For productized studios and fixed-fee retainers
Squarepeggy is a time tracker built around your process, not your billable hours. See which stages run long, which clients have gone quiet, and where your team's week actually went.
Built and used daily at Resonant Pixel Co., a productized Squarespace studio.
PEGS STACK TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR BUSINESS
They hang everything off a project and end at a bill, because they assume hours are what you sell. When your price is fixed, time is the cost. Squarepeggy starts from the process you already run and tells you what each part of it really costs.
Great for billing hours. Silent on whether your process is working.
Your process on top. Every Peg rolls up to a stage, a task and a client.
Everything you need
Type a few letters of a client or one of their sites. Pick the task, add the time, paste the Trello card. Or start a timer and let it run.
Health is based on the last time a client asked for something, not on how busy you were.
Set up your stages and tasks once. Every new client runs the same playbook, and every Peg lands in the right place.
Mark each Peg as client-asked or pitched by you. Know who drives their site and who waits for you.
Sample data
See build work and ongoing care side by side for each person, before someone quietly burns out.
Brands with a family of websites stay one client. Pegs remember which site the work was for.
A Chrome extension puts Squarepeggy in the top bar of the Squarespace editor. Start a timer, pick the task and save the Peg while you're still on the page you're building.
How it works
Name your stages and tasks to match the way you already work, the same way you add your clients. Then give each task a target, or leave it at zero and let your Pegs set the baseline. Squarepeggy shows effort and calendar time for every stage, so you know which step to split, delegate or tighten.
Sample data. Stage names follow the Credibility Playbook; you can rename everything to match your own process.
When you know what your work really takes, you can give more of it where it counts. You quote with confidence, protect your margin and spot the moment to wow a client with something they didn't ask for. That's how a Squarespace freelance practice grows into the business you pictured, with your evenings and weekends still yours.
Compare every stage against its target and against itself over time. The slow step stops being a hunch.
Show a client exactly what you've built together, then nudge them with a story instead of a guess.
When you know what a build and a year of care really cost, your next fixed fee is a decision, not a gamble.
Right in Squarespace. Start a timer from the editor's top bar and save the Peg without switching tabs or losing your place.
