Float

“Because it worked great in our smaller group, other people began asking: Can we get in on that?”

“Float met my needs perfectly at my last agency. So when I came over to Tilt and then we shut down, it was exactly what we needed.”

“There was no way for us to do this company with this amount of clients, with this amount of sort of big brands, and deliver all this work without the system. There are so many projects happening at the same time that for a small agency like us, there is no way to handle that amount of little projects without having a visual planning tool.”

“I would say we are at least 20%-30% more efficient because people spend less time waiting around, not knowing what to do.”

“I think our delivery has definitely improved. Ninety percent of our work is delivered on time because people know when they're supposed to do it.”

“We schedule high-level blocks of time based on estimates from our senior creatives and account managers for doing the work. Creatives try to follow the scheduled estimates as best they can. If they’re done earlier, they’ll let us know, and we might make some extra money in the process. If they take a little longer, our philosophy is that it will probably balance itself out with the times they were done earlier. If someone consistently needs more time than they've been allocated, we examine if our estimates are too low or if the person needs to find a way to speed up.”

“I think it's common for most agencies to have employees track their time. I don't believe in that. I think it creates a wrong environment for creative agency. I don't want the creatives to worry about their hours or their time tracking. I just want them to deliver.”

“There have been about 30 project managers who have started and left in the four years that we’ve used Float. Nobody has ever had any issues understanding the software. Everyone just sort of plugs and plays. They understand what it is because it's just so intuitive. And I think that's very impressive but also very underrated.”

“There’s just a clean overview of all the people in a big list. And you just drag and drop their time into their schedule.”

“When I started Truus, we did Float from the jump. We didn't do any planning when we were just a few freelancers. But then, when we started being like a real company that needed a planning tool, it was just Float. I went back to it because it was my favorite and we’ve been using it ever since.”

“I've been through the wringer with so many different project scheduling and team management apps, and now the dust is settling a bit, which is refreshing!”

“Float makes me feel a lot more confident in not being as involved in the projects as my role evolves. I feel more reassured that what needs to happen is clear enough for people instead of thinking they’d be digging through lots of different messages to try and figure out what they need to do on any given day.”

““The team has got a lot more of a clear understanding of what's going on, where, and when. We wouldn't have really had that if we were still using Asana for our schedule management stuff.””

““If a timer is coming into Float, then actually, we don't need Asana because no one was really using it to look at what they were doing that day.””

““We really liked the way Float looked and worked, but working alongside Asana was just a duplication of effort because they wouldn't speak to one another properly. If I scheduled someone for that project on Tuesday, it wouldn't change in Asana to show this person was working on Tuesday. I had to do that twice. So we had to ask: what do we prefer? What's actually making more sense for how we run things and how we schedule stuff?””

““We realized over time that we looked into Float to see what we had to do and went into Asana to just press start tracking every hour.””

“It was really difficult for us to get a big picture, look at how busy we were, who was being scheduled on what, especially if multiple tasks were going on in one day. The diary view in Asana couldn’t give us a good idea of what was happening.”

““Using Float was the perfect way of integrating structure into our team at the time,” said Bryan.”

““Float helped us set boundaries for the work we continued to take on and identify where we needed to hire resources,” said Bryan.”

““We needed something that could manage our workflows and, more importantly, our expectations of each other, ” said Bryan.”

“Being able to visualize our workload in a timeline, in all of Float’s color-coded glory, gave us much-needed structure during a period of intense growth. It helped us set boundaries for the work we continued to take on, to identify where we needed to hire resources, and also gave us a new perspective on how we valued our time.”

“Float’s essentially an additional teammate. We rely heavily on Float to help keep things on track in an easily digestible and understandable way.”

“Float helps us in our role because we are like a link connecting people, and when we do it well, our team members are happy and productive.”

“Once a week, we have a virtual capacity planning meeting with account managers and creative directors, in which we go through projects in Float to see team workloads and availability. Float enables us to answer important questions like: Is this project properly planned? How much time can we allocate to tentative projects without blocking confirmed projects? Can we predict how much work is coming in?”

“The API was necessary for us to build on Float. We are about 50 people, so it’s really important that we don’t have to enter the data because otherwise, we would have to do it in five different systems. We do it once, and then it syncs with all our services.”