Solutions
Built for the way service companies work
Manager is for companies whose work is projects for clients: people's time is the product, and margin depends on delivering on time.
By role
Each person sees what their role needs, and only what their role allows.
Owners and executives
See the whole company without asking anyone for an update.
- A morning brief of what changed, what is at risk and what needs a decision
- Project health by unit, with what moved since last week
- Goals and key results linked to the projects that deliver them, updated from live data where you link them
- Your own KPIs and scorecards for the company, teams and projects, never about one person
- P&L and margin by project, product, unit and company, with a cash-flow and pipeline forecast
- Client health by account from a fixed formula, and a company scorecard that never ranks individuals
Project managers
Spend the week running the project, not reporting on it.
- Plans from templates, a timeline with dependencies, and a board
- RAID log, change requests and baselines in one place
- Your project's own task workflow, intake forms and a project wiki
- Blockers from the team's check-ins, as they happen
- Status reports drafted from the project's own data, and meeting notes turned into tasks you accept
- A health score you can explain to a client, line by line
Team members
Less admin, and a fair share of the work.
- A daily check-in that takes under a minute, on a phone or offline
- My day: everything waiting for you, in order
- Timesheets on a weekly grid, with a timer and copy last week
- A private coach, and help asking for support without blame
- Thank colleagues in your own words; praise is never counted or ranked
- Ctrl+K to find what you need, and pages that update as work changes
- See every record about you and who can see it
Finance
Numbers that reconcile to the line, every time.
- Approved time becomes cost at the rate valid on the day it was worked
- Invoices from milestones, time or fixed amounts, with PDF and email
- Issued invoices and approved timesheets are never edited; corrections reverse
- Accounting periods that close, with late items booked in the next open period
- Month-end revenue recognition and a work-in-progress report
- Approval chains for timesheets, leave and expenses, and receipts read by AI into a claim the person checks
- Budgets, forecast at completion, purchase orders and payroll export
HR and people leads
Look after people with facts, not surveillance.
- Directory, reporting lines, an org chart, and organisation levels named your way
- Onboarding and leaver checklists, and people documents kept private, with expiry reminders
- 1:1 templates with a shared agenda, and private notes the AI never reads
- Capacity, leave balances and holidays in one picture
- Fair workload: overload spotted early and a rebalancing drafted for the lead
- Recognition notes with evidence; humans decide any reward
- Visibility rules with a notice period before anything widens
IT and administrators
Secure by default, and quick to roll out.
- SAML single sign-on designed for Okta, Entra ID and Google Workspace, and SCIM provisioning
- Multi-factor authentication, required for owners, admins and finance
- Roles built from an action catalogue, with a preview before a role is saved
- An audit log, access reviews and a segregation-of-duties report
- AI features on or off per role, with monthly credit allowances and a choice on finance data
- Custom agents within limits: tools about work only, suggest or propose, a credit cap per run
- A public API with scoped tokens, signed webhooks, and MCP for AI assistants once you turn it on
- Your logo and an accent colour that passes a contrast check
By company type
Manager suits companies of about 10 to 500 people, and it has been scale-tested on synthetic data for much larger ones.
Creative and digital agencies
Many client projects at once, fixed fees and retainers, and a small team stretched across them. Manager shows which project is slipping and who is overloaded before the client notices, and turns approved time into invoices.
Consultancies and professional services
Time and materials, rate cards by client, and utilisation that matters. Manager keeps rates, approvals and margin straight, and gives partners a brief instead of a spreadsheet.
Software houses and IT services
Sprints, releases and support work side by side. Manager imports from spreadsheets, keeps tasks in step with Jira, GitHub Issues or Linear through their own webhooks, and tracks service requests against their targets. Engineering metrics by team, never by person, follow once the GitHub connector is switched on.
Engineering, architecture and construction practices
Long projects with milestones, change requests and baselines. Manager records the effect of every change on dates and cost, and keeps incidents, shift rotas and checklists alongside the plan.
Managed service providers
Recurring work, retainers and response targets. Manager raises an alert when a target is missed, runs recurring tasks and invoices, and shows client health in one place.
Not sure it fits?
Tell us how your company works and we will tell you honestly whether Manager is a good fit.