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An agency suite, or one Coding Cords workspace

Productive and Teamwork.com plan an agency's projects, time and budgets. Coding Cords does the projects and the time too, then carries on into mail, chat, phones, documents, signing and the invoice, in one workspace on one bill.

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Prices and features last checked 14 October 2026. Products change; tell us if something is out of date.

Choose Coding Cords if

Your agency runs on more than projects: client mail, chat, calls, documents, proposals, signing and invoices too. You want one login, one bill and AI that can see the work.

Stay with an agency suite if

You plan against project budgets or retainers, which we don't have, or you need custom statuses and fields on every project. Or you need apps for phones★ or offline work★.

Use both if

Keep the suite for budgets and move the rest across first: mail, chat, documents and signing. Keep your accounting tool either way. Coding Cords sends invoices, and QuickBooks or Xero keeps the books.

We run Coding Cords on Coding Cords: our own mail, projects, sales and invoices live in it.

Side by side

What each suite lists, and where it lives in Coding Cords

Rival facts are what each vendor's own page says, with the day we read it. Where a part of ours isn't built yet, it carries a star.

Productive and Teamwork.comCoding Cords

Projects, time and budgets

Budgets and capacity (Productive)Essential lists budgeting and resource planning. Professional adds recurring budgets.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceNo project budgets or retainers. Workload shows each person's planned hours against a 40-hour week, less approved time off, with overdue and in-progress counts. The 40 hours are the same for everyone.
Budgets and capacity (Teamwork.com)Accelerate lists time budgets and retainers, and workload and live capacity planning.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceHours logged, billable share and billable value show by project, client or person, but nothing sets a budget to measure them against.
Timeline (Teamwork.com)The Free plan lists Gantt views.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceA timeline with a row for each person. Drag a task onto someone and it gets dates and an owner in one move. A deadline you typed never moves when you drag, and the bar turns red if it runs past. It draws no dependency arrows or critical path.
Time and invoicing (Productive)Essential lists time tracking. Professional lists HRIS and invoicing integrations.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceYour calendar is the timesheet: a task you plan and work becomes recorded time, with no timer to start. Team › Time lists each client's unbilled hours, you check the preview, and a draft invoice opens. Billed hours are locked to their invoice. Company plan.
Time and invoicing (Teamwork.com)Basics lists billable time tracking and reporting. Accelerate lists client invoicing from logged time.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceEach project gets a client, an hourly rate and a currency, and any single entry can be switched billable or not. Invoices carry tax, can repeat, and are corrected with credit notes. Clients pay by bank transfer, with a QR code on the invoice. Card payments are on the way.★

Beside the suite

Mail on your own domainNeither pricing page lists mailboxes. Teamwork Desk, a separate product priced per agent, syncs an inbox with Outlook or Gmail for email tickets.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceMailboxes on your domains, shared mailboxes, server-side rules, and Apple Mail or Outlook through app passwords. A message becomes a task in one step.
ChatNeither pricing page lists a team chat.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceChannels and threads, voice messages with transcripts, and any message turned into a task. A client's message from the portal arrives in a channel.
Phone numbers and callsNeither pricing page lists phone numbers or calls.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceNumbers, outbound calls and texts. Voicemail and call recording are on the way.★
Documents and spreadsheetsNeither pricing page lists a document or spreadsheet editor.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceWord documents on real A4 or Letter pages that several people edit at once, and that open and save back as .docx. Spreadsheets with formulas and sheet tabs that open and save back as .xlsx. PDFs marked up, filled in and signed in place.
Proposals and signingNeither pricing page lists e-signature.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceProposals with a link the client opens. Signers need no account: they confirm by emailed code and get a signed PDF with a certificate. Company plan.
Client portalProductive's plan list has no client portal. Teamwork lists a customer portal on Desk, its separate help desk product.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceA portal for each project with the parts you choose: progress, folders, meetings, messages and forms. One list shows what needs the client, such as an invoice to pay or a document to sign. Clients read and download; they can't upload files.
PasswordsA password manager of its ownA Vault encrypted in your browser, with shared collections.
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Why people switch

What the day looks like with separate tools

Three moments most agencies on a project suite will recognise.

Hours that never reach the invoice

The time is logged in one tool, the rate lives in another and the invoice is typed in a third. In Coding Cords the calendar block is the time, the project holds its client and rate, and Team › Time lists who is ready to bill, with a draft invoice one step away.

A won deal that starts over

The proposal is a PDF, the signature comes through another service and someone sets up the project by hand. Here the proposal goes out as a link, the client signs, and the won deal becomes a project in the same workspace.

Where are we?

The client emails for an update and someone writes one from memory. In the portal the client sees the project's steps as Planned, Under way or Done, answers a proposal, and writes to your team in a channel you already read.

The whole cost

What it costs, in money and in time

Money is one part of the cost. The other is the time it takes to run each tool: a login, a bill and an admin area apiece. The two suites are priced here for the plans that list invoicing.

Dollars a month, list prices, billed yearly
5 people12 people
Productive Professional, $24 a person a month, billed yearlyChecked 14 Oct 2026 · source$120$288
Teamwork.com Accelerate, $24.99 a person a month, billed yearly, at least 5 peopleChecked 14 Oct 2026 · source$124.95$299.88
Coding Cords Company, billed yearlyOur pricing$325$668

The suites cost less than a Coding Cords plan, because they cover less. They don't list mail, chat, phones, documents or signing, so those are separate bills on top. The stack comparison prices them.

Running it

Adding a person (Productive)
Their guideFrom Settings › Users or the invite menu, you pick a type: employees and contractors take a paid seat, clients are free.Their guide, checked 14 Oct 2026 · source
Coding CordsOne form in Settings › Access: their email and a role. The seat goes on the bill at the same moment. Their mailbox can be made in the same step.
Adding a person (Teamwork.com)
Their guideFrom the People tab, you set a user type and project access for each person, and their rates and permissions on the profile.Their guide, checked 14 Oct 2026 · source
Coding CordsSwitch whole parts of the workspace on or off for the person in the same place. Company plan.
Removing a person (Productive)
Their guideYou deactivate them from their profile and reassign their open work. Deactivating doesn't reduce paid seats, so the seat count is changed separately.Their guide, checked 14 Oct 2026 · source
Coding CordsRemove them once. They're signed out everywhere and the seat comes off the bill.
Changing seats (Teamwork.com)
Their guideOnly site admins in the owner company manage the subscription. Seats are added from the Plan management tab, and lowering the count below your active users moves some of them to collaborators.Their guide, checked 14 Oct 2026 · source
Coding CordsOne bill in Settings › Billing, with AI spend shown for each person.
The tools beside the suite
Their guideMail, chat, phones and signing come from other vendors, each with its own login, bill and admin area.
Coding CordsThey're part of the same workspace, with the same sign-in and the same bill.

AI

Cord is built in, and it knows the work

Both suites sell AI as part of their plans. Cord is part of the workspace, so it sees the same mail, projects, time and invoices you do.

Productive and Teamwork.comCoding Cords

AI

ProductiveAI Assistant is listed from Essential. Notetaker, which joins calls and turns action items into tasks, is an add-on with no price on the page.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceCord is built in and included for every person, with more from $8 a person a month. It acts on the workspace: ask it to draft an invoice from a client's unbilled hours and a draft appears. Anything that can't be undone waits for your click.
Teamwork.comAI is included in all paid plans for an introductory period. Usage-based AI credits launch in November 2026.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceEach person's allowance is in dollars, and admins see spend by day, feature, person and model. They can cap it or switch off each place AI works. Unused AI doesn't carry over, and nothing is prepaid.
Meeting notesProductive sells Notetaker as an add-on. Teamwork's pricing page doesn't list meeting notes.Checked 14 Oct 2026 · sourceMeetings are transcribed live in English and leave notes, decisions and suggested tasks. Anyone can switch off transcription of their own voice, and guests have to agree.

Your own AI tools can work in it too

Any AI tool that supports MCP, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Antigravity, can work in your company through a personal key, with your permissions and an audit trail. Tasks, time, files, CRM, invoices and mail search are all reachable that way. The Vault is left out on purpose.

Fair to say

When an agency suite fits better

A suite is the better choice for some agencies, and we'd rather say so here.

  • You plan against budgets and retainers. Both suites list them. Coding Cords has none: it reports hours and billable value, not how much of a budget is left.
  • You need profit by project. We total hours and billable value by project, client and person, and don't count your costs against them.
  • You plan capacity in detail. Our Workload is a fixed 40-hour week for everyone, with approved time off taken out.
  • You draw project dependencies. Our timeline has no arrows or critical path, and there are no estimates or story points.
  • Your projects need custom statuses or fields. Ours have four fixed stages and one assignee per task.
  • You need apps from the App Store or Google Play★ or to work offline★. Today Coding Cords runs in the browser, on phones too.
  • You need single sign-on★ or a vendor with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification of its own. We don't hold either yet.
  • You only pay for a project tool. A suite alone costs less than a Coding Cords plan.

Moving over

How the move works

You can move one part at a time and keep the suite running until you're ready.

  1. Bring your mail

    Move each mailbox in from any IMAP provider or from an mbox file. Your domain stays yours: you point its DNS records at Coding Cords.

  2. Bring your clients

    Import people and organisations from a CSV or vCard file. A billable project points at a client from the CRM, so the clients come before the projects.

  3. Move the live projects

    Coding Cords has no task import, so start with the projects that are running and recreate their tasks by hand. Finished projects can stay where they are.

  4. Set the rates

    Give each billable project its client, hourly rate and currency in its settings. From then on, time worked on the calendar is ready to bill.

  5. Leave whenever you want

    Mail exports as mbox, documents as PDF or DOCX, and time entries, contacts, invoices and form responses as CSV. If a plan ends, the company turns read-only, so people can still read and export, and the data is kept for 30 days.

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Questions

Questions people ask

Where do the prices come from?

Each one is a list price we read on the vendor's own pricing page on 14 October 2026, billed yearly. Every line links to its page. Your own contract may differ.

Why Professional and Accelerate?

They are the plans that list invoicing. Productive's Professional lists invoicing integrations and recurring budgets, and Teamwork's Accelerate lists client invoicing from logged time, budgets and retainers. Coding Cords is on the Company plan, which includes time billing and proposals.

The suites cost less. Why?

On their own they do, because they cover less. The prices above count only what each suite covers. Mail, chat, phones, documents and signing come from other vendors, and the stack comparison prices those.

Productive's page shows two prices for Essential. Which did you use?

We left Essential out, because its monthly and yearly figures disagree on the page. For Professional the page states $24 a month billed yearly, and we use that.

Doesn't Teamwork have its own chat?

Teamwork publishes a support guide for a Chat product, but its pricing page lists no team chat, so we didn't count it. Its Desk product, priced separately, has live chat for your customers.

Is there a timer?

Start on a task books the next 90 minutes on your calendar, stopping short of your next meeting, and the time is recorded as it passes. You can also select hours on the calendar and type the task and length.

Can clients pay an invoice online?

Not by card yet. An invoice has its own page with bank details and a payment QR code, and you record the payment when it arrives.

Can the whole team try it first?

Yes. The trial is 14 days of the Company plan for up to 10 people, with no card. Phone numbers and Outreach are off during the trial.

Try it on one client

Start with mail and one live project, then bring the rest over when you're ready.

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★ On our roadmap. Released once it's tested.