For agencies, studios & consultancies

Run client work your clients can see

Design studios, dev shops, marketing agencies, consultancies — your product is a project delivered to another company. Coordinator runs the whole engagement, and lets the client watch it move without ever seeing your margins.

Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.

The Friday status email

Every week, someone rewrites the project plan into an email because the client can't see the tracker.

The margin mystery

Revenue lives in the invoicing tool, hours in the tracker, contractor bills in the books. Which projects make money? A shrug.

The approval that vanished

'Approved, go ahead' is somewhere in an inbox. When scope is questioned later, so is the approval.

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Estimate EST-0017
Kitchen renovation · valid until Sep 30
$12,400
Accept by typing your name
Priya SharmaAccept
✓ AcceptedOne click turns it into the invoice.
Winning the work

From inquiry to signed engagement, on rails

A lead fills your intake form — budget, scope, timelines, files. That single submission creates the contact, files a structured record of their answers, and can auto-apply your 'hot lead' category based on what they said.

  • Multi-page intake with conditional questions and phone-friendly file upload
  • The quote goes out as a hosted page; the client accepts by typing their name — stored as a signature
  • One click converts the accepted estimate to the kickoff invoice
  • Duplicate handling fills blanks on contacts you already know — never overwrites
Projects · Website redesign
Backlog2
Q3 campaign assets
AL
Onboarding checklist refresh
JM
In progress2
Client portal rollout
EVDue Fri
Spring catalog shoot
RK
In review1
Homepage design
EVClient sign-off
Done1
Wireframes & sitemap
AL
Delivery

The engagement is a template you've already perfected

Discovery, concepts, build, launch — save your delivery playbook as a template and every new engagement starts fully formed: stages gated in order, tasks owned, deliverables required before anything can close.

  • Stages unlock as earlier ones finish; newly unlocked tasks pick up start dates automatically
  • Deliverables are real artifacts — a record, a document, a form submission — not a checkbox
  • Drop files and screenshots onto the work; they become named, findable records
  • Board, list and pipeline views over the same tree, with saved filters per person
The client's side

They watch it move. They never see the machinery.

Share the engagement over the network and it appears in the client's own workspace — same stages, same progress, one shared thread. Your subtasks, hours, contractor costs and internal notes stay structurally invisible to them.

  • Sign-off is one click on their side — recorded, timestamped, and it closes the work
  • 'Waiting on client' hands the ball over: they see 'In your court' on their home page
  • Show them a named PM, a team label, or just your studio — your staffing is your business
  • Clients without a Coordinator account still get hosted documents and a portal
Your workspace — Meridian Design Studio
Website redesign — Harbor & Finch
Shared · you write
Wireframes & sitemapDone
Homepage designIn review
Template buildIn progress
Private to your side
Internal cost · 46h logged · margin 38%$5,340
Subtasks, assignees and estimates stay on your side of the boundary.
Their workspace — Harbor & Finch Ltd
Website redesign — Meridian
Shared · mirrored
Wireframes & sitemapDone
Homepage designIn review
Template buildIn progress
Shared thread
EV
Homepage concepts are up — approve when ready and we'll start the build.
✓ Approved by Harbor & Finch
Reports · Profit & loss
Net income · this quarter
$23,780
↑ 14% vs last quarter
Design services$41,200
Retainers$18,400
Product sales$6,150
Invoices, bills, bank feeds and budgets roll up into statements automatically.
The money

Billing that clients approved before it existed

Tie billing to their sign-off: the invoice can't be drafted until the client approves the work. When it goes out, it lands in their books as a bill — no retyping, no 'we never got it'.

  • Retainers spin up each month's project and sweep unbilled hours onto the invoice automatically
  • Every engagement reports revenue vs. hours vs. contractor bills vs. loaded payroll — live margin
  • The waiting analysis: '40 days on this project — 22 waiting on the client' (and now you can prove it)
  • Payment lands on your own Stripe, PayPal or Wise
What you'd use

The pieces, mapped to your business

Projects

Engagement templates, stages, client sign-off, deliverables

Money

Estimates signed online, retainers, job costing, margin per client

The network

Live mirrored projects, billing approvals, invoice→bill

Chat

Client threads filed on the engagement; internal threads stay internal

Records & forms

Intake forms, briefs, assets and approvals as structured records

Scheduling

Kickoff and review calls booked on shared availability

Fair questions

Asked by businesses like yours

Does my client have to use Coordinator?

No. Without an account they get hosted estimates, invoices with online payment, a portal and tokened approval links. If they do join (it's free for them too), they get the live mirrored project — which is usually what makes them join.

Can they see our hours or costs?

Structurally, no. Estimates, time entries, costs, subtasks and internal fields never sync across the boundary — it's not a permission you could misconfigure; the data simply doesn't cross.

We run retainers — how does that work?

A recurring profile generates each month's invoice, optionally spins up that month's project from your template, and sweeps the client's unbilled billable time onto the invoice — atomically, on schedule.

100% free — every feature, every seat

Run your next engagement here

Set up your delivery template once, invite the team free, and let the first client watch their project move.

Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.