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# People

Manage the clients and contacts connected to your organization, requests, cases, evidence, and forensic work.

Monolith uses [**Clients**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/clients.md) and [**Contacts**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/contacts.md) 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](/monolith/using-monolith/case-management/cases.md) directly or originate from a request submitted through [Relay](/monolith/relay-request-portal/relay-overview.md). 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**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/clients.md) for more information.

### Contacts

Contacts represent other people associated with your forensic work.

A contact can be connected to a **case,** [**evidence item**](/monolith/using-monolith/evidence-management/evidence-items.md)**, 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**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/contacts.md) for more information.

### Related Documentation

* [**Clients**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/clients.md)
* [**Contacts**](/monolith/using-monolith/people/contacts.md)
* [**Cases**](/monolith/using-monolith/case-management/cases.md)
* [**Evidence Items**](/monolith/using-monolith/evidence-management/evidence-items.md)
* [**Relay Overview**](/monolith/relay-request-portal/relay-overview.md)