Q1 Web Overhaul
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- Budget
- $62,500
- Timeline
- 8 Weeks
Stop Working For Free.
Agencies lose an average of $8,200/month to scope creep they never charge for. Parallel connects your SOW, your Linear board, and your invoices — so every hour your team works is an hour your client has already paid for.
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The problem
Agency Math Is Broken.
You estimated 20 hours. Your team spent 40. The client paid for 20. That gap isn't bad luck — it's a broken system. Here's exactly where your margin is bleeding out:
THE TRAP01
The "Quick Favor" Trap
Requests arrive via Slack, email, and Zoom. Because it feels too tedious to draft a formal change order for a 2-hour task, your team just does it for free.
Slack Request
"Can we add login?"
+6h (~$600 Unpaid)
Email
"Change the colors quickly"
+3h (~$300 Unpaid)
BLIND SPOT02
The Disconnect
Your team lives in Linear, not in your SOW. They build whatever tickets are dragged into the current sprint, whether the client has officially paid for that feature or not.
Budget Cap
CASH FLOW03
The Approval Bottleneck
The work is finished, but the invoice is delayed because the client's "final approval" is buried somewhere in a 40-message email thread. Your cash flow stalls.
Work DonePaid
JAN 15
MAR 15
THE TRAP01
The "Quick Favor" Trap
Requests arrive via Slack, email, and Zoom. Because it feels too tedious to draft a formal change order for a 2-hour task, your team just does it for free.
Slack Request
"Can we add login?"
+6h (~$600 Unpaid)
Email
"Change the colors quickly"
+3h (~$300 Unpaid)
BLIND SPOT02
The Disconnect
Your team lives in Linear, not in your SOW. They build whatever tickets are dragged into the current sprint, whether the client has officially paid for that feature or not.
Budget Cap
CASH FLOW03
The Approval Bottleneck
The work is finished, but the invoice is delayed because the client's "final approval" is buried somewhere in a 40-message email thread. Your cash flow stalls.
Work DonePaid
JAN 15
MAR 15
How it works
One workflow. Six tools replaced.
From first draft to final invoice — Parallel runs every step of your client engagement. No tab-switching, no extra subscriptions, no manual handoffs.
01AI Architect
AI Architect · generating
Phase 1 · Discovery$4,200
Phase 2 · Design$8,800
Phase 3 · Build$18,400
Total · 3 phases$31,400
Draft your SOW
Upload discovery notes, a raw PDF brief, or paste an email thread. The AI Architect interviews your context and generates a structured SOW with phases, deliverables, user stories, and pricing — in minutes.
Replaces
Notion
Google Docs
Word templates
02Client Portal
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A
Acme CorpNo login neededSend to your client
Your client receives a magic link — no login, no signup required. They land on your white-labeled portal and see exactly what they're reviewing, in your branding.
Replaces
Email attachments
Loom
Status calls
03Built-in signatures
Phase 1 · Approved
EMAILsarah@acmecorp.com
IP203.0.113.42
SIGNEDMar 29, 2026 · 14:32 UTC
RECORDBINDING
Client signs off
One click approves the phase. Their email, IP address, and timestamp are captured as the legal record. No third-party e-signature subscription needed.
Replaces
DocuSign
DropboxSign
SignNow
Your scope is signed and locked. Now make sure it stays that way.
04Governor + Change Orders
Can we add a reporting dashboard before launch?
K1
That request is out of scope. I've drafted a change order.
Change Order #4$4,200
Reporting dashboard · 14h est.
Scope stays protected
Every out-of-scope request is captured, AI-analyzed for compliance, priced automatically, and queued for client approval before it ever enters your sprint.
Replaces
Email change requests
Manual change orders
Spreadsheet tracking
05Auto-invoicing
+$8,200/mo
recovered
AugSepOctNovDecJan
Invoice automatically
Phase approved. Invoice generated, populated, and sent in the same moment. Syncs to Midday for your bookkeeping — no copy-paste, no delay.
Replaces · Syncs with Midday
Harvest
Manual invoicing
PDF invoices
06Linear Sync
Sync to your workflow
Every approved deliverable lands in Linear as a billable ticket with user stories and acceptance criteria attached. Your team only builds what the client has already paid for.
Replaces
Spreadsheet sprints
Manual ticket creation
Jira
The math
Six tools. Dozens of hours. One broken system. Or one Parallel subscription.
DocuSign Business~$45/mo
Manual SOW writing4h/week
Untracked scope creep$8,200/mo
Change order admin6h/week
Your Clients Will Actually Love This
A white-labeled client portal that makes you look like a $10M agency — and gives you the paperwork to prove every billable hour.
Customizable Client Portal
Your clients see exactly what's happening, when it's happening.
client.runparallel.sh
Project Alpha
Overview
Scope
Invoices
Budget Usage
$42,500
of $50,000 cap
Pending Approvals
3 requests require your attention before work continues.
Mobile Auth Flow Adjustment
Linear #429Requested 2h ago
$850.00
6 hours
Marketing Assets Export
DesignRequested 5h ago
$225.00
1.5 hours
Live Linear Sync
Updates in real-time. No more "hey, what's the status?" Slack messages at 9 PM.
Frictionless Sign-Offs
Clients approve phase deliverables with one click, legally locking the scope and unlocking the next invoice.
Enforced Boundaries
Clients always know what's worked on, what's spent, what's left, and what comes next. As well as what costs extra.
Fully Customizable To Match Your Brand
Your logo, your domain, your brand colors. To the client, this is your proprietary internal tech. No Parallel watermark anywhere a client can see!
Real-Time Project Dashboard
Your clients see exactly what's happening, when it's happening.
client.runparallel.sh
Project Alpha
Overview
Scope
Invoices
Budget Usage
$42,500
of $50,000 cap
Pending Approvals
3 requests require your attention before work continues.
Mobile Auth Flow Adjustment
Linear #429Requested 2h ago
$850.00
6 hours
Marketing Assets Export
DesignRequested 5h ago
$225.00
1.5 hours
Live Linear Sync
Updates in real-time. No more "hey, what's the status?" Slack messages at 9 PM.
Frictionless Sign-Offs
Clients approve phase deliverables with one click, legally locking the scope and unlocking the next invoice.
Enforced Boundaries
Clients always know what's worked on, what's spent, what's left, and what comes next. As well as what costs extra.
Fully Customizable To Match Your Brand
Your logo, your domain, your brand colors. To the client, this is your proprietary internal tech. No Parallel watermark anywhere a client can see!
Our Story
We built Parallel because we were tired of working for free.
We're Stackk Studios— a software agency. And for years, we had the same problem every agency has: clients would Slack us "small" requests, we'd build them to keep the relationship warm, and nobody would ever send a change order.
One quarter, we sat down and counted. We had given away over $40,000 in untracked work across three projects. The clients were happy. We were not.
So we built Parallel — first for ourselves. We wired it into our Linear workflow, gave clients a portal to approve things, and made the AI handle the awkward "that's out of scope" conversation.
— The Stackk Studios team, builders of Parallel
Stackk Studios — Before & After
Before
After
$40k+ untracked work per quarter
$0 untracked work
3-day average invoice delays
Same-day on approval
40-message email threads
1 click to approve
Clients requesting work verbally
Every request is written & priced
$2.4M. Recovered. By agencies just like ours.
When we opened Parallel to other agencies, they started recovering margin immediately. On average, agencies claw back $8,200/month in previously untracked scope. We've seen teams cut invoice-to-payment time by 60% in their first month.
LinearIssues & sprints
MiddayInvoicing & books
SlackNotifications
JiraIssue tracking
Pricing
One plan. No surprises.
We priced it the way we wish SaaS tools were priced — one flat rate, everything included, no per-seat gotchas for your clients.
SCALE
$00 / month
FOUNDING RATE
- Unlimited seats (your team)
- Unlimited client guests — free forever
- Unlimited active projects
- 10 million Architect tokens (~500 page book)
- Linear sync (bi-directional)
- White-labeled client portal
- Priority onboarding
Currently in private beta. Founding agencies get this rate locked in forever and a personal onboarding call with the Stackk Studios team.
Ready to stop working for free?
We hand-onboard every founding agency ourselves. You'll be set up in Linear, your client portal will be branded, and you'll have your first SOW drafted by end of day. We cap early access spots — not as a gimmick, but because we do this personally.
Founding rate locked in forever • Personal onboarding from the Parallel team • No credit card to join