Multiple clients and studio setups: scaling beyond solo freelance

The simplest case: you, one trading identity, many clients. The User model holds your identity, tax regime, IBAN, and Stripe Connect account. Each Client row has a user foreign key — clients are owned by exactly one freelancer. You can have 5 clients or 500; the only ceiling on the Free plan is 2 proposals per month, on Pro it's 5 per month, on Unlimited there's no cap (PLAN_QUOTAS = {'free': 2, 'pro': 5, 'unlimited': None}).

Trading under multiple brands doesn't fit the one-account model. If you sometimes invoice as "Alex Photography" (your personal name) and sometimes as "Frame Studio" (your brand), you have one tax registration and one IBAN — but two logos and two preferred brand voices. Today the recommended approach is two Clozo accounts (one freelancer, one studio email), each with its own profile. We're tracking demand for "brand switcher within one account" — file via support if it'd matter to you.

Studios with multiple freelancers (two designers under one studio brand, sharing a client list) similarly don't fit cleanly today. The team-account model is on the roadmap but not yet shipped. Workaround: pick one designated freelancer to hold the Clozo account and have the others contribute via email/messaging; or one Clozo account per freelancer plus an external CRM to dedupe.

What does work well today: one freelancer, many clients, many proposals per client over time, multiple proposals concurrently in different statuses. Clozo's dashboard handles thousands of clients and proposals without performance degradation; the dashboard list paginates 100 at a time, and per-client filter views reduce noise.