For contract, freelance & lean teams

One project-shaped home for how freelance teams actually work

Tasks, chat, notes, files, and approvals, together in one project. Clance replaces the PM tool, the WhatsApp group, the shared Doc, and the Slack workspace you've stitched together to make it work.

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Mobile App Redesign4 members

Tasks

#9Kickoff call notesPS
#12Fix onboarding empty stateSK
#14Wire up push notificationsAM
#15Redesign settings page

Chat

Pinned: ship date moved to Friday

Sam pushed the fix, tagged #12

Priya approved — nice work.

The problem

Your project already has five owners

Tasks live in one app. Approvals happen over text. Files get buried three DMs deep. By the time the work is done, nobody agrees on what actually happened.

Scattered across tools

A tracker for tasks, a group chat for decisions, a Doc for notes, a Drive folder for files. None of them agree with each other.

No one owns approval

Work gets marked “done” in a group chat, and three people find out three different ways — if they find out at all.

Files get lost in DMs

The file you need is in a thread from six weeks ago, if you can even remember who sent it.

Tasks & approvals

A task system built for real accountability

  • Unlimited nested subtasks — no separate “milestone” object to maintain
  • Multiple assignees per task; anyone assigned can submit it
  • Any manager can approve — first approval stands, no waiting on a hierarchy
  • Rejected work bounces back to in-progress with a comment, not a vague DM
UnassignedPendingSubmittedApproved
#14Wire up push notifications
#14.1Register device tokens
#14.2Handle notification taps
Pinned as decision: ship date moved to Friday
SK

Sam — pushed the fix, tagged #12 Fix onboarding empty state

PS

Priya — approved, nice work.

Chat

One messaging engine for group chat, DMs, and task comments

  • Threads, replies, reactions, and @mentions that actually notify
  • Tag a task in a message and it renders as a live preview, not plain text
  • Pin any message as a decision — it's logged, not lost in scroll
Files

Files don't need their own app

  • No separate upload flow, no permission matrix — attachments live on the task or chat they belong to
  • Visibility inherits automatically from who's already in that thread
  • “All Files” pulls every attachment you personally have access to onto one screen
All Files

onboarding-flow-v2.fig

from #12 Fix onboarding empty state

brand-guidelines.pdf

from Group chat

call-recording-jun24.m4a

from #9 Kickoff call notes

And the rest

Everything else your project needs

Role-aware dashboards

Workers see what's next and what needs revision. Managers see what's blocked, overdue, and awaiting approval. Same project, different glance.

An AI assistant that knows its place — coming soon

Read-only Q&A over your real project data, plus manager-only task drafts that need a human to confirm. It will never auto-create.

Meetings, logged where the work happens

Log a meeting with your own call link, notes, and time — tied back to a task, searchable in the activity feed.

Notifications that reach you

In-app, push, and email, with PWA support — so push works without a native app.

Search that respects access

One search across tasks, chat, and files — scoped to what you can already see, nothing more.

An activity log underneath it all

Every approval, pin, and invite recorded automatically, so nobody has to ask “wait, what happened here?”

Getting started

Up and running in three steps

01

Create a project

It's the only top-level thing you make. People, tasks, chat, notes, and files all live inside it.

02

Invite by email

No account yet? Accepting the invite creates one automatically — no gate, no setup wizard before they can start working.

03

Work happens here

Assign tasks, chat about them, attach files, and approve — all without leaving the project.

Give your project one home, instead of five apps

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