With hundreds of online project and task managers, turns out clients hate most of them and projects suffer as developers, designers and agencies struggle to manage and track production. We decided to find a better way to keep clients and providers happy through clarity, simplicity and accountability at both ends of project management.
Client-first project tracker.
graduall
Challenge
Our Approach
Graduall is the first project tracker that requires no learning curve. Projects are organized in common-language phases and each divided in sequential and incremental touchpoints with revision/approval cycles until the whole project is complete without friction, surprises or waste, delivered on time at full spec.
Features
- Uncomplicated, zero learning project tracker
- Easy to align with any production process or workflow
- Suitable for simple or complex projects
- Easy to keep client-provider on the same page at all time
- Eliminates redundant and messy communication
- Simplifies parallel projects management
- Follows agile methodology without having to learn Scrum
- Tracks history, wait times and delays for both ways accountability
- Assets and deliverables manager
- Drag and drop proofing, revision instructions and demonstrations
- Integration with third party tools for design, coding, proofing and collaboration
- Fully white-label and easy to integrate with provider’s identity and branding
Differentiation
- Works for any project size and workflow complexity
- Removes email back and forth
- Reduces misalignment and disputes between client and provider
- Only one task is active at any given time, simplifying revisions and approvals
- Historical log helps transfer knowledge in production hand-offs
Validated idea
- 9/10 projects completed on time
- Reduced disputes or cancellations by 90%
- Tested tracking up to 10 medium complexity projects in parallel
- Successfully implemented on design, coding, copywriting, event planning and business development projects
Roadmap
- Investment to launch Graduall as a subscription SaaS
- Integration with Sumout as an end-to-end project quoting and tracking solution
- Promotion of third-party proofing, collaboration and storage services
- AI assistance for cleanup, summaries, statistics and monitoring