// By industry

Help creative teams protect focus and manage capacity

See how work is distributed across creative teams, where the day becomes fragmented, and which pods may need support.

Creative work doesn't follow a standard workday. Design teams work in focus blocks interrupted by revisions, Social moves between rapid production and approval cycles, Accounts juggles client calls with deep project time. Momentum shows each pod's actual rhythm — where interruptions fragment focus, how workload distributes, and which teams need support — with department rules that make sense for creative work.

You focus on:Billable hours→Utilization→Scope→Margin

// Business problem

Know which client work is consuming your team's time

01 — Revision churn

Design and production cycles are unpredictable. Without visibility into when focus breaks, studios can't tell if delays are process issues or just the nature of creative work.

02 — Fragmented creative time

Designers, writers, and producers lose focus to meetings, approvals, and context-switching. Small interruptions compound — an hour lost to churn across a team becomes margin lost.

03 — Uneven workload

Some pods are overloaded while others have capacity, but the studio doesn't see it until delivery deadlines slip or burnout becomes visible.

// Business outcome

Momentum connects employee activity to departments, projects and productivity rules so agency leaders can see where billable capacity is going.

+18%

Billable utilization

Client

Level reporting

Margin

Protected

Illustrative outcome, modeled from typical rollouts — not a specific customer result. See real customer results →

// How Momentum solves it

How it works

Departments→App rules→Timeline→Dashboard

// Product details

How this plays out for agencies

Creative work rarely follows one standard workday

Design pods work in focus blocks interrupted by revisions and feedback. Social teams alternate between rapid content production and client approval cycles. Account teams juggle client calls with deep project delivery time. Each pod's actual rhythm is invisible until things slip — revision cycles take longer than expected, creative time evaporates into meetings and slack, and you don't see the overload until deadlines crunch. Department rules in Momentum surface these patterns so leaders can see what's really happening in each pod.

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No shared picture

Department rules that understand studio work

Momentum's Departments map to your pods — Design, Copy, Social, Accounts, Production — and each carries its own app productivity rules on top of the Global App Rules baseline. Figma and the Adobe suite are Productive for Design; Instagram is Productive for Social and Non-Productive for Finance. The agent captures the actual hours, and the Timeline shows each person's day as a Time Summary of Productive, Non-Productive, and Unmarked time plus per-app usage — including input activity counts per app (never keystroke content) when you need to understand where effort concentrated.

Live timeline

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Patterns that point to workflow issues

A month in, the Workforce Dashboard shows pod-level trends. Design's focus blocks shortened during a revision-heavy week — pod lead reviews the handoffs and feedback loops, spots a bottleneck, and institutes parallel approval tracks. Social's after-hours activity spiked before a product launch — you see exactly when and which team members, so you can adjust next sprint's forecast. Accounts' utilization dipped across two regions — you check the time distribution and see where the over-and under-loaded account teams are, and rebalance capacity. These patterns let you make one change, measure the next week, and keep what actually moves focus and workload.

+30 days

// After the 30-day baseline

Momentum never asks you to judge on day one. Collect a month of Timeline data, then set targets from your own expected-vs-actual trend — and watch it move.

+30d

baseline → lift

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Focus continuity by pod (avg)72% of focus blocks intact

After-hours activity trend8% above baseline, by pod

Workload distribution (spread)14% variance Design vs Social

Billable share of day68% across studio

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// Metrics to watch

The numbers that tell you it's working

Every one of these lives on the Momentum Workforce Dashboard — no exports, no spreadsheets. Set your workday, expected desk hours, and target productive hours in General settings, and watch the expected-vs-actual gap close week over week.

KPIs update as agents report in

Expected-vs-actual trend per department

Drill from any number into an individual Timeline

// The playbook

From install to insight in four moves

A proven rollout sequence using real Momentum modules — agents, machine approval, department app rules, and the dashboard.

01 — Mirror your pods as departments

Create Departments for Design, Copy, Social, Accounts, and Production, and assign every member. Department analytics then double as pod-level utilization views.

02 — Classify the studio toolchain

Set Global App Rules for the shared stack, then override per department — creative suites Productive for Design, social platforms Productive only for Social, admin tools where they belong.

03 — Set billable-day expectations

In General settings, define expected desk hours and target productive hours that reflect a realistic billable day, plus productivity thresholds so the dashboard flags drift automatically.

04 — Review trends with pod leads weekly

Scan focus continuity, after-hours patterns, and workload distribution by pod each Monday. Identify one workflow issue — revision bottleneck, meeting overload, uneven capacity — and make a targeted change. Compare the following week's trends to see if it moved the line.

// How Momentum helps

A clearer picture for agencies

Momentum brings the signals that matter into one fair, real-time view — so leaders can act on evidence and teams can trust the numbers.

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72% of focus blocks intact

Focus continuity by pod (avg)

8% above baseline, by pod

After-hours activity trend

14% variance Design vs Social

Workload distribution (spread)

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82%

prod. score

Time by client and project

Billable vs non-billable focus

Utilization and capacity views

Client-ready exportable reports

Illustrative dashboard mockup — figures are not from a specific customer.

// Who is this for

Built for agencies with...

10–50 people

Need basic utilization visibility.

50–300 people

Need department-level capacity and productivity management.

300+ people

Need enterprise governance and workforce intelligence.

// Questions

Questions Agencies usually ask

The same app is work for one team and a distraction for another — can Momentum handle that?+

That's exactly what department-level app rules are for. A department override beats the Global App Rule, so Instagram counts as Productive for your Social pod and Non-Productive everywhere else.

Can we understand effort, not just hours?+

Momentum measures aggregate input activity counts alongside app usage and active/idle time. It does not record the content of keystrokes. That count, per app, is enough to distinguish an intense production day from a window left open.

How do freelancer machines get handled?+

Freelancer devices install the agent and wait in the Machines queue as Pending. Approve them for the engagement and remotely uninstall or disable login when the contract ends.

Will creatives accept this?+

Each person sees their own Timeline and productivity score — the same data their lead sees about them. Transparent, department-fair rules are what make studio rollouts stick.

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