Arc — an Obsessed tool

The operating system
for creative agencies

Pipeline, revenue, projects and client communication in one place. Built inside a working film studio, for studios and the agencies they work with.

The problem

The work is in one tool, the money in another, the client in email, and the answer to “where is that project” is in someone’s head.

What it does

Revenue intelligence

The money you already earned and never billed

Arc reads your projects against your invoices: work delivered and never charged for, hours that went out unbilled, and jobs where the scope crept past the quote. Most agencies find that number out a year late, if at all.

Arc's revenue intelligence screen: £40,930.82 total at risk, split into £20,000 delivered but never invoiced, £13,690.82 of unbilled hours and £7,240 of scope creep, above the two uninvoiced projects and the two running under their target rate.
Revenue intelligence — leakage detection

Invoicing

Signed to sent without leaving Arc

A won deal becomes a project, a schedule and an invoice. Drafted, sent, overdue and paid sit on one screen, so chasing money is a list rather than something you remember in the shower.

Arc's invoices screen: £271,200.00 paid, with draft, sent and overdue totals, a bar of their shares of everything raised, and the two open drafts.
Invoices — status and ageing

Voice capture

Log the call on the walk back to the car

Talk to Arc and it files what you said against the right lead — a call logged, an invoice raised, a standup written, a question about your own numbers answered. Nobody types notes on a phone in a car park.

Arc's voice screen: a talk-to-Arc control with its keyboard shortcut, four modes — single commands, freeform brain dump, standup summaries and spoken reports — and example spoken commands.
Voice — commands and modes

Client portal

One link instead of a thread

Deliverables, approvals and invoices in one place the client can open. Your agency looks like it has an operations department.

How it works

  1. 01Lead

    Someone got in touch, or you found them. Nothing has been promised yet.

  2. 02Appointment

    A conversation is in the diary. This is where most pipelines quietly leak.

  3. 03Presentation

    You have shown them what you would do and what it costs.

  4. 04Sale

    Signed. Arc turns it into a project, a schedule and an invoice.

Arc's pipeline board, with deals across the four LAPS stages.

FAQ

Who is it for?
Studios and the agencies they work with. It was built to run a film studio, and nothing about it is specific to film.
What does it cost?
Pricing is on arc-crm.com, where it stays current.
Is my data shared with Obsessed?
No. Arc is hosted at arc-crm.com, and nobody here reads what is in your account. The data terms live in Arc's privacy policy, where they stay current.
Why does a film studio make CRM software?
Because we needed one and the ones we tried assumed a sales team we do not have.

See it running

arc-crm.com →