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Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Edmonton

An Edmonton agency's client list runs from a university research spinout to a public-sector department to an industrial supplier, three accounts that each measure "done" differently.

Three clients, three different definitions of finished

Edmonton's economy is genuinely mixed, university-adjacent research and AI spinouts, provincial government departments, and an industrial and processing base along the corridor outside the city, and an Edmonton agency's client list tends to reflect all three. A research spinout wants a campaign that reads as credible to funders. A government department wants a process that can be explained to someone who wasn't in the room. An industrial supplier wants a straightforward result on budget. The same small team ends up adapting its whole approach three times over.

The part that doesn't change client to client is the retainer math. A call here, a round of amends there, a late brief change: those hours are real regardless of which account they belong to, and they're just as easy to under-log whichever client it was for. Rent and office costs run lower in Edmonton than Calgary or Toronto, which lets a smaller team carry a wider client mix, but a wider mix also means more places for an unlogged hour to hide.

ShipSprint gives each client its own board with its own WIP limits, so exploratory research-adjacent work can be modeled honestly on one board while a date-driven industrial client runs a tighter process on another, all under the same subscription and rolling up into one view of real capacity.

5 secto log time against a client's task, right after finishing it
₹599per user per month on Business, annual billing available
5users and 2 projects free, permanently, on the Free plan
14days of full Business access to trial, no card needed
Research pace, public-sector pace, industrial pace

What an Edmonton agency actually needs

A board per client account

Per-column WIP limits keep one demanding client from quietly eating the whole team's capacity while a quieter retainer goes unattended.

Time that gets logged, not guessed

Logging time takes about five seconds and sits right next to the task, so what a client actually cost in hours is a real number, not a reconstruction.

A triage inbox for new briefs

Incoming requests land in a shared inbox instead of one account manager's messages, whichever of the three kinds of client sent it.

Campaign calendars and launch checklists

Marketing gets its own board vocabulary, campaigns and content calendars, adaptable enough for a research funder pitch or an industrial launch alike.

Not a CRM, and we won't pretend it is

ShipSprint tracks delivery and capacity, not pipeline or contacts. Client work lives here; the client relationship still lives wherever it already does.

Spread across a wide metro area

Between the university district, government offices downtown and industrial sites well outside the city core, an Edmonton agency's own team and its clients are rarely all in the same room. A card's position on the board is the status without anyone typing an update, and a one-tap blocker flag pulls in whoever can actually unblock it with context attached.

Capacity accounts for approved leave, and support is based in India, roughly half a day removed from Mountain time, worth saying plainly. The product is built around that gap: forecasts and the weekly digest generate themselves, and a blocker routes to the right teammate without a live call being the only option.

FAQ

Questions from Edmonton agencies

Yes. Because boards aren't locked to a fixed sprint structure, exploratory or grant-adjacent work can be modeled honestly on one board while a date-driven industrial account runs a tighter process on another, both under the same subscription.

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