Company name: Anagram
Industry: Design
Size: 15
Anagram is a brand studio providing design, website, animation and branding services. Since 2014, the talented team has worked with companies across industries. We spoke with their founder, Emmanuel, about how Bonsai helps them run a profitable business.
Over the past 7 years, Anagram has leveraged Bonsai to streamline operations and scale their team from a solo operation to a thriving team of 15.
With Bonsai, Emmanuel manages the entire project pipeline from a single platform from project progress, to tracking time and budgets. The intuitive interface has made onboarding his new teammates into the system straightforward and efficient over the years.
This transparency is particularly important in Anagram's fully remote setting. As the team grew, time tracking became crucial for managing multiple projects simultaneously .
With Bonsai's timesheets, the team tracks and logs where their time is spent, allowing Emmanuel to see exactly how team members allocate their hours across various projects.
With the entire team tracking hours in Bonsai, Emmanuel gets real-time insights into project expenditures. This clarity keeps projects within budget, and allows Emmanuel and the team to address financial discrepancies promptly.
Conversations with clients around how much budget has been used up, and how many hours of the project are left can be sensitive. It can also take time to go through the project's history to understand what was done, and what's left.
With Bonsai, Emmanuel can show clients clearly when they risk going overtime, and it takes him a minute to get back to them when they have questions regarding the budget. This openness fosters trust and strengthens client relationships, contributing to Anagram's reputation as a reliable and professional design partner.