Agency operations, or the whole agency on one record
Productive is a well-built operations platform for agencies — budgets, resourcing, time, invoicing, profitability. AspirePro covers that and adds the support desk, the client's documentation, the relationship and the people.
Productive's home page leads with connecting your tools and reducing manual work: resources, projects and finances in one platform, with budgets and profitability front and centre and a long integration list. AspirePro's difference is what else lives on the client record — tickets with SLAs, Pro Cards, lifecycle check-ins, a health score, HR and recruiting — and a client portal where every ability is switched on per contact.
Which one fits
Choose AspirePro if…
You want support requests as tickets with SLAs, the client's setup documented beside them, a health score that says which accounts are drifting, HR and recruiting on the same people, and a per-seat price with a trial that needs no card.
Choose Productive if…
You are an agency whose operations are purely delivery and finance, you want Productive's budget and profitability views, and support, documentation and HR live elsewhere by choice.
What each one does
Productive's side is taken from its own website, checked September 20, 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we'll correct it.
| Capability | AspirePro | Productive |
|---|---|---|
| CRM & pipeline | ✓Pipelines, deals, sales email, meeting auto-log, outbound call blocks, HubSpot sync | ✓Sales pipeline |
| Quotes & proposals | ✓Catalogue-priced quotes accepted online with a typed signature; one-click conversion to agreement + invoice | ◐Budgets and estimates rather than a client-accepted quote flow |
| Projects & tasks | ✓Client projects with phases, tasks and budgets; kanban planners for internal work | ✓Projects, tasks and budgets |
| Resource planning | ✓Capacity heatmap, bookings, utilization, approved time off removed automatically | ✓Resource planning and scheduling |
| Time tracking & timesheets | ✓Timers and quick entries on tickets, tasks and projects; weekly timesheet approval before billing | ✓Time tracking and approvals |
| Retainers & agreements | ✓Retainers, fixed fee and T&M with included hours, families (MSA → SOW), rates per client, under-billing detector | ✓Retainer budgets |
| Invoicing & accounting sync | ✓Invoices from approved time and agreement fees; QuickBooks Online, Xero and Stripe | ✓Invoicing with QuickBooks, Xero and others |
| Client profitability | ✓Return on time per client and per agreement, in plain language with a give-or-take range | ✓Profitability and reporting |
| Service desk (tickets, SLAs) | ✓Boards, SLAs with pause statuses, email-to-ticket, rules, satisfaction surveys with review gating | –Not offered as a module on its site |
| Client documentation | ✓Pro Cards: typed client record cards you design, linked to tickets, fleet view across clients | –Not offered as a module on its site |
| Client lifecycle & health | ✓Lifecycle check-ins with attestation; client health score from six signals with drop notifications | –Not offered as a module on its site |
| HR & recruiting | ✓People directory, time off with accruals, reviews and 1:1s, recruiting (ATS) | ◐Time off; no HR or recruiting module |
| Client portal | ✓Default-deny client portal: each ability switched on per contact, for the boards and companies you allow | ◐Client access to projects; per-ability controls not described |
| AI assistant & MCP | ✓Prox assistant on every page and an MCP server with 350+ tools, acting under each person's permissions | ✓AI assistant, Agents and MCP connectors |
| Data isolation | ✓An isolated database per organization on every plan | ?Not described on its site |
What you get here that you don't there
A service desk in the same product
Client requests become tickets on boards with SLAs, email-to-ticket, rules and surveys — and the time logged on them reaches the same invoice as project time.
Documentation, lifecycle, health
Pro Cards, scheduled check-ins with attestation, and a health score with a notification on a drop.
HR and recruiting on the same team
Directory, time off with accruals, reviews and 1:1s, an ATS — the people who log time are the people in HR.
What each one costs
AspirePro
$7.99 per seat per month on Starter (projects, planners, tickets) and $14.99 on Professional (the full platform); two months free on annual billing. Client-portal users are free, every module is a switch, and the trial needs no card.
Productive
Productive's Essential plan is $9 per user per month billed yearly ($10 monthly) and Professional is $24 billed yearly ($25 monthly), with an Ultimate tier above; a free trial is offered (checked September 20, 2026).
Frequently asked questions
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Where the Productive facts come from
Bring your whole services business together
Stop stitching together five tools. Run sales, delivery, support, and billing from one organization — with an AI assistant on every page.