Reference · FAQ

Questions before you sign on.

Plain-language answers to how Undertone works for solo scouts and for teams — including how seats are funded, how workspaces are scoped, and how shared verdicts behave once more than one person is involved. For anything not covered here, email hello@undertone.ai.

Workspaces

Personal and team

How is a team workspace different from my personal workspace?

Your personal workspace is yours alone — your taste profile, your pipeline, your verdicts. A team workspace is a shared lane where multiple Members search against a team taste profile and review findings together. The two never mix unless you explicitly promote a discovery from personal into the team.

If I'm on a team, do I lose my personal workspace?

No. Personal workspaces are permanent and private. Your verdicts, notes, and taste profile are never visible to any team you're on. If you switch organizations, your personal workspace travels with you — only your team seats change.

Can I be on multiple teams at once?

Yes. A single Undertone account can hold any number of team seats across different organizations simultaneously. The workspace switcher in the top bar is how you move between them.

Whose taste profile feeds a search?

The workspace you launch from. A search in your personal workspace uses your personal taste profile. A search in a team workspace uses the team's taste profile — built from the team's onboarding and the team's collective verdicts, not any individual Member's history.

Pipeline

Inbox, Active, and verdicts

What's the difference between Inbox and Active in a team pipeline?

Inbox is where new candidates land when any Member launches a team search. Active is the team's working list — artists the team is actually pursuing. Inbox keeps raw output from flooding the Active view; Members triage Inbox items and promote the keepers into Active.

Who can promote artists from Inbox into Active?

Any Member can promote — pitching up is democratic. But only the Owner can move something out of Active (to Dismissed) or restore something from Dismissed. The senior call is final, the junior pitch is open.

What stops two teammates from approving the same artist at the same time?

When you open an artist for review, the row soft-locks to you for five minutes. Teammates see who's currently reviewing it. If two Members genuinely disagree, both verdicts are stored as an audit trail and the Owner decides.

How do shared searches and search windows work?

Team dashboard searches have no waiting window, but the workspace handles one discovery search at a time so teammates do not collide. Org-funded Standard and Development Specialist seats use team-only quotas. Paid subscriber seats use that person's own monthly subscription allowance, plus any searches transferred by the Owner.

Seats

Owners, Members, and Observers

Who buys a team seat — me or my organization?

Either model is supported. A paid subscriber can be invited without extra org billing and brings their own plan allowance. Or the organization can fund a team-only Standard seat ($150/mo, 3 searches) or Development Specialist seat ($400/mo, 6 searches) for a named Member who does not need a personal workspace.

Are there free seats?

Yes. Every team workspace includes Observer seats — non-billed, read and comment only — for collaborators (managers, lawyers, label heads, sync supervisors) who need to see the pipeline without consuming search capacity. Observers can read and comment. They can't launch searches, set verdicts, or export.

Who can invite an Observer?

Only the team Owner. Observers are invited by email; the Owner accepts responsibility for their conduct under the Terms of Service.

What happens to a Member's seat when they leave the team?

The seat returns to the Organization's pool — the Org can refill it with a new Member. The departing Member loses access to that team workspace immediately. Their personal subscription, personal workspace, and verdict history are untouched.

Can the Owner give me extra searches from their own quota?

Yes. The Owner can transfer up to 50% of their monthly allowance to other Members of the same team, capped at 5 searches total for a Roster or Pipeline owner. Transferred searches are workspace-locked, expire at month-end, and come out of the Owner's monthly pool.

Billing

Who pays for what

If my organization pays for my seat and stops paying, do I lose access immediately?

No. You get a 14-day grace period during which you can add your own payment method or arrange alternative funding with the Org. The seat doesn't disappear silently. After the grace period, the seat is suspended until billing resumes.

If I'm consulting for two organizations, who pays for what?

If an organization funds your access, it pays for its own Standard or Developer team seat independently. If you are already a paid subscriber, an organization can invite you as a subscriber-backed seat without adding org billing. Your personal workspace remains yours.

Can a freelance A&R use team-workspace features without an organization?

Yes, starting at Roster. Roster and private Pipeline include team dashboard ownership. Scout and Developer can join an existing team by invitation, but they cannot create or own the team dashboard.

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