---
title: "RoleAroundADecision"
description: "one register of the roles people and organisations play around a decision and a market; a role never makes a buyer"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/rolearoundadecision
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# RoleAroundADecision

one register of the roles people and organisations play around a decision and a market; a role never makes a buyer

[figure: RoleAroundADecision is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `side` | `one of the decision \| the market \| influence \| the rules` | yes |  |
| `does` | `text` | yes |  |
| `hands_on` | `text` | yes |  |
| `held_as` | [KindOfConnection](/concepts/kindofconnection) | yes |  |
| `can_be_a_lead` | `one of no \| sometimes \| only when a buyer profile names the role` | yes |  |
| `recognised_by` | [Predicate](/concepts/predicate) | no | the title words and cues that suggest a person holds the role |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns RoleAroundADecision directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.