Organisations

What it is

An organisation in Aden is a music-industry entity — a record label, distributor, PRO (performing rights organisation), recording studio, management company, publisher, or similar entity. Organisations exist independently in the platform and are not team workspaces: they don't have their own tracks or albums. Instead, they connect to artist teams to manage those relationships.

Think of an organisation as the other side of the music industry relationship. An artist team says "we are distributed by DistroKid"; DistroKid's Aden organisation sees that team in its roster and can manage submissions, contracts, and communications from there.

Aden ships pre-seeded with roughly 300 well-known industry entities. Any team can also create new ones, which enter a pending state until approved by an Aden admin.

How accounts, teams & organisations fit together

Aden is built on one simple separation, so your account is yours and comes with you:

• You have one personal account. You sign in once and keep the same account whether you're working solo, in a band, or at a label.
• Teams are the workspace. Your tracks, releases and content live in a team, and you join a team as a member — you can belong to several at once (your own project, a band, a team a label set up for you) and switch between them.
• Organisations connect to your teams, not to you directly. A label, distributor or agency reaches your work by being linked to one of your teams — never by owning your account. What they can see is scoped to that link, so your other teams stay private to them.
• When a relationship ends, only that link goes. Terminating a team ↔ organisation link removes the org's access to that team. Your account, your other teams, and everything not covered by the link stay exactly as they were and stay with you.

In short: bring your account, link the teams you want an organisation to manage, and keep everything else to yourself — the way personal and work accounts stay cleanly separated even though it's a single login.

Artist coaches are one of these entity types. A coach (or coaching arm of an agency) links the artists they develop and works with them through the same surfaces every org uses — goals, skills/playbooks, guides, and submission feedback — but with a guidance-oriented access bundle: none of the financial, legal, or contractual access a label or manager would have. It's the same organisation plumbing, tuned for guidance.

Using it

Link your team to an organisation. From your team workspace, go to your team's organisations section and search for the label, distributor, or PRO you work with. Select it and it appears in your list. You can also create a new organisation if yours isn't in the directory yet — it will be marked as pending until an Aden admin approves it.

Submit a track or album. Once your team is linked to an organisation, you can submit tracks or albums to it for consideration. You set submission metadata (status, priority, notes) and the organisation team can then accept, reject, or request changes.

Manage your organisation (org admins only). If you are the owner or admin of an organisation on Aden, log in and navigate to your org. From there you can:

1. Invite teams — search for an existing Aden team and invite them, or send an email invite to someone who then picks one of their own teams.
2. Review submissions — see all tracks and albums submitted to your org, assign them to members, and send decisions back to the team.
3. Manage members — control who inside your organisation has access and what role they hold (owner, admin, or member).
4. Issue invoices and contracts — generate invoices and attach contract documents directly inside Aden.
5. Configure entity types — declare what kind of entity your organisation is (label, distributor, PRO, studio, etc.) so teams searching for partners find you correctly.