Stewart SystemsChristian Stewart · Wollongong
Industries / Creative studios and agencies

Creative studios and agencies

Too many projects in flight, capacity you can't see, retainers that leak hours, and approvals lost in email threads.

Design, marketing, architecture, photography and video
What usually goes wrong

Three things we hear most.

Capacity is a guessYou say yes to work without knowing if the team can take it.
Retainers leakOut-of-scope work that never gets billed.
Briefs and approvals scatterFeedback in email, Slack and phone calls, and nobody's sure which version was signed off.
At every level

How far it can go.

Start at whichever level solves the problem. Each one builds on the last.

Register

The Register

A project and approvals tracker, or a retainer hours log with alerts. In your own Google Drive or OneDrive, with a form on your phone.

Board

The Board

Everything in the Register, plus: board of projects, capacity, retainers and pipeline, with a morning brief. Installed in your own Claude account. Xero money and the register are live today; the other panels are on the roadmap and confirmed in writing before you sign.

Operator

The Operator

Everything in the Board, plus two more connected areas and up to three draft flows: weekly client status drafted, retainer overage flagged and invoiced, monthly studio report. A named person reads and sends every draft.

The Board

The business on one screen.

Up to four areas, pulled live from the tools you already use.

See a demo board for your industry →

Reads from: Xero, Asana, Monday, Notion, HubSpot, Google Drive. Read-only unless you ask otherwise, in writing.

The morning brief

What needs you today.

One short email at 6am, each line linked to the thing itself.

Drafted for you to check

  • Weekly client status update
  • Change request for out-of-scope work
  • Proposal from your template
Next step

See what this would look like for you.

The Snapshot maps how your business actually runs, then shows which level is worth doing. Free, thirty minutes, yours to keep.