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# Platform organization

Learn the hierarchy that settings, permissions and data follow, from tenant and company down to application, entity and loan account.

Everything in Commercial Lending follows one hierarchy. Settings, permissions and data all follow it.

| Level            | What it is                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Where it is documented                                                |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Tenant**       | Your organization's instance of the platform. Tenant-wide settings, platform roles, branding, and integrations live here.                                                                                       | [Administration overview](broken://pages/R7BzIKEGwDgA9C2crw0G)        |
| **Company**      | <p>A lending business inside your tenant, with its own users, teams, products, and spread and covenant configurations.</p><p>The UI calls a company an <em>account</em>; the two words mean the same thing.</p> | [Company hub](broken://pages/1f520qLQZX4riq4OaJV6)                    |
| **Loan product** | <p>A reusable configuration that every application created from it inherits.</p><p>A product must be both <strong>Active</strong> and <strong>Published</strong> before new applications can use it.</p>        | [Product configuration overview](broken://pages/8XjuxtKEaCOf1eAeUy41) |
| **Application**  | One financing request, also called a *deal*.                                                                                                                                                                    | [Loan stages](/commercial-lending/getting-started/loan-stages.md)     |
| **Entity**       | Each party on an application: a business borrower, an individual guarantor, or a property. Documents, financials, background reports, and covenants attach to entities, not to the application as a whole.      | [Entity page](broken://pages/8e85q76D0mvxqBTjiLnp)                    |
| **Loan account** | The booked loan after an application reaches **Closed**. Covenants and reviews are tracked against loan accounts.                                                                                               | [Loan accounts](broken://pages/9TlAoueET4bz7Ghm30HL)                  |

## Related

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Platform overview</strong></td><td></td><td><a href="/commercial-lending/platform-overview.md">Platform Reference</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Applications and deals</strong></td><td></td><td><a href="/commercial-lending/getting-started/concepts/applications-and-deals.md">Applications and deals</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Products and product categories</strong></td><td></td><td><a href="/commercial-lending/getting-started/concepts/products-and-product-categories.md">Products and product categories</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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