Free White Paper

The Stitched-Together
Stack.

The hidden cost of running an agency across disconnected tools — and why the reconciliation gap between your PM tool and your finance package is costing you more than the tools themselves.

Every agency we talk to has a spreadsheet. Not as a tool of choice — as a necessity. It sits between the PM tool (where the work lives) and the finance package (where the money lives), and someone heroic in finance rebuilds it every month to make the two worlds agree.

The real cost isn't the admin hours. It's the decisions made on data that is always one re-key behind reality — and the margin that disappears in that gap. This white paper maps the true cost of tool sprawl and shows what changes when you close the reconciliation gap for good.

What's inside

• The true cost of tool sprawl — in hours, in errors and in the commercial decisions made on stale data
• The reconciliation gap: what gets lost each month between your project tool and your finance system
• Why "integrations" between point tools don't solve the problem — and what a genuine single system of record actually changes
• A framework for auditing your own stack and identifying where the commercial blind spots are hiding

Published by Chase Software Solutions Ltd · 25 years of agency management expertise · Trusted by teams inside WPP Media and Miroma Group · PDF