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Insights and tips on productivity, time tracking, and building better work habits.
macgill davis · October 5, 2026
Agency Over-Servicing: How to See It Before the Client Renews (2026)
Agency over-servicing quietly eats retainer margin — hours delivered beyond scope that nobody tracked. How to measure it, where it hides, and how to turn it into a re-scoping conversation.
macgill davis · October 5, 2026
How to Track Retainer Burn in an Agency (2026)
How to track retainer burn in an agency: calculate burn rate by client and department, spot over-servicing before the renewal, and fix the timesheet data the reports depend on.
macgill davis · October 5, 2026
Asana for Agencies: Time Tracking, Burn Reports, and Retainer Profitability (2026)
Asana manages agency work but can't tell you which retainers are profitable. How agencies running Asana get automatic time capture, department burn reports, and client margin without switching PM tools.
macgill davis · October 5, 2026
How to Know if a Fixed-Fee Client Is Profitable (2026)
A fixed-fee client is profitable when real delivery hours at loaded cost rates leave margin under the fee. Here's the 15-minute test, the data you need, and what to do about the clients that fail it.
macgill davis · October 5, 2026
Monthly Burn Report by Department: The Template Agencies Actually Use (2026)
How to build a monthly burn report by department: hours vs scoped hours per team, cost at loaded rates, over-servicing flags, and the cadence that catches margin leaks mid-month.
macgill davis · August 11, 2026
Agency Time Tracking for Client Work: A Practical Guide (2026)
See where agency hours actually go across client engagements. Covers automatic time tracking, billable vs non-billable tagging, client profitability, and pricing.
dhruvir zala · June 15, 2026
Where Agency Time Actually Goes: Client vs Internal
Real tracking data from thousands of professionals reveals agencies spend ~18% of every week on coordination before a single deliverable gets done.
dhruvir zala · June 9, 2026
How Much Time Agencies Spend in Meetings (Real Data)
How much time do agencies spend in meetings? Real Rize data: 35 min/day, 1.74 hrs/week, and Teams users run 87% longer than Zoom.
dhruvir zala · June 3, 2026
The 50 Most Used Apps by Digital Marketing Agencies
What tools do agencies actually use? We analyzed real tracking data from agency teams on Rize to rank the 50 most-used apps by hours, users, and category.
jonathan wu · May 27, 2026
5 Decisions That Separate Profitable Agencies from the Rest
Five decisions agency owners should make about automatic time tracking to recover 20% more billable time and hit 98% billing accuracy.
macgill davis · May 19, 2026
Agency Profitability Tracking: The Complete Guide (2026)
How to track agency profitability with automatic time capture, per-client margin dashboards, and utilization benchmarks, plus a tool comparison.
macgill davis · April 13, 2026
Agent Profitability Tracking: How to Measure ROI When AI Does the Work
Your team is a mix of humans and AI agents. Here's how to track profitability across both — and why your current tools can't.
macgill davis · April 9, 2026
The Micro Agency Playbook (2026)
How 2-to-5 person micro agencies beat traditional agencies on margins, pricing, and delivery when AI handles 80% of the execution work.
dmitri leonov · April 2, 2026
The Hidden Time Leak Costing Agencies 30% of Their Day
Agencies lose a third of their workweek to email. Learn how email overload drains productivity and how automatic triage helps your team reclaim focus.
macgill davis · March 30, 2026
AI Is Breaking Agencies — Here's What Comes Next
Tessa Rolfe on how AI is reshaping agency operations, pricing models, and team structure, and what agency owners must do now to stay competitive.
macgill davis · March 17, 2026
Invoicing-Ready Time Tracking Data for Teams
Invoicing-ready time data for teams means billable hours are already client-tagged and export-ready. Rize produces it automatically with AI time tracking.
macgill davis · February 25, 2026
Best Automated Capture for Agencies Using ClickUp
Step-by-step guide for agencies to replace manual time logging with automated capture using ClickUp and Rize. Covers workflow audits and integrations.
macgill davis · October 31, 2025
ClickUp for Accounting Firms: Dos and Don’ts
Accounting firms manage hundreds of clients and thousands of tasks monthly. ClickUp can streamline workflows if implemented properly.
macgill davis · October 2, 2025
Powering Agency Growth with Data-Driven Time Tracking
How automated time tracking replaces guesswork with objective data, helping agency owners tackle scope creep and make data-driven resource decisions.
macgill davis · September 18, 2025
Solving Scope Creep and Underbilling with Rize
How automated time tracking helps agencies combat scope creep and underbilling. Includes tool comparison, profitability formulas, and case study metrics.
macgill davis · August 5, 2025
Rethinking Timesheets: Automated Tracking for Agencies
How automating time tracking can improve your creative agency's profitability and free your team from outdated, manual timesheets.