Can Pike handle fixed-fee projects?

Yes. Set the project type to fixed price and add a budget. Logged hours are costed at each person's hourly cost, so you see margin on the fee while the project runs.

How do we account for freelancers?

Keep them in the contractor list with rates, skills, and contracts. Bring one onto a project as a member with an hourly cost so their hours count as project cost, or log their invoice as a project expense.

Can clients review work in Pike?

Yes. Invite clients as guests at no cost. Guests see only the projects and tasks you add them to, and they can comment and reply on the work.

How do pitches show up in planning?

Create the pitch as a proposed project and book people on it. Proposed work shows on the capacity grid next to confirmed work, and reports can filter it out.

Do we still need a separate timesheet app?

Pike has timers, a weekly timesheet, and approvals. Hours land on the project budget and the invoice, with no second tool to reconcile against a finance sheet.

Industries · Creative agencies

Keep the fee fixed
when round three lands

Pike puts the brief, the studio's bookings, the hours, and the margin on one project. Producers see budget burn before the next round of feedback, not after the invoice.

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Where creative margin goes

The fee is set at the pitch. The margin is decided in delivery, in places a spreadsheet only shows after the job closes.

Revision rounds nobody counted

Round three of feedback lands on a fixed fee. Without hours logged against the project, nobody knows the job is underwater until timesheets are reconciled.

Senior designers booked twice

The same art director sits on two pitches and a launch. The clash surfaces in Monday's stand-up instead of in the plan.

Freelancers outside the numbers

Illustrators and motion designers are paid from a separate sheet. Their cost never reaches the project, so the margin looks better than it is.

Fixed fees

Watch the fee burn as hours land

Set the project to fixed price with a budget. Every hour is costed at the person's real hourly cost.

Producers see spend against the fee mid-project, while there is still time to talk scope with the client.

Studio capacity grid with proposed pitch work next to confirmed projects

Book the studio by person

See every designer's week across all clients. Pencil in pitch work as proposed and confirm it when the client signs.

Contractor list with freelance illustrators and motion designers, their skills and hourly rates

Freelancers with rates and skills

Keep illustrators, animators, and copywriters in one contractor list with rates, skills, and contracts.

Client reviews

Bring the client into the task

Invite clients as guests at no cost. They see only their project and reply on the work itself.

Feedback lands on the task it belongs to, with files and versions attached, instead of in a forwarded email chain.

Who uses it

One workspace for the whole studio

Each role opens Pike to the numbers it answers for.

Managing director

Margin by client and the pipeline of pitches: which accounts fund the studio and which cost it.

Producer

Budgets, deadlines, and who is free next week, on the projects you run.

Designer

Your tasks, a timer on the task, and the client's feedback on your work.

Questions from creative agencies

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The features behind this page

Finance & invoicing

Live margin by client, project, and team, with invoices that flow to your bookkeeping.

Resourcing & capacity

See capacity at a glance, soft-book tentative work, and staff roles with placeholders.

Customers & sales

Deals convert to projects, with pipeline, delivery, and profitability per customer.

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Industries · Creative agencies

Keep the fee fixed
when round three lands

Pike puts the brief, the studio's bookings, the hours, and the margin on one project. Producers see budget burn before the next round of feedback, not after the invoice.

Contact sales

Sound familiar