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 ### Seeding the database
 
-We have a helper script that will seed the database with requests, workspaces and
-projects for all of the test users:
+We have a helper script that will seed the database with requests, portfolios and
+applications for all of the test users:
 
 `pipenv run python script/seed_sample.py`