A space you would actually send people to
Most studios have a client portal they apologise for. This is the other kind: your name on it, your colour, your typeface, and inside it a room for each person who works with you, with what they need laid out plainly and nothing to wade through.
Somewhere they will actually come back to
A client logs in to one engagement: theirs. It looks like your studio rather than like software, and it answers the three things a client actually wants to know: where the work is, what is coming, and what is needed from them.
- Where the project is, stage by stage, and what happens next
- Deliverables to review, approve or comment on, in one place rather than across an email thread
- The proposal they were sent and the exact terms they signed, always there to check
- What was agreed, in writing, so “we thought that was included” has an answer
- Your mark, your typeface, your colour. No badge, and no mention of Millstone.
They see their engagement and nothing of your others: not what the job cost you, not what you made on it, not who else you work with.
Part of the studio from the first day
A contractor booked onto a job sees the job. No induction pack, no “who do I ask”, no forwarding the brief for the third time. One login, and the work they are on.
- The projects they are booked on, with the brief, the tasks and the files
- Their agreement and their rate, signed in the browser and always there to check
- Time logged against the job, and a payment request raised from it. No invoice template, no chasing
- The tasks assigned to them, so “what should I be doing” is a list rather than a message
They see their jobs at their rate. Not the other contractors’ rates, not your client list, not the studio’s numbers.
All the work, none of the money
Everyone in the studio sees every project, deliverable, task and file, and the internal comments a client cannot. Invoices, costs, contractor rates and margins stay with whoever you make an admin, so the whole team can work in one place without everyone’s pay being a search away.
The whole studio, and who gets which room
An admin sees all of it: the work, the money, and the relationship between them, which is the point of having it in one place. And you decide who gets which of the rooms above.
None of these rooms is a screen that hides things. The rules live in the database, so a page that forgot to filter would still come back empty. An agent connected over MCP walks in as the person who connected it, not with a key of its own.
Tell us about your studio
Millstone is in early access. Places open a few studios at a time, and every studio is onboarded personally.