Float

“Float’s profitability tracking has been a game-changer. We’ve been able to quickly assess project profitability right from the planning stage, which has helped us make faster, more informed decisions.”

“Float enables us to answer key questions: How much time can we tentatively allocate without blocking confirmed work? Is this project planned properly? Can we predict how much work is coming in?”

“Float increased our resourcing efficiency by 50%. It gives us a lot of information when estimating projects. Margin’s a big one—Float gives us visibility much sooner if something is off.”

“We implemented Float and we 100% couldn’t have run an effective business without it. It is the essential resource for understanding availability across the studio holistically in a scalable way.”

““We had a few people test it out with a couple of projects before we rolled it out. Once we decided to go ahead, the team acclimated surprisingly quick. It only took users about a week to transition over to Float and get comfortable with it.“”

““So far so good! We’ve been able to sustain our amount of projects without bogging down, and we’ve been impressed with how quick the UI is,””

““We needed a resourcing software that could handle our workload, without outages and lag time, and that could make updates in real time,””

“When managing 100 to 200 projects at once, we need to be able to see everyone’s schedules at a high level. We also love the sorting and filtering options and being able to build and save our favorite schedule views. We weren’t able to do that in our last software, so the custom views for us has been an added bonus with Float.”

“We’ve made some significant improvements in knowing what the team is working on… for six months ahead. Having better predictability is huge for us.”

“Float is now the main source of data for building out monthly and quarterly projections.”

“We needed a way to calculate the availability of our resources. We needed to see if we were moving too quickly on budgets and where we would run out… but we didn’t have that in our previous all-in-one tool.”

““I put 15 minutes on my Float and I won't forget to call them. I don't have to write a to-do list, I don't have to put a calendar reminder, it's in there, so it’ll get done.””

““When you go over hours, it shows up red and you're like, okay, this is too much for one person. It prevents overbooking before it even happens.””

““When we were planning,” explains Clara, “we could see that there were more and more clients, things were getting tighter and tighter. That expresses the need to recruit.””

“Before Float, we used a lot of to-do lists and task management, but many times, we all felt we didn't know what we were doing. We didn't know what to prioritize. We needed to see something visually and allow the team to say, hang on a minute, what you’re asking for can’t be done today but it can be done tomorrow.”

““We love Float. We’d be lost without [it].””

“I've never [before] worked in a place where I know exactly what I need to do each day. I'm not worrying about prioritizing. I know exactly what I'm doing—my whole team does—and everything gets done.”

“The hardest part is the cultural change when you're going from an organization that's not really used to time tracking or hasn't been [logging time] consistently to one where it's now a requirement. Anyone in any organization can attest to that being difficult.”

“In general, there's an appetite for anything that can make the team's life easier in any organization. So everybody was excited when it came to the capacity tracking [because] everyone appreciates a more consolidated project timeline view. So that part was easy.”

“Float looked to be a good middle ground between some of the programs we felt didn't do enough and some that we felt were just a step beyond what we needed right now, like Monday.”

“Just being able to pop into Float and show leadership the status of projects as opposed to having to put together a unique report just for that is very helpful. I would say [Float] does what it says on the box. It just makes life easier in all.”

“Having forecasting connected to a visual tool and not having to be messing around in graphs to figure that out is super helpful.”

“That alone also saves loads of conversations. These are granular time savers over the course of a week, and when you look at it as a whole across a big team, it saves a huge amount of time across the board and for me as an individual. It's like two hours a day per person because you're cutting out that morning brief session for me as a manager and the day-to-day standups I used to have.”

“Float has made us 50% more efficient in terms of how we're budget tracking and streamlining our workflow. We took on a project at the start of this year, and it was the first time we’d done a project like that. We used the reports from that project to baseline future ones. We've done five more of those projects this year, and every single one came in right on budget exactly where we planned it.”

“It's got a bit of a calming effect because if anyone checks their calendar on a day-to-day basis, they know what they've got coming up and what time they've got to work with. It helps counteract the Sunday scaries because there are guardrails in there to help people know what's coming in their week, on any given day.”