Float

“Float’s profitability tracking has been a game-changer. We’ve been able to quickly assess project profitability right from the planning stage, which has helped us make faster, more informed decisions.”

“Float enables us to answer key questions: How much time can we tentatively allocate without blocking confirmed work? Is this project planned properly? Can we predict how much work is coming in?”

“Float increased our resourcing efficiency by 50%. It gives us a lot of information when estimating projects. Margin’s a big one—Float gives us visibility much sooner if something is off.”

“We implemented Float and we 100% couldn’t have run an effective business without it. It is the essential resource for understanding availability across the studio holistically in a scalable way.”

“It gives me safety that I know everything is in there. All the work that has been done is recorded there; we don't miss a bill. We don't overcharge the customer. It gives us visibility into the company that we didn't have before.”

“The biggest thing it helps me with is managing the workforce. I can plan the people into the right projects for the amount of time necessary. I use it as a dashboard to know who's working on what, and until when. If there are upcoming vacations, I will let the client know that it might affect our output.”

“We use Float because it solves our problems. It gives me a single place where I can quickly know who's working on what, until when, and how much budget I have left—and then communicate this both to our clients and our accountants so that we can bill the clients properly. It works.”

“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.”

““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.”

“We can talk about it, we can email about it, we can have meetings about it. But you can also just go and look at the plans in Float; it takes that barrier down. Float is pretty close to being the single source of truth. If a project is not in there, someone forgot to add it to Float.”

“Float has reduced friction. There’s a lot less frustration and less confusion about who’s working on what, which greatly eases the initial stages of a project.”

“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.”

“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!”