You bought five tools to run one agency. This is the one.
Ancor plans your work, tracks the time, watches the margin, and handles the invoicing. It also does the thing no other tool does: it flags the projects losing money, and the deliverables marked "approved" that your client never actually signed off on. One system, built for agencies that bill for their time.
What is Ancor OS?
Ancor OS is agency management software that runs planning, time, margin, client sign-off and GST invoicing in one workspace. It is built for agencies that bill for their time: design, marketing, branding, social, content and digital agencies, plus studios and consultancies. What separates it from a general project tool is that it reads what actually happened rather than what was typed into a status field, so it can flag a project losing money while there is still budget left, and catch work marked "approved" that the client never signed off on. Pricing is one flat monthly fee for the whole team rather than a price per seat, starting at ₹9,999 a month for up to 10 people, with a 14-day trial that asks for no credit card.
Projects drift quietly. You'll see it the week it starts.
Most tools track tasks. Ancor tracks the business behind them. Every project watches its own budget and flags the risk early, so you don't reach the last week and realize you gave the work away.
- ✓Kanban and list views, switch freely per project
- ✓Budget burn against estimated hours, in real time
- ✓Risk flags the moment a project drifts off track
- ✓Project health you can read at a glance
Nobody remembers Thursday on Friday. So the timer lives in the task.
No separate app. No end-of-day guessing at what you did. There's a timer on every task. Start it, pause it, resume it, and watch budget-vs-actual move as you go.
- ✓One-click timers on any task, in any view
- ✓Forgot to start it? Add the time by hand
- ✓Timesheets per person and per team
- ✓Budget vs actual hours on every project
- ✓Margin per project and per client
Who has room next week? One screen, not four phone calls.
Team Pulse gives you a live read on the whole team's workload. See who's maxed out, who has room, and what's booked for the next four weeks, without pinging anyone to ask.
- ✓Capacity by department and by person
- ✓Utilization per person and per team
- ✓A four-week rolling forecast of the load
- ✓Match the right skills to the work
- ✓Burnout warnings before someone goes under
Mobile App Redesign - 78% of budget used, 55% complete. At this pace you'll overrun by about 12 hours.
Q2 Campaign - client feedback has been sitting unactioned for three days.
Most AI is a chatbot in the corner. This one drafts the plan.
Two AI tools, built in. The AI Planner reads the projects you've already finished and drafts a plan for new work, with the timing and budget worked out from what similar jobs really took. The Assistant is a chat that proposes real actions in your workspace - you approve, edit, or dismiss each one.
- ✓Estimates drafted from your real past projects
- ✓Assignment suggestions that know who's busy
- ✓Tell the Assistant what to do, it makes the tasks
- ✓Ask it what's at risk, behind, or blocked
You learn the margin when you invoice. That is three months too late.
Margin and capacity sit side by side, moving as your team logs hours. Take a rebrand quoted at 120 hours. Without Ancor, you deliver it on time and only spot the overrun at invoicing, when a healthy margin has already turned into a loss. With Ancor, the margin starts slipping the moment the burn runs ahead of the plan, so you can move work, trim scope, or call the client while there's still time to act. Those same hours feed capacity, so you also see whether the person absorbing the overrun has room or is already maxed out. Profit and workload stop being two spreadsheets you reconcile after the fact.
- ✓Live margin by project, client, and department
- ✓Burn and capacity from the same logged hours
- ✓A warning before the overrun eats the margin
Nothing here is an add-on. It is all just included.
Every core feature is there on the trial and on every paid plan. A few limits change by plan and workspace settings.
Kanban and list views
Switch between board and list, per project
Task timers
One-click timers on every task, in every view
Capacity planning
See utilization and forecast upcoming load
Budget tracking
Budget burn against tracked hours, live
Profitability
Margin by project, client, and department
PDF client reports
One-click reports in your branding
AI Planner
Drafts plans and margin from finished work
AI Assistant
Chat that acts in your workspace, with your approval
Role-based access
Owner, admin, ops, and member permissions
Multi-currency
INR, USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD
Skill matching
Tag skills, match the right people to work
Team Pulse
Catch burnout risk before someone goes under
The Workroom
Clients review and approve through a link, no login
Departments
Organize teams with separate views
Generic tools fit any team. Which means they fit yours badly.
Asana, ClickUp, Notion, and Zoho are built for any team in any business. Ancor is built for one kind of business: agencies that bill for their time.
| Capability | Asana | ClickUp | Notion | Zoho | Ancor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project timeline visibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Predicts margin risk | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Spots burnout before it hits | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Client approvals, no client login | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Built for billable work | Basic | Basic | – | ✓ | Core |
| Estimates from your past projects | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
Based on each vendor's standard published plans, 2026. These change often, so check their sites for the latest.
The questions agencies ask before they switch.
What does Ancor OS do?
Ancor OS runs the whole of an agency's delivery in one place: project planning, task timers, team capacity, per-project and per-client margin, client review and sign-off, and GST invoicing. Its Ground Truth layer reads what clients actually do in a review rather than trusting a status field, so it flags projects that are losing money and work marked "approved" that the client never signed off on.
What is included in every plan?
Every core feature is on the free trial and on every paid plan: unlimited projects, unlimited clients, and the full AI feature set. There are no add-ons. A few limits change by plan, such as team size and the number of client portals.
Does Ancor replace separate time tracking and invoicing tools?
Yes, for most agencies. Time is tracked with one-click timers on the task itself, those hours feed the project budget and the margin live, and invoices are raised from the same data with GST handled. That removes the usual chain of a task tool, a timesheet tool, and a spreadsheet that reconciles them once a month.
How is Ancor different from a general project management tool?
General tools such as Asana, ClickUp and Notion are built for any team in any business, so they track tasks well and leave money, margin and capacity to add-ons or spreadsheets. Ancor is built for one kind of business: agencies that bill for their time. Margin per project and per client, capacity, and client sign-off are core, not extensions.
Can clients review and approve work without an Ancor account?
Yes. The Workroom gives each client a private link. They see what is ready, leave feedback, and approve, with no login and no account. That approval is recorded with an audit trail, which is what makes a disputed sign-off answerable later.
Where is agency data hosted, and is it used to train AI?
Data is hosted in India, in Mumbai. The AI runs on Google's enterprise Vertex platform, which does not train on your data, and credentials, keys and tokens are stripped before anything reaches a prompt. Work in one agency's workspace sharpens that agency's own plans and nobody else's.
What does Ancor cost?
One flat price a month for the whole team, not per seat. Studio is ₹9,999 a month for up to 10 people, Practice is ₹14,999 for up to 20, and Atelier is ₹19,999 for up to 30, with a sales-led Custom plan above 30. The 14-day trial asks for no credit card, and prices also show in USD, GBP, EUR, AUD and CAD.