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Five ways into one delivery record. Each names a point where the plan, the hours and the money currently disagree.
Pick the disagreement you recognise. The product underneath is the same; what differs is which of the three you notice first.
Starting points, not editions. The software underneath every one of them is identical.
A construction firm and a software agency plan differently and fail identically: the plan is maintained for somebody else's meeting, so it stops being true by week three.
The change is that the plan is also the client view, the billing source and the capacity picture. Maintaining it stops being reporting overhead and becomes how the rest of the company finds out.
Margin is the evidence. When cost is approved hours at real rates against contracted value, a project going wrong is a week-three conversation rather than a post-mortem.
However you come in, the mechanism is the same: one record, read by whoever needs it next. What disappears is the work of keeping copies in agreement.
See the Loop journeys →If you bill time, read professional services. If you bill retainers, read agencies. If you bill variations, read construction — the mechanism is the same and the vocabulary is not.
The delivery teams page is the general case, argued from the plan rather than from the billing model.
No. They are five ways into Loop, described for different audiences. The features underneath are identical; what differs is which handover each kind of company feels first.
Then read the one whose failure you recognise rather than the one whose industry matches. The mechanism is the same, and the vocabulary is the easier half to translate.
No. Start with Loop and the one product on the other side of your worst handover. Each additional product is a switch rather than a second implementation.
Permissions are shaped by role, team and field — not by which licence somebody happens to hold. Nobody needs a second login to see the same customer.
Half an hour on your own numbers is usually enough to say whether Loop is the right place to start.