What Is an MCP? How Professional Services Firms Can Connect AI to Their Data
For a professional services firm, an MCP can mean asking plain-language questions about utilization, project margin and capacity, and getting answers built on live numbers.
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Five Questions That Reveal Your Agency’s Planning Gap
A planning gap is the space between the decisions an agency must make and what its current systems can actually show. Most agencies have one.
Timesheets Without Resentment
This article is for agency leaders who want accurate time data without turning timesheets into a weekly fight. It lays out a simple Friday and Monday rhythm, clear ownership, and language that makes time tracking feel like protection, not policing.
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Parallax vs. Runn: Comparing Two Approaches to Resource Planning
Parallax and Runn both help agencies see who is available and what work is coming. Runn is resource management and capacity planning software, and the plan, rate cards, timesheets and project financials all live inside Runn. Parallax reads the CRM and time tracking tools an agency already runs and puts sold work and open pipeline in one view of capacity, revenue and margin. The choice comes down to where you want the plan to live.
What Is an MCP? How Professional Services Firms Can Connect AI to Their Data
For a professional services firm, an MCP can mean asking plain-language questions about utilization, project margin and capacity, and getting answers built on live numbers.
Harvest Forecast Alternatives for Agencies
Compare Forecast against Parallax, Float, Runn and Productive on pricing, scheduling depth, and whether capacity and its financial consequences show up in the same view.
Why Fixed-Price Projects Break Resource Planning Tools Built for Hourly Work
Fixed-price projects break planning tools built for hourly work. How to plan capacity and protect margin when the price is set before work starts.
How to Measure, Forecast, and Estimate Agency Project Profitability
How to measure agency project profitability, forecast it while the work is still running, and estimate the next project so the margin holds.
Yes, Resource Management Software Can Forecast Staffing. It Just Won’t Tell You What That Staffing Costs.
Resource management software can forecast staffing when it reads your pipeline. Here is what it misses: what that staffing mix costs, and when.
Why Agency Forecasts Collapse Beyond Two Weeks
Why agency forecasting falls apart past two weeks, and how to build a rolling forecast that connects the sales pipeline to the capacity your team has.
Resource Planning Tools for Agencies: A Forecast-First Comparison
A forecast-first comparison of resource planning tools for agencies, with 2026 pricing for Float, Runn, Productive and Scoro, and where each fits.
How to Build a Resource Plan That Holds Up Against Actuals
How to build a resource plan that still holds in week six, when schedules shift and scope changes, and the plan absorbs it without a rebuild.