A: Good morning!

Great questions! I'll take them one at a time.

1)
What I recommend is having 1 Alvanda account for *yourselves* (that is private, so just for your employees), and then 1 "Demo" account / Consultant OR Client.

As such, if you have 3 Clients in parallel, you can present 3 different Org Charts to them, without having to keep changing them.

Now, I'm not sure if you expect those clients to potentially start using Alvanda (the Org Chart / Job Descriptions / Procedures / Strategic Roadmaps) you laid out for them.

IF YES, then you can even start a new Trial Account for each client. Where you build everything out for them, and then once you're service is done, you Invite them to the Account, and make THEM Admin + Chairman. So then they basically become the co-owners of the account.

Then, if you want to keep rendering service for them, you can keep your user in their company account, and ongoingly help them. If not, then you can simply ask them to Deactivate you.

In this niche case, I still recommend having 1-2 Demo accounts, which should help you during the SALES stage, to basically show them "this is what I'm going to build out for you." Then, once the deal is closed, you create the Trial Accounts for each client (OR ask them to create an account, and invite you).

2)
IF you own multiple companies that basically do the same thing, then maybe yes, you can have 1 Alvanda account for all of them. Because the Org Chart will be shared, the Procedures will all be the same, etc.

The only 2 caveats here are:

a) How much view you're OK with everyone having?

Remember the Company pages are meant to be a place of complete transparency. So let's say you have 5 people on average per location. 18 x 5 = 90. So ALL of those 90 people will see everyone else in the company. They'll see all of the CEOs from each location, all of the staff, etc. (If this is something you WANT, then great! If not, then think about it more)

b) Are each location's Mission/Vision the same?

If one location's Vision is to reach $1M this year, and another's is to reach $500K, plus a few other differences in the HOW they plan to do that locally (you said they have individual branding, so not sure), then again that might be a consideration. (Similarly as with point 2a), if you want to align every location to the same ONE big Mission/Vision, then great! If not, then you might want a bit of separation)

IF the companies are different (eg. Consultancy, eComm, Recruitment, etc.) then I highly recommend different companies, because the almost everything about one company will be different. Visions, Missions, Org Charts, Procedures, Strategic Initiatives, etc. all vary a lot between different types of Services businesses and an eComm business.

Hope this helps, and have a productive week ahead!

(Btw, sorry it took a couple days to reply, I was off during this weekend :)