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Ideas on work, AI & building better teams

Product updates, playbooks and stories from teams building with Atwork.

Templates

How to Tell If You Actually Need to Hire

Separate planned hours, certainty and real capacity before you hire. Why teams feel busy with capacity spare, and four ways to resolve an overbooked week.

Templates

Why Web Projects Slip on Content, Not Design

Web builds slip because the critical path runs through the client's week. Why a page needs two states, when to ask for content, and how to date a launch.

Client Management

Client Portals for Agencies: What Your Client Should Actually See

What a client portal should show, how to give clients access without workspace membership, and how to keep it current without a weekly update ritual.

Client Management

Client Status Updates Without the Weekly Call

How to replace the weekly status call: what belongs in a written client update, how often to send it, and why the page and the message must share one source.

Client Management

Client Approvals: Why Revision Rounds Multiply

Why agency revision rounds multiply, what an approval must contain to hold, how to separate feedback from decisions, and how many rounds belong in the contract.

Templates

The 9-Step Client Onboarding Checklist for Agencies

The nine-step agency client onboarding checklist: what to send when, how to run the asset chase as one list, and why the approver must be named at kickoff.

Client Management

What to Put in a Monthly Client Report (and What to Cut)

What belongs in an agency's monthly client report, what to cut, how to report a month that went badly, and who actually reads the first page.

Team Collaboration

Telegram + Atwork: Send Updates Where Your Client Actually Reads

Connect a Telegram bot to Atwork: workflows send status updates and approval buttons to client groups, and replies create items and update statuses automatically.

AI Tools

Vista: Describe a Page, Get an App on Your Live Data

Vista is an Atwork view where you describe a page and Dana builds it on your live sheets: dashboards, forms, and client pages you can publish as apps.

Tutorials

Publish to LinkedIn From the Sheet You Plan In

Connect LinkedIn to Atwork and publish from a workflow: a status change on a sheet row becomes a post on your profile, with images, links and visibility control.

Task Management

Airtable for Agencies: The Middle Tier Is the Trap

On Airtable Team a commenting client costs a full $20 seat. On Business they are free. Why the more expensive plan is cheaper for agencies.

Task Management

Wrike vs Asana for Agencies: You Buy Blocks, Not Seats

Wrike sells seats in groups of five and caps Team at 15 users. A $10 seat costs $16.67 at three people, and the 16th hire takes the bill from $150 to $500.