We've spent the last 17 years creating an ever-evolving system for job costing and project management within agencies and other project-based business.
We focus entirely on this area, driven by our goal to help our clients thrive. We're proud to say that many of our clients have become success stories within in the UK's exciting creative agencies sector, producing world-class design, digital, PR and marketing work every day.
We understand the complications and frustrations of running a business. What everyone really wants is for it to run smoothly, allowing them to focus on using their talents, be it an MD, Finance Director, Designer, Copywriter, Engineer, Architect, the list goes on. Synergist has been carefully crafted to support companies and individuals in their roles, allowing them to become more efficient, save time, make better decisions and gain better visibility of projects.
The Synergist team and the Synergist helpdesk are based in the UK in a delightfully converted cotton mill next to a canal in the hilly part of Cheshire, close to Manchester.
Synergist runs on the powerful 4th Dimension platform. 4D was the world’s first graphical database company, and is a name synonymous with the early Apple Macintosh community. Today it is a leading cross-platform relational database and web server with a presence in 70 countries, committed to both Windows and Apple operating systems and scalable from small-medium businesses to Fortune 500 international enterprises.
Synergist will help you uncover insights, issues and trends that mere project management software can't deliver on. Why is your hard-earned profitability leaking away? What unexpected inefficiencies are present? What sort of projects should you be aiming for?
With all your business intelligence in one place, you and
, gain financial control, steer your company and receive early warnings.
Business Development
Synergist also helps you track leads, ensure they are being followed up, manage to-do lists with email reminders and view the business pipeline.
Every day, thousands of people in creative agencies and other project-based businesses and consultancies rely on Synergist. They use it to manage their projects, track their time, inform their decisions, oversee their clients and drive their businesses forward profitably.
“Synergist has provided the backbone / infrastructure to assist with the changes in business process which were implemented to help focus the business in the right areas."
Synergist helps us to make huge decisions that we couldn’t do before. For example, we made a structural change as a direct result of the data provided by Synergist.”
When I look at the M.I. of our business every Monday, 100% of what I see is driven out of Synergist
We are now able to produce very accurate reports, which can highlight certain areas of activity and take the guesswork out of what is actually happening
Synergist is an amazing tool and we are absolutely delighted with the results.
The best thing about Synergist is the visibility it brings. It shows where the costs are, where the profits are on individual projects, and where the losses are – all giving you time to do something about it. And It’s the best support we have ever had from any company
Since implementation the performance and reliability of Synergist has been excellent and the browser interface has been well received by the creative and studio teams. However, it’s the level of service that really sets Synergist apart as a solution provider
Synergist has given us much better cost control over projects, and the information is live. Best of all, we get cost information phase by phase, helping us make sure we maintain margins. We’d recommend that firms should just do it as soon as they can. Bite the bullet
Implementing the Synergist software within a two month period has been straightforward and well supported by the Synergist team and helpdesk. We would not hesitate to recommend it.
Synergist gives us a real-time company-wide overview whenever we need it
Time is completely visible now. It’s helped us sell retainers, improve future estimating and quotes and a lot more. What it gives us is phenomenal. It’s given us efficiencies from beginning to end
Before our new system here we couldn't see which areas of our business we should most focus on. It's now crystal clear
It ’s helped us to cost jobs better. Previously we wrestled with very complex spreadsheets to work out the costings, and that’s all been replaced now. We’ve dumped so many spreadsheets!
