Fernway for Studios

Turn every project into one the client keeps talking about.

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Run your studio, your way.

Build trust (and a reputation) with the people paying you.

Ship quality work, on time, every single round.

Stay on top of every hour, billable or not.

Get a ten-thousand-foot view of every moving piece.

Work with clients — no gatekeeping.

Invite clients in as guests, free.

Scope access down to a single list, task, or attribute, so a client sees exactly what concerns them — and nothing else.

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Catch every client request in one place with Intake Forms.

An incoming ask lands in your inbox as a real task, so nothing quietly dies in a thread.

New client enquiry

Who are you? (Required)

name@example.com

Which services are you curious about? (Required)

How did you hear about the studio? (Required)

Get your team and your clients reading the same page.

Pull updates from the tools you already use, keep deliverables in one spot, and settle feedback in the thread where the work lives.

Chat
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Laura Craigie

Any thoughts on the latest logo direction?

Laura Craigie posted an update on Arden — logo design

Arden

Josh Barrow what do you reckon?

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Josh Barrow

Looks strong. Can we push the mark 15% larger and try it on the deeper ground?

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Laura Craigie added Brand guidelines.pdf and Arden ID — editable.zip to Deliverables

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Run projects end to end, your way.

Give clients a plan cut to their shape.

All the building blocks in one place: set up a custom workflow for any kind of project in minutes.

Client request
Use this form to spin up a starting task framework for a new brief.
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Show progress in whatever shape your client reads best.

Flip between spreadsheet, board, timeline, and calendar at any point to see where a project actually stands.

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Keep tabs on what is moving across accounts, projects, and teams.

Dynamic filters round up scattered tasks, or cut straight to one narrow slice, in a couple of clicks.

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Track time and make it count.

Take the sting out of filing a timesheet.

Your team can start the clock on the task itself, and the entry syncs both ways between Fernway and your time tool in real time.

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Get timesheets you can actually stand behind.

Show the value you bring and the work behind every invoice by auto-linking tasks to time entries.

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1 MON 4:05:00

T-5443 Rework the identity kitIdentity · 1:12:00

2 TUE 4:38:00

T-5402 First-pass concepts3:14:00
T-5443 Rework the identity kitIdentity

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T-5443 Trainer silhouettesFootwear
T-5402 Campaign build1:46:00

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Find out where your time is really going.

Spot bottlenecks, margin-eating tasks, and at-risk work with smart lists that do the arithmetic for you.

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Trainer silhouettesIn progress05:04

Everything you need to impress clients, ship work you are proud of, and grow the studio.

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Understand the ins and outs of
your studio.

See every part of the business from one source of truth.

From creative to operations to new business, Fernway bends to fit whatever process your studio already runs on.

Tune the workflow until the margin looks right.

Compare billable against non-billable hours to manage capacity and set estimates that hold.

Focus on the client work — automate the rest.

Fernway Routines handle the repetitive chores: handing tasks between teams, auto-assigning requests, chasing sign-off.

Grow without dropping a beat.

Collect leads, track conversations with prospects, and onboard new clients in the same place the work happens.

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You appreciate a good pitch. Here is ours.

In the words of the studios that use it.

“I have run a studio on five different project tools and Fernway is the first one the clients actually opened. It cut our feedback loop from three days to one, and we doubled revenue because of how quickly we can take a new client on now.
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Marta Vieira

Founder, Sablewood — a brand studio

Hit the ground running with ready-made
templates.

No long-winded setup. Start in minutes with a template and reshape it as you go.

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Bexley Bakehouse Contacted
Fresh Kicks Qualified
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Client intake

Tidy up how you receive and qualify new client projects with this intake template.

client-onboarding Use this list to onboard new clients
All onboarding In progress
First consultation
Draft the proposal
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Arden onboarding
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Client onboarding

Set each new client up for success with a repeatable onboarding run.

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Project management

Run several client projects start to finish and keep progress visible the whole way.

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Project management that raises
the bar.

Keep every project on scope and clients talking about you — effortless to run day to day, and stacked with under-the-hood power for the weeks when you need it.

Hundreds of features make Fernway endlessly customisable.

Chat Subtasks Dark theme Filters Inbox Smart lists Public API Custom fields Private tasks Boards Timelines Group mentions Deep search Archive Intake forms Desktop apps Command bar Spreadsheet Calendar Webhooks

Wire the tools you already use straight into Fernway.

You will be in good company.

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Grow the holistic world organicallyBacklogPortrait — Foto Sushi on PexelsPortrait — Ben Khatry on Pexels
Flip the flag for 25 beta testersBacklogPortrait — Jake Nackos on Unsplash
Implement landing pagePortrait — Prince on PexelsPortrait — Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on Pexels
Summarise research insightsIn progressPortrait — Korede Adenola on Pexels
Design review with stakeholdersIn progressPortrait — Foto Sushi on PexelsPortrait — Ben Khatry on PexelsPortrait — Jake Nackos on Unsplash
Finalise use casesPortrait — Prince on Pexels
Get sign-off on user quotesPortrait — Thanh Xuan Nguyen Ly on PexelsPortrait — Korede Adenola on Pexels
Design the new websitePortrait — Foto Sushi on Pexels
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