People

The People directory holds everyone your organization works with — gathered from connected sources or added by hand.

The People directory

People vs. Members

	Person	Member
What it is	A directory entry	A seat in the workspace
Can sign in?	No	Yes
Costs a seat?	No	Yes
Lives in	Alignment → People	Administration → Members

A Person is anyone working at or for the company — employees, contractors, advisors, board members. It’s a record, not an account. Customers and prospects belong in Memory as topics, not here.

A Member holds a seat and can sign in. Most People aren’t Members.

Linked and shadow rows

A Person is linked when they have an Alma account, and a shadow when they don’t. Promoting shadow to linked happens automatically on sign-in; groups, reporting lines, and rates all carry over.

Badge	Means
On Alma	Linked to a real profile
Invited	An unclaimed invite exists for their email
Not invited	No invite has been sent

Adding people

New person — add one at a time.
Import — paste a list (Alex Kim <alex@acme.com>) or upload a CSV/TSV.
Research campaigns propose people from your sources, arriving as suggested.

Finding people

Filter by group, manager, or status, and search by name. Bulk-select rows to add or remove a group across multiple people.

A person’s detail page

Groups — which they belong to
Connections — required personal accounts and their status
Reporting — who they report to
Compensation — their loaded hourly rate

You can only remove an individual connection requirement here. One inherited from a group must be changed on the group.

Loaded rates

Loaded rates price ROI calculations. Rates cascade, most specific first:

The person’s rate
Their group’s rate
The workspace default
A built-in $90/hr

Set the workspace default, override for groups whose cost differs materially, and set individuals only where it matters.

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