One workspace for the five workflows your agency runs every week.
Client onboarding. Project billing. Sales to deposit. Retainer reporting. Subcontractor management. All in one place, instead of stitched across five different tools.
Six building blocks. Five workflows. One workspace.
Every client request, meeting, note, hour, and invoice in one connected record.
Intake
Forms write to the client record
Booking
Calls land beside the brief
Project record
Notes, files, tasks, and status
Client context
Share exactly what they need
Time tracking
Timer lives where work happens
Invoicing
Bills from tracked context
Built with — not for — early agencies.
Quotes are from teams using Ascend during early access. Names initialled at their request while we keep the founding-cohort cap small.
"We replaced Notion, Toggl, and FreshBooks with one tool. The first month our billable-hour capture went up 14% just because the timer was right there on the record."
Maya R.
Founder, 6-person creative studio
"I sent my first invoice 11 minutes after signing up. The fact that hours, projects, and the invoice all share one database is the whole game."
Jordan T.
Solo consultant
"Client sharing without per-seat fees is the unlock. We give external collaborators view access to the exact records they need — no more emailing screenshots."
Priya K.
Ops lead, dev shop
Capture the request. Book the call.
Do the work. Bill the time.
Capture the request. Book the call. Do the work. Bill the time. Most client-work stacks scatter the brief, booking, project notes, timer, and invoice across separate tools. Ascend keeps them attached to the same client record from day one.
Capture the request
Public intake forms and client onboarding forms write directly into your workspace database. The brief, files, source, and client details start in the place the work will happen.
No orphaned form submissions.
Book the call
Share a booking link from the same workspace. Confirmed calls land beside the client record with custom answers attached, so discovery details do not disappear into a separate scheduler inbox.
Bookings become usable client data.
Work from the record
Every database row opens into a rich page: notes, files, decisions, sub-tasks, comments, and the timer. The record is not a dead end — it becomes the operating room for the work.
Context stays where work happens.
Track time where the context lives
Hit play on the page or row. Hours accumulate against the right client and project automatically, while the brief, notes, and client comments stay one click away.
Fewer forgotten timers. Cleaner invoices.
Invoice from the data you already have
Ascend pulls the tracked hours and project details from the same record, builds a branded invoice, and sends it. No exports. No spreadsheet reconciliation. No guessing what was billable.
Record to payment in minutes.
Stop stitching together forms, bookings, databases, timers, and invoices.
The brief is in a form tool. The call is in a scheduler. Notes live in a project app. Hours sit in a timer. The invoice happens somewhere else. Ascend keeps the whole loop connected.
The Usual Setup
- Intake in one app, bookings in another, project notes in a third — nothing talks to anything
- Open a booking confirmation → re-key the brief → manually create the project record
- Invoicing means exporting, reformatting, and hoping the hours match the work
- Billable time gets lost between the cracks of your tool stack every single week
Ascend
- Every database row IS a full page — not a sidebar peek (vs. Airtable, Monday)
- Forms write straight into your databases — no Zapier, no glue (vs. Tally, Typeform)
- Booking links land confirmations straight into your data — no Calendly inbox to re-key (vs. Calendly, SavvyCal)
- Clients collaborate on your records for free — no per-seat fees (vs. ClickUp, Asana, Notion guests)
- Inbox to invoice in one system — no reconciliation between tools (vs. Notion + Toggl + FreshBooks)
Five workflows your team runs every week.
Each one is normally spread across four or five tools. In Ascend they sit in one place, on one record, under one brand for your clients.
Forms · Databases · Pages · Booking · Sharing
Client onboarding
Pages · Time tracking · Invoicing
Project billing
Forms · Booking · Pages · Sharing · Invoicing
Discovery to deposit
Databases · Time tracking · Invoicing · Pages · Sharing
Retainer management
Databases · Sharing · Time tracking · Invoicing
Subcontractor management
Or pick the cut closest to your business.
The five workflows are the same. The labels, templates and examples shift to match what you actually sell.
Consultants
Turn lead calls, project notes, tracked hours, and invoices into one clean client record.
See use caseMarketing agencies
Run campaign intake, kickoff booking, approvals, retainer burn, and client reporting together.
See use caseDevelopment shops
Keep discovery calls, scope decisions, sprint work, retainers, and invoices connected.
See use caseThe agency tool tax is real.
Pricing for a 10-person agency to cover projects, time tracking, and invoicing.
Apples to apples · 10-person team · public US pricing
| Tool stack | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
ClickUp + Harvest + FreshBooks Project + time + invoicing | $210/mo | $2,520/yr |
Monday + Toggl + QuickBooks Project + time + accounting | $285/mo | $3,420/yr |
Productive.io (with invoicing) All-in-one agency tool | $280/mo | $3,360/yr |
Scoro All-in-one agency tool | $260/mo | $3,120/yr |
Ascend Studio $49 Studio + 7 × $19/seat | $182/mo | $1,820/yr |
One workspace, not three subscriptions. Studio is $49/mo for up to 3 seats, then $19/seat. Solo is $19/mo for independent operators.
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"You'll talk to the founders, not a support bot."
Bruce and June built Ascend after 15 years delivering enterprise projects. During early access, every support ticket gets a personal response — usually the same day.