Utilisation is the business. So show it.
Who is over-committed across every client at once, what a project has cost against the fee, and whether the client actually approved the thing before it shipped. Choose Agency & Consulting at setup and the hours, the load and the sign-off are already wired.
Default project tabs
The standard set — client work with a fee, a schedule and named people is what it was built for.
Projects created on day one
- Client Delivery
- New Business
- Studio
What changes, in the hours it actually changes.
Three moments from an ordinary week. Every one of them is a thing the product does, not a thing it could be configured to do one day.
09:30 — resourcing, before the week sets
Workload puts capacity against assigned work per person, across every account rather than one project at a time. The designer who is committed to three clients at once shows up on Monday morning instead of on Thursday afternoon.
13:00 — the hour is priced where it happened
A timer runs from the task, or the entry lands afterwards. Rates resolve per user, per client or per agency, and the Billing tab turns the week's unbilled hours into an invoice with every line exportable as CSV.
16:45 — the client signs off on the work, not on an email
Approvals routes the deliverable to the named approver and keeps the record of who approved what and when, attached to the task the work lives on. When the scope question comes back in six weeks, the answer is a row rather than a search.
The three that do the heavy lifting.
Choose this industry during setup and its tools are queued for you. Review the list, drop anything you don't want, and the workspace initialises with the rest already working — or install any one of them on its own, later, from the marketplace.
Time Tracking & Billing
A timer inside the task and manual entries after the fact, priced by a rate that resolves per user, per client or per agency — then turned into an invoice.
- Task timers and manual entries
- Rates per user, per client or per agency
- A Billing tab that produces invoices
- CSV export of every line item
Workload
Capacity against assigned work, per person, across every account at once — so an over-committed team member is visible before the deadline is.
- Capacity versus assigned work per person
- Across every client, not one project at a time
- Spot who is overloaded and who is free
- Rebalance before anything burns
Approvals
Sign-off requested on the deliverable itself and routed to the right approver, with a clear record of who approved what and when.
- Request sign-off from the task
- Routed to a named approver
- Who approved what, and when
- The trail sits beside the work, not in email
How Agency & Consulting actually runs.
Each of these is a project in Noots — its own board, tab strip, meetings, calendar and members. They are not pre-built modules and we will not pretend they are: what the industry gives you is the right defaults around them.
These sit on top of the whole product.
- Client calls become owned action items on the right board, with scope changes logged where the fee lives
- The built-in CRM keeps new business, accounts and opportunities next to the delivery board
- Each project's Budget tab tracks spend against the fee; its Capacity tab tracks the load on that one job
- Autopilot plans a delivery, assigns from real people and reassigns when someone is over capacity
- Chat channels per project and per team, with calls that survive navigating away
The honest edges.
- Two rates price the same hour, deliberately: the project Budget's blended rate answers “what did this cost us” and the billing rate answers “what do we invoice”. Both are shown; neither is derived from the other.
- Noots produces and exports invoices. Sending, chasing and reconciling them stays in your accounting system.
- There is no Figma integration.
- Approvals record a named sign-off against a task. It is not a frame-accurate proofing tool with annotations over artwork or video.
Built for the way your trade actually runs.
The ones buyers ask first.
Can we see utilisation across every client at once?
Why are there two different rates on the same hour?
How does client sign-off work?
Does new business live in the same place as delivery?
Open a workspace that already knows Agency & Consulting.
Answer what your organisation does, review what gets installed, and start with the boards, meetings, chat and calendar already in the right shape.
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