Run the agency, not just the work.
You started it to do great work. Somewhere along the way you also became the person who finds out, a quarter too late, where the money went. Ancor gives you the whole picture while you can still act on it.
Agency profitability software shows you whether each project is actually making money, while the project is still running. Ancor connects the fee you quoted, the rates you bill, and the hours your team logs, then calculates margin per project in real time. You see which work earns and which work bleeds in time to act on it.
The margin you find out about too late.
Most agencies run profitable on paper and thin in reality, and the gap only shows up after the quarter closes. By then the over-servicing is done, the scope has crept, and the call you needed to make in week two is a lesson instead of a decision. The numbers were always there. They just lived in a spreadsheet nobody updated until it was too late to matter.
Margin you can't see
Every project feels fine until the numbers come in. By then the money's spent and the lesson is expensive.
Capacity you can't read
Your best people won't say they're drowning. The work shows it first - if you have a view that's actually looking.
Decisions made too late
The call you needed in week two only becomes obvious in week nine, long after it could have changed anything.
One honest view of the whole agency.
Ancor is one connected workspace, so logged time feeds budget, and budget feeds margin, in real time. Nobody exports anything. Per-project profitability is a first-class live view, not a report you assemble after the fact. That is the difference between agency financial visibility you can act on and a post-mortem you read.
- ✓Live margin on every project - see what's making money and what's bleeding, while you can still steer. See how it works.
- ✓Capacity before it breaks - Team Pulse flags overload and burnout risk ahead of the week, so you know who has room and who's buried.
- ✓Estimates from your real history - the AI Planner drafts scope and price for new work from the projects you've actually finished. More on estimating agency projects.
- ✓Flat per-team pricing - one price for the whole team, not per seat, so adding people to a project never quietly eats the margin. See pricing.
Built for agencies, not any team.
Ancor works for every kind of agency - design, marketing, branding, social, content, performance, and digital, plus studios, consultancies, and dev shops. If you bill for your team's time, the math is the same: margin is the number that decides whether the work was worth doing. General task tools track the work. Ancor tracks the business behind it. See how it compares to the tools built for any team in any industry.
The questions founders actually ask.
How does Ancor show project profitability?
Ancor connects the budget you set, the rates you bill, and the hours your team logs against each task. As time is tracked, it calculates margin per project in real time. You see revenue, cost of delivery, and the gap between them on a live view, not in a spreadsheet you reconcile at the end.
Does it work if we bill retainers and fixed-fee?
Yes. You set the fee for a project or retainer, your team logs time against it, and Ancor measures the cost of delivery against that fee. Fixed-fee and retainer work is exactly where margin slips quietly, because the price is locked but the effort is not, so live visibility matters most there.
How is this different from a spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet is a snapshot you build by hand after the fact. Ancor is the live system the work already runs in, so logged time feeds budget feeds margin automatically. You see a project drifting in week two, not when you reconcile the quarter, and the numbers update without anyone maintaining a file.
Can I see margin before a project ends?
Yes, that is the point. Margin updates continuously as time is logged, so you can see a project heading underwater while you can still change scope, reassign people, or have the client conversation. Profitability stops being a post-mortem and becomes something you steer.
How does Ancor help me price the next project?
The AI Planner reads your finished projects - the real hours and the real shape of the work - and drafts an estimate for new work with timing and budget already worked out. You price the next project from what your agency actually did, not from a hopeful guess.