

Agencies need to react quickly and often within minutes to new requirements. But rigid tools make spontaneous adjustments unnecessarily complicated. If you waste time here, whole projects can be delayed and the client feels it in the end. This can cost an agency the trust of their client.
Knowing your team’s capacity is crucial for smooth workflows. Most tools only show rough overviews and lack true resource management. Overbookings or downtime are practically inevitable – which is bad for both your team and your projects.
Agencies need time tracking that’s as flexible as their everyday work. If time entries have to be added manually or tracking is too complicated, data gets lost and invoicing becomes inaccurate. That doesn’t just cost money – in the worst case, it costs client trust.
Clients and external partners want to be involved quickly – but many tools make collaboration unnecessarily difficult or expensive. Important feedback is delayed, coordination drags on, and projects stall. That’s frustrating for everyone involved.
The result: Teams spend too much time organising, instead of actually creating. Projects get delayed, clients are dissatisfied, and the overview is lost. This is exactly where awork comes in.









Generic tools like Asana, Monday.com or ClickUp were built for all industries — not for day-to-day agency life. They lack the core agency logic: time is money, budgets must be tracked on a project-by-project basis, capacity must be planned according to actual hours worked, and clients and freelancers must be integrated without extra licence costs. The result is workarounds, external tools and fragmented data — instead of centralised control.
awork is purpose-built for agencies. This means:
In short: An agency tool like awork takes care of the usual organisational headaches, so you can focus on your creative work and happy clients.
“When I’ve worked with other project management tools in the past, the biggest screw-ups were actually always that the people who made them had no idea about the agency business. With awork, I can tell it’s different. It comes from the agency world.”
Sebastian Smieja, CEO @ Brand Factory Digital
A generic tool organises tasks. Agency software manages profitability. The key difference: In awork, the logic of Time → Budget → Utilisation → Profitability is natively integrated — without custom fields, manual dashboards or external time-tracking tools. What needs to be configured first in Asana or Monday.com works in awork from day one.
Agencies need features that truly support their complex and fast-paced workflows. awork delivers exactly that, helping your team work productively, flexibly and efficiently:
With awork, agencies can manage projects reliably, make the most of their teams, and always keep clients in the loop quickly and professionally.
“With awork, we’ve found a tool that combines all the functions of everyday agency life.”
Vincent Hartig, CEO @ rayon
awork is the only project management software developed specifically for agencies. Whilst Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp, Jira, Trello and Notion are generic tools, awork natively integrates core agency functionality: time tracking linked to budgets, genuine capacity planning based on available hours, and freelancer integration with no licence fees.
More than 10,000 agency teams use awork, including thjnk, fischerAppelt and pilot.
awork offers all the features needed to successfully plan teams and projects in agencies. This makes awork a great alternative to many project management software solutions for teams that place particular value on fast and reliable planning.
awork vs. Asana: awork is the better choice for agencies because time tracking, budget control and capacity planning are natively integrated, and awork offers a GDPR-compliant Asana alternative hosted in Germany.
awork vs. Monday.com: Monday.com offers maximum flexibility but lacks pre-built agency logic — awork provides agency workflows as an alternative to Monday.com
awork vs. ClickUp: ClickUp offers broad functionality but requires extensive configuration — awork is leaner, specifically built for billable client projects and works without a major setup.
awork vs. Jira: The project management tool Jira is built for software development teams — awork is simpler, specifically designed for client projects and integrates freelancers and clients without guest user licences.
And for those who have been using Excel as a project management tool, awork offers an intuitive solution that even teams with little experience of such tools will find quick and easy to use.
Agencies often juggle several client projects in parallel – each with its own deadlines, teams and requirements. In awork, you can manage all projects centrally, track progress in real time and assign tasks clearly. Dashboards and project views instantly show you where each project stands – no more constant chasing or searching for information.
Absolutely. You can simply invite external people to projects, with individual authorisations. This allows you to work transparently without disrupting internal processes.
Agencies are switching to awork because generic tools do not natively support the core logic of agency work: time tracking is isolated or missing entirely, budgets have to be managed manually, and capacity planning is based on estimates rather than actual availability. awork combines all of this in a single system — with no setup, no external tools and no workarounds.

My team is truly excited about awork. We've tested other tools and were not as happy, but now we’ve found genuine relief and support for everyone.

awork enables us to have a very professional appearance in front of our clients.

More efficient processes save us time and money every day. awork pays off.

With awork, we have found a tool that combines all the functions of everyday agency life.

Without awork, we would not be able to work so profitably and generate such good figures.

With awork, we have a better forecast for our project planning, from the pitch phase to retainer projects.


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