Project budgeting built on real rates and costs

Budget fees and costs — labor and expenses — before the work starts. Operating prices the plan with your actual rate cards and cost rates, so every estimate shows revenue, cost, and margin. Not just a number in a cell.

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Both sides of the budget: fees and costs, labor and expenses

Plan the people and price them two ways at once — cost rates for what the work costs you, rate cards for what it earns on time-and-materials. On fixed price, the budget sets the top line. Add planned expenses, and the estimate is the whole project, not just the hours.

  • Labor priced from cost rates (bottom line) and rate cards (top line)
  • Fixed price or time-and-materials — the billing model sets where revenue comes from
  • Planned expenses included: subcontracting, travel, hotels, and the rest

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+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Budget the deal before it closes

Pipeline projects get real budgets, not guesses. Plan with placeholder roles that carry costs and rates from your rate cards — and when a real person is staffed, their actual costs take over. Deal value flows straight in from your CRM.

  • Tentative pipeline projects budgeted like real ones
  • Placeholder roles carry rates and costs until someone is staffed
  • Budget prefilled from deal value — HubSpot, Pipedrive, or Salesforce

Sketch fast, refine when it matters — and see every project's margin

Rough out a plan in broad strokes to sanity-check a deal, then refine it into phases and varying workloads as it firms up. Across the portfolio, one list shows every upcoming project with its planned revenue, cost, and profit.

  • High-level sketch in minutes; phases and alternating workloads when needed
  • Every upcoming project's planned profit in one list view
  • Compare planned margins across projects before committing people
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