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Because the sale happens in one system and the delivery in another. Somebody reads the proposal, sets up a project, and retypes the scope — losing a caveat, a rate or a milestone on the way.
A project in Loop is the delivery record for work that was sold: its phases, tasks, people, hours and margin, opened from the deal that won it.
Winning a deal in Flow opens the project with its contracted lines, agreed rates and milestone dates already on it. The customer is the same record support and finance read, not a copy.
A client adds a workstream in month two. It is added as a phase against the same project, quoted at the contract rate, and the margin shows the effect before anyone commits to a date.
It will not deliver itself. It records the plan, the hours and the money against one another; the judgement about what to do when they disagree stays with a person.
Flow holds the contract and the relationship, Nest supplies the people and their cost rates, Books bills from delivered work and Desk sees the project when a ticket arrives about it.
Yes. Internal projects open directly, with no contract value and cost-only reporting.
Yes, where the work splits by workstream or by entity, and margin rolls up to the deal.
It closes, keeping its hours, margin and documents. Reopening is recorded.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.