or more cases
* Review cases connected to a client
* Maintain contact and organization details for repeat requestors

See **Clients** for more information.

### Contacts

Contacts represent other people associated with your forensic work.

A contact can be connected to a **case, evidence item, acquisition, or other relevant case context**, allowing your team to preserve the relationship between a person and the work being performed.

Contacts may include:

* Suspects
* Victims
* Witnesses
* Custodians
* Attorneys
* Opposing counsel
* Colleagues
* Investigators
* Examiners
* Other individuals relevant to the case

Use Contacts whenever preserving information about a person and their relationship to the case may be useful later.

See **Contacts** for more information.