For small consultancies and studios
A firm of five, run like a business of one
Ambital is business management software for small professional firms: a founder plus associates, sub-contractors or a partner. Everyone on a full seat, one shared pipeline, schedule and set of timesheets, each person's rate in the margin, and a client portal with your name on it.
Teams · £150/month excl. VAT for up to 5 people
Sound familiar?
When the second person arrives, the spreadsheets multiply
“I can't see what my associate is working on.”
One schedule and one set of timesheets for the firm, with who's at which client on which day.
Team and permissions →“I don't know if that project made money once I paid them.”
Each person's cost rate feeds the project's margin, so profit is after the people who did the work.
Costs and margins →“Every sub-contractor sees everything or nothing.”
Access is set per person and per project. A contractor sees their projects and nothing of the firm's finances.
Team and permissions →What changes
What changes when a second person joins
You're not becoming an agency. Teams is everything in Business Pro, with room for the people you now work with.
| What changes | On your ownBusiness Pro · £79 | A small teamTeams · £150 |
|---|---|---|
| People with a full login | 1 | Up to 5 |
| Free guest seats | 5, for sub-contractors and other firms' people | 10, including clients' teams |
| Roles and access | Just you | Owner, admin, team or contractor, set per project |
| Rates in the margin | Your rate | Each person's cost and day rate, effective-dated |
| Timesheets | Yours | Each person submits; an admin approves |
| Ask Ambi | 3M tokens a month | 5M tokens a month, shared |
| Connected email accounts | 10 | 15 across the team |
What you'll use
One firm, not five private spreadsheets
Everyone on a real seat, every rate in the margin
Give an associate a proper login, not a guest pass. Their rate feeds each project's margin, their hours land in the same timesheets, and what they can see is set per person and per project.
- Roles and per-project permissionsTeams
- Per-person cost rates, effective-datedEvery plan
One schedule, one set of timesheets
Who's at which client on which day, meetings included, and where there's room for the next engagement. Hours are submitted each week and approved by an admin before they're invoiced.
- Schedule and resourcing across the team
- Timesheet approvalTeams
- Personal tasks stay private to each login
A client portal with the firm's name on it
Status updates, approvals, files and invoices under your brand. Whoever on the team is closest to the work can publish the update; clients see the firm, not the tool.
- White-label portal for the whole team
- Approvals with versions, compare and pinned comments
Forecast the firm, and run more than one company
Booked work across everyone's projects, the pipeline the team is chasing, and scenarios for hiring a fourth person, or not. Two trading entities or a second brand sit under one subscription with the same people and portfolio reporting.
- Forecast scenarios with team cost rates
- Multiple organisations, seats pooled across them
A week in Ambital
Three people, six clients, one Friday invoice run
- MondayThe team's weekWho's where, what's due, and which project is short of hours.
- TuesdayA new associateInvited, given two projects and a cost rate. Nothing else is visible to them.
- WednesdayStatus updatesEach project lead publishes theirs; the client sees the firm's name.
- ThursdayPipeline reviewOne pipeline for the firm, with the cost of each pitch.
- FridayApprove and invoiceTimesheets approved, invoices raised as one firm and synced.
Client names are fictional, from Ambital's demo organisation.
The plan
One price for the team, not per seat
Teams is £150 a month for up to 5 people on full seats. No per-seat maths. Need more? Talk to us.
Still mostly on your own, with the odd associate? Business Pro at £79 gives you 5 free guest seats instead. For independents →
Small team questions
Straight answers
- Is Ambital agency software?
- No. It's built for a firm of up to five people: a founder with associates, not a department with account managers.
- Can a sub-contractor see only their own projects?
- Yes. Access is set per person and per project, and a contractor role sees nothing of the firm's finances.
- What if we grow past five?
- Talk to us. There's no per-seat price, and larger teams are set up by arrangement.
- Can each person connect their own email?
- Yes. Up to 15 accounts across the team, Google or Microsoft 365, and each person's mail stays their own.
- Which plan do we need?
- Teams, at £150 a month for up to 5 people. If it's mostly you with the odd associate, Business Pro at £79 gives you free guest seats instead. Prices exclude VAT.
Be first in when we launch
Ambital is in private beta. Apply to test and you'll get in first, with free months at launch for committed testers.
Free plan · No card required · Built in the UK