Project management software for design and marketing agencies: the part before the project.

The gap in the usual agency stack

Agencies tend to have a tool for delivery and another for invoicing, and the gap between them is the inbox. New business enquiries land next to client threads and supplier mail. Whoever has a free hour sorts them. Some get a fast answer, some get an answer next week, and the pipeline is whatever the founder remembers.

Calling this project management is a stretch, but it is where agencies lose the projects they never got to manage. Viznerve is deliberately scoped to it. It does not run your sprints or your timesheets; it makes sure the right inquiries are answered quickly and that nothing quoted is forgotten.

What happens to an inquiry

Viznerve reads every inbound inquiry in connected Gmail and sorts it hot, warm, cold or not a fit against your studio profile: services, ideal clients, deal size. A retainer enquiry from a funded company with a clear goal ranks above a one-line request for "a quick logo". The scoring is explained on the inquiry triage page.

It then drafts the reply and, when the lead fits, a priced quote in your agency's voice from the brief. You approve and send. If a lead goes quiet it drafts the nudge on a cadence and stops the moment they reply. The full loop is described on quotes and follow-ups.

• One sorted queue instead of an inbox that mixes leads, clients and suppliers
• Replies and quotes drafted so the first response is fast and specific
• Follow-ups that do not depend on anyone remembering
• Every action logged in an audit trail you own

Capacity and cash before you say yes

Agency margins are decided by whether you accept work you can staff. Studio Health shows capacity against what is booked, pipeline value and cash runway in months, with a forward projection of revenue and load. Before a retainer is signed you can see whether the team has room, rather than finding out in week two.

Ask the same question in plain language with Ask Nerve: who owes us money, which hot leads are waiting for a reply, how loaded the next quarter looks. Answers come from your real data and name their source.

How it relates to your delivery tools

Viznerve connects to Gmail and Google Calendar, Stripe for revenue, and Google Drive or Dropbox for project files. It has no other integrations, so it sits alongside whatever you use to deliver work rather than replacing it. If you want a tool that tracks tasks and hours inside a project, this is not it. If you want the front half of the business to run without a dedicated ops hire, it is.

Setup and cost

Sign up with an email, connect Gmail, and Viznerve starts on real inbound in minutes. Billing is per action in credits with no per-seat charge, so adding account managers and designers does not change what you pay. Data is isolated per studio, never sold and never used to train AI models. Start with the 14-day free trial and 150 credits, no card.