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Per-project margin, no seats, no admin overhead.

Built for the founder running a 1–3 person studio — where you're still the salesperson, project lead, and senior craftsperson, and the P&L flows through your head. Track revenue, subcontractor cost, and your own time on every project. See net margin in mono, weekly.

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The problem

Where this usually breaks.

Boutique agency P&L looks different from solo freelance, and the differences are exactly where money quietly leaks:

  1. The unowned project.Once a subcontractor is doing most of the hands-on work, the founder stops tracking their own time on the project. That management time is usually 30–40% of what the project actually consumes — and it's the time that prices the project below cost.
  2. Markup misalignment.Many studios bill the client “cost + 30%” on subcontracted work without realising the “cost” should include their own oversight time. The actual margin on the engagement is half what the markup implies.
  3. The retainer drift. A monthly retainer that started at 15 hours/month has, two years later, grown to 28. The price never moved. The effective rate halved silently.

Project page: gross revenue, total cost (subcontractor + your time), net margin — three numbers, mono.

What Ensaria does about it

Every project has three numbers visible at the top: gross revenue, total cost (subcontractor + your time × blended rate), and net margin. Each updates as you log time or paste in a subcontractor invoice. Sunday Review surfaces margin-by-project for the month — at a glance, the engagements that pay vs the ones that drain.

In the product

Where this shows up.

A few other surfaces in Ensaria where the same idea lives — none of these are settings you opt into; they're how the product behaves by default.

Sunday Review in mono — earned, billable share, margin per project, capacity next week.

Studio-level pace toward target lives in the top bar like solo-freelance — same mental model.

A retainer project tracks hours-used vs hours-included; subcontractor invoices land as expenses.

Today holds the studio founder's day with calm blocks; subcontractors plan their own week in their own tools.

Common questions

Ensaria is solo-first. Why does it work for a 1–3 person agency?

The agencies that work in Ensaria are run by a founder who's the bottleneck — the salesperson, project lead, and senior craftsperson, with one or two subcontractors. The whole P&L still flows through one person's brain. A 6+ person team needs a different tool with seats, roles, and shared scheduling.

How do I track subcontractor cost against a project?

Subcontractor invoices land as expenses on the project. The project page shows your net margin: client revenue minus subcontractor cost minus your own tracked time × your blended rate. The Sunday Review surfaces this per project.

Is there team scheduling?

No. The product schedules your blocks, not your team's. The founder plans the founder's week in Ensaria (where the money math lives), and the subcontractors plan their own week in their own tools.

Do you offer per-seat pricing for the studio team?

No. The Pro plan is one calm price for the founder's account. Subcontractors operate in their own tools.

Related

Read further.

Project budgets

Per-project burn + margin.

Cash flow

Payment lag per client.

Retainer

The pricing shape most studios run on.

Pricing

No per-seat creep.

Free for one active project. No card.

Pro unlocks unlimited projects, subcontractor cost tracking, the Stripe integration, and recurring retainer scheduling.

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