You're great at your work. But your hidden costs are destroying your margin.
ProjectMargin ties every minute, expense, fee and payout to the project it came from — so you can see which work pays, price the next one properly, and stop guessing at tax time.
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Current Net Asset
+$3,180.42
Margin
25.6%
> SYSTEM_LOG: Margin recovered at T+94 hours.
> ADVISORY: Current rate suggests 12% underpricing vs market avg.
> STATUS: Optimal for reinvestment.
$4.2k
Average margin leakage a solo operator recovers in their first cycle.
38%
Of creatives cannot verify net profitability on a single project line.
10m
To generate an audit-ready Schedule C summary from tracked ledger data.
Full Spectrum Visibility
We don't do general accounting. We run forensic audits on your projects, so you know exactly where your capital and your hours are going.
True Hourly Forensics
Net yield per project after platform fees, software overhead and every hour you actually worked — not the number on the contract.
Auto-Reconciliation
Upwork, Fiverr and bank feeds are parsed read-only and allocated to the right project code. No re-typing payouts.
Quarterly Reserve
Live estimated-tax liability with Schedule C categories, so April never turns into a liquidity crisis.
From operators who'd rather be making the work.
“I found a client I loved was quietly losing me money at 11% margin. Re-priced the next three projects and my year changed.”
Maya Delgado
Brand designer, solo · Brooklyn
“Two-person studio, flying blind for years. The per-project P&L ended every argument about which work was worth taking.”
Tom Okafor
Dev studio, 2 people · Chicago
“Quarterly reserve plus the Schedule C export halved my bookkeeper bill. It paid for itself in the first month.”
Lena Whitfield
Portrait photographer · Austin
Two plans. No surprise line items.
Both start with a 14-day free trial. Annual billing saves you three months of guessing.
$135 billed annually
- +Project setup with client, rate & estimated budget
- +Time tracking per project
- +Expense tracking with receipt upload
- +Income & payment recording per project
- +Project Profitability Dashboard
- +Basic tax prep report (P&L, Schedule C categories)
$225 billed annually
- +Everything in Starter
- +Upwork & Fiverr marketplace integrations
- +Bank & credit card reconciliation (read-only)
- +Quarterly estimated tax calculator & reminders
- +Simple invoice generation
- +Advanced insights incl. effective hourly rate
- +Client management (basic CRM)
The skeptical questions, answered.
How is this different from QuickBooks or FreshBooks?
They account for a whole business. ProjectMargin answers one question obsessively: which projects make money. No general ledger, no chart of accounts, no jargon you'd need a bookkeeper to decode.
Won't it bloat into another complicated tool?
A feature ships only if it moves your margin number or your tax number. If it doesn't answer 'am I making money on this?', it doesn't get built. That's the whole product rule.
$15–25 a month — will I actually feel the ROI?
One re-priced project usually covers a full year of Pro. Most operators find an underpriced engagement inside the 14-day trial, before they've paid anything.
Can I trust the numbers at tax time?
It was specced with a qualified accountant. Expenses map to Schedule C categories, quarterly estimates follow safe-harbour logic, and exports are 1099-ready. It prepares your figures — your CPA still files them.
Is ProjectMargin the right fit for my team?
If you're solo or a 1–3 person studio under $250K doing project work, yes. If you need payroll, inventory or full GL accounting for a 50-person agency, we'll happily point you elsewhere.
Know your worth before you quote the next project.
Your first project is set up in under five minutes. The uncomfortable truth arrives shortly after.
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