Once you have the tenant boundary, the next question is what lives inside it. This is how I modeled...
Article models multi-tenant teams by separating User (global identity) from TeamMember (org-scoped relationship with lifecycle: pending/active/suspended/removed). For SaaS builders, this pattern solves audit compliance, enables multiple-org membership per user, and prevents conflating global identity with org-level roles.
Once you have the tenant boundary, the next question is what lives inside it. This is how I modeled teams with roles, invitations, and lifecycle states that match real organizational behavior.
This is Part 2 of the series Building Multi-Tenant Systems That Match the Real World.
Part 1: Designing Multi-Tenant Backends With Both Ownership and Team Access
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The Gap Between "List of Users" and a Real Team
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