Insighty + Productive.io:
delivery plus deeper financial ops
Productive.io handles agency projects and basic profitability. Insighty handles the broader financial operations — multi-stream revenue, contract renewals, domain tracking, and pipeline forecasting.
Productive.io
Agency project & profitability
Insighty
Client management, contracts & financial ops
Productive.io
Agency project management platform
An agency-focused project management and profitability platform. Productive.io gives agency teams a unified place for project management, time tracking, invoicing, and basic financial reporting.
Best for
- Agency project and profitability management
- Time tracking and billable rate management
- Resource planning and scheduling
- Client invoicing and financial reporting
Insighty
Agency Intelligence Platform
The financial and operational intelligence layer agencies need alongside their PM tools. Connects clients, contracts, retainers, hosting, domains, invoices, and pipeline into one unified revenue view.
Best for
- Agency owners and operations managers
- Revenue planning and invoice tracking
- Retainer and contract management
- Financial forecasting and pipeline
Productive.io is exceptional at agency project management
This is not a "switch away from Productive.io" argument. Productive.io is one of the most focused agency PM tools available. Teams value its all-in-one approach to projects and profitability.
Project budgeting and basic profitability
Project budgeting and basic profitability
Time tracking with billable rates
Time tracking with billable rates
Invoicing and financial reporting
Invoicing and financial reporting
Resource planning and scheduling
Resource planning and scheduling
Client portal and collaboration
Client portal and collaboration
Built specifically for agencies
Built specifically for agencies
The questions Productive.io cannot answer for agency owners
Productive.io knows a great deal about project-level financials. It knows less about the full financial picture across all contract types and revenue streams.
"Which hosting and domain renewals are due this quarter?"
Productive.io doesn't track infrastructure contracts or domain expirations.
"What is the probability-weighted pipeline value feeding into next month's revenue?"
Productive.io focuses on active projects. Sales pipeline and forecast weighting aren't its core model.
"Which retainer clients are consuming more hours than their contract allows?"
Maintenance contract scope management is limited to what's inside active projects.
"What does total committed revenue look like across all contract types?"
Productive.io provides project-level financials but not a unified multi-stream revenue matrix.
What each tool handles
Different tools, different jobs. The overlap is minimal by design.
Capability
Productive.io
Insighty
Task & project management
✓
—
Profitability tracking
✓
✓
Time tracking
✓
✓
Invoicing
✓
✓
Maintenance contract billing
~
✓
Revenue planning (multi-stream)
~
✓
"This Month" invoice view
—
✓
Hosting & domain renewal tracking
—
✓
Sales pipeline & probability forecast
—
✓
Client financial summary (all streams)
~
✓
Invoice automation (recurring)
~
✓
Resource capacity & utilisation
✓
✓
Use Productive.io for projects. Use Insighty for the full financial picture.
Productive.io is a strong agency PM tool. Insighty adds the revenue intelligence layer — hosting, domain tracking, multi-stream contracts, and pipeline — that project-level financials don't cover.